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Randi Weingarten

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The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

who are basically selling their foodstuffs to USAID because they don't have a market in the United States, they're not going to be able to do that. And the same is true in terms of education. If you fire everybody or you make it non-feasible for it to work, then none of the laws that are supposed to be affected or effectuated by the department will work. So

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

who are basically selling their foodstuffs to USAID because they don't have a market in the United States, they're not going to be able to do that. And the same is true in terms of education. If you fire everybody or you make it non-feasible for it to work, then none of the laws that are supposed to be affected or effectuated by the department will work. So

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

who are basically selling their foodstuffs to USAID because they don't have a market in the United States, they're not going to be able to do that. And the same is true in terms of education. If you fire everybody or you make it non-feasible for it to work, then none of the laws that are supposed to be affected or effectuated by the department will work. So

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

If Title I is supposed to go to like Truman High School or to a high school in Staten Island, and there's supposed to be $5 million that goes there, and all of a sudden it doesn't, and they don't have the money, then that means the programs go away.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

If Title I is supposed to go to like Truman High School or to a high school in Staten Island, and there's supposed to be $5 million that goes there, and all of a sudden it doesn't, and they don't have the money, then that means the programs go away.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

If Title I is supposed to go to like Truman High School or to a high school in Staten Island, and there's supposed to be $5 million that goes there, and all of a sudden it doesn't, and they don't have the money, then that means the programs go away.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

So that means the reading programs, the computer programs, the after-school programs, all the programs that are funded by Title I, and every school teacher in America understands what that means. They go away. The same in terms of the programs for kids with disabilities under IDEA.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

So that means the reading programs, the computer programs, the after-school programs, all the programs that are funded by Title I, and every school teacher in America understands what that means. They go away. The same in terms of the programs for kids with disabilities under IDEA.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

So that means the reading programs, the computer programs, the after-school programs, all the programs that are funded by Title I, and every school teacher in America understands what that means. They go away. The same in terms of the programs for kids with disabilities under IDEA.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

If a school system or a school, because these things go directly to schools, if the funding goes away, a kid doesn't get physical therapy or occupational therapy. And to your point about red states versus blue states, more of this money goes to red states. So I've said to our folks in red states in particular, go to your school board because states and localities run schools.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

If a school system or a school, because these things go directly to schools, if the funding goes away, a kid doesn't get physical therapy or occupational therapy. And to your point about red states versus blue states, more of this money goes to red states. So I've said to our folks in red states in particular, go to your school board because states and localities run schools.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

If a school system or a school, because these things go directly to schools, if the funding goes away, a kid doesn't get physical therapy or occupational therapy. And to your point about red states versus blue states, more of this money goes to red states. So I've said to our folks in red states in particular, go to your school board because states and localities run schools.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

Go to your school board. Ask them what's going to happen. How much money are we going to lose if we don't have Title I? If we don't have IDEA and how is that money going to be replaced? Is it going to be property taxes raised in Jackson, Mississippi? Is it going to be property taxes raised in Montgomery, Alabama? How are we going to have that funding that helps kids in schools?

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

Go to your school board. Ask them what's going to happen. How much money are we going to lose if we don't have Title I? If we don't have IDEA and how is that money going to be replaced? Is it going to be property taxes raised in Jackson, Mississippi? Is it going to be property taxes raised in Montgomery, Alabama? How are we going to have that funding that helps kids in schools?

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

Go to your school board. Ask them what's going to happen. How much money are we going to lose if we don't have Title I? If we don't have IDEA and how is that money going to be replaced? Is it going to be property taxes raised in Jackson, Mississippi? Is it going to be property taxes raised in Montgomery, Alabama? How are we going to have that funding that helps kids in schools?

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

Well, number one, the... We've been filing lawsuits on a timely basis when we see an action that we think we can, that we need to raise ruckus about. And so... It's it's both the court, but it's the court of public opinion that is as I mean, the courts are important. You and I are both lawyers. The courts are really important. The rule of law is really important.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

Well, number one, the... We've been filing lawsuits on a timely basis when we see an action that we think we can, that we need to raise ruckus about. And so... It's it's both the court, but it's the court of public opinion that is as I mean, the courts are important. You and I are both lawyers. The courts are really important. The rule of law is really important.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

Well, number one, the... We've been filing lawsuits on a timely basis when we see an action that we think we can, that we need to raise ruckus about. And so... It's it's both the court, but it's the court of public opinion that is as I mean, the courts are important. You and I are both lawyers. The courts are really important. The rule of law is really important.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

And and and we have an obligation to actually make sure that democracy, that that we don't lose the republic. Sorry for being so. you know, for being so emotional about this. So the courts are really important because they basically are the umpire. They call balls and strikes. But it's a court of public opinion, as well as the Congress, that we have to work with as well.

The MeidasTouch Podcast
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Trump Threats to Gut the Department of Education

And and and we have an obligation to actually make sure that democracy, that that we don't lose the republic. Sorry for being so. you know, for being so emotional about this. So the courts are really important because they basically are the umpire. They call balls and strikes. But it's a court of public opinion, as well as the Congress, that we have to work with as well.