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Rafah reveals Hamas as evil, ‘equity’ is the new Marxism and other commentary

“The anti-Israel set is right about something for once: it is unconscionable that Rafah has been turned into a warzone,” thunders Brendan O’Neill at Spiked.

American Federation of Teachers' Randi Weingarten dishes on today's education system

NOW, how’s it happen that American Federation of Teachers’ Randi Weingarten is always in the headlines?

Teachers' unions should stop claiming credit for COVID classroom wins

The American Federation of Teachers and Chicago Teachers Union are falsely insinuating they got kids back into classrooms during COVID.

Teachers' union boss blames math test slide on COVID — after fighting to keep remote learning

AFT President Randi Weingarten tangled with Presidents Trump and Biden over plans to fully reopen schools in 2020 and 2021 — and now blames COVID for the slump in math...

Florida teachers’ union accused of strong-arming educators to join in effort to boost lagging numbers

An American Federation of Teachers-affiliated union in Miami-Dade County, Fla., has been hit with a pair of complaints accusing officials of coercing educators to join up in a bid to...

Israel’s breaking narrative, Biden’s open-borders pain and other commentary

“Israel’s much anticipated raid on Gaza” should “reset many people’s prior assumptions about the IDF’s war conduct — and Hamas’s,” argues Commentary’s Seth Mandel.

Randi Weingarten slammed online for question about Jewish prayer: 'Moron'

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten was slapped with an X community note after asking where the "women" were during an all-male Jewish prayer service.

Teachers unions only have themselves to blame for rise in home-school numbers

In the clearest possible thumbs-down on the entire American educational establishment, homeschooling is booming.

Union boss Weingarten thinks you're a racist if you want good schools for your kids

Randi Weingarten is now backpedaling something she previously said claiming that she was just making an innocent comment about “language” rather than actually accusing anyone of being racist.

Teachers union honcho likens parental rights, school choice supporters to segregationists 

National teachers union boss Randi Weingarten likened the rhetoric of supporters of school choice and parental rights initiatives to that of segregationists.

Why we can't let Gavin Newsom, Randi Weingarten forget their lockdown failures

Liberal leaders like California's Gov. Gavin Newsom and American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten are trying to conveniently forget their lockdown failures — but the public shouldn't let them.

Biden sold out to teacher union head Randi Weingarten after vowing to reopen schools during COVID: book

President Biden caved to teachers unions during the COVID-19 pandemic and broke a campaign promise to get kids back in school within his first 100 days in office.

BFFs Randi and Rochelle proved to be our children's worst enemies

February 2021 texts show how completely then-CDC chief Rochelle Walensky was in American Federation of Teachers boss Randi Weingarten's pocket.

Outgoing CDC chief to testify before House COVID panel over who pushed mandates

Walensky will testify about the influence nongovernmental groups such as teachers unions had over public health mandates during the outbreak.

Teachers federation president hit with subpoena threat by House COVID subcommittee

The AFT president Randi Weingarten failed to disclose communications between the teachers’ union and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on reopening schools in early 2021.

AFT president scores $15K annual teacher's pension — despite teaching for only a few years

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten has accrued a potential six-figure, taxpayer-funded New York City pension during her more than a decade as head of the teachers union’s local...

Randi's COVID mistruths: Letters to the Editor — May 2, 2023

The Issue: A scientist who criticized Randi Weingarten for misrepresenting facts to argue for school closure. Finally the truth is told (“Twisted by Randi,” April 29). Our poor kids are...

Randi Weingarten misrepresented COVID study to Congress, author claims

An epidemiologist blasted teachers union chief Randi Weingarten -- saying she fudged a scientific study to wrongly argue to Congress that schools should have been kept closed during the height...

Randi's political power: Letters to the Editor — April 28, 2023

Post readers sound off on a House hearing on federal guidelines that prolonged school closures during the pandemic.

How parents can stop teachers unions' legalized anti-kid thuggery

If thugs were hurting your kid, you’d do almost anything to stop them. The harm the teachers unions inflict is legalized thuggery.