...from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten. I think it goes without saying that she doesn’t like it. I can practically hear the sarcasm when she refers to Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein as McCain’s “new best friends.”
Read Alyson’s detailed post about what sparked Weingarten’s reaction—McCain’s endorsement of the Education Equality Project and his criticism of Obama—here.
A version of this news article first appeared in the Politics K-12 blog.
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