host: randy weingarten? guest: what a morning this morning. let me just say that i actually run a charter school. i started the charter school in the rocks. you may have heard about it because one of her kids was walking home a couple of weeks ago and was killed. on the streets of new york stop it's one of the best schools in new york city. charter schools were actually started by al shanker, one of my predecessors. what we wanted to do is to get out of the bureaucracy. what's happening with charters now is many of the people who are doing charters are supporting them and don't want them to compete with public schools as opposed to wanting to lift up all schools. what we want is to lift up all schools. that's number one, number two is the nea puts out a survey every year about teacher salaries. the average teacher salary in the country is about $41,000 which is about 20% less than what people could be making with the same skills in other jobs. you are right, those of us in new york really pushed when i was a teachers union president in new yor

host: randy weingarten, your reaction to the bill and the governor? guest: i have been a teacher and parent and a student advocate for a long time. parents obviously have not only rights to that they are there children's first teacher and they are there children's advocate and they have to do everything we can to support parents as they support their kids. the same is true in terms of teachers. we have to do everything we can to support teachers as they support children. you heard governor the real push by governor desantis. this is to divide parents and teachers and parents from schools. you heard him at the end of what he said which is he's really taking on children's freedom to be and to learn and what these bills are doing across america is stopping supporting us as teachers for eating the needs of kids, kids who come to us who may be a trans kid who trying to decide what their sexual identity is, what this bill does and i've read it, it basically threatens the teachers that the teacher can't actually engage the kid in conversation. a kindergarten

host: randy weingarten? guest: what a morning this morning. let me just say that i actually run a charter school. i started the charter school in the rocks. you may have heard about it because one of her kids was walking home a couple of weeks ago and was killed. on the streets of new york stop it's one of the best schools in new york city. charter schools were actually started by al shanker, one of my predecessors. what we wanted to do is to get out of the bureaucracy. what's happening with charters now is many of the people who are doing charters are supporting them and don't want them to compete with public schools as opposed to wanting to lift up all schools. what we want is to lift up all schools. that's number one, number two is the nea puts out a survey every year about teacher salaries. the average teacher salary in the country is about $41,000 which is about 20% less than what people could be making with the same skills in other jobs. you are right, those of us in new york really pushed when i was a teachers union president in new yor

. >> he must have gotten the memo from randi weingarten but it seems like some democrats like joe bidenvirginia. it's like he told terry mcauliffe, mr. i don't think parents should tell parents what to teach, hold my beer, i'm going to imply that the kids belong to the state. michael melis put it best when he said socialist regard your property as their property but even more variously, they regard your children as their property. it's time for parents to wake up, fight back and free their children from the clutches of the government school teachers unions once and for all and push for school choice policies that allow the money to follow the child and we won't have to have cultural war issues and is the only way to make the schools have incentive to listen to the needs of families as opposed to the other way around. kennedy: it takes a village, it does. hillary clinton told us, she won a grammy telling us it takes a village so it is a collective. i don't understand where your freedom enters into the picture. >> your kids don't belong to the government, government officials should stay

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we will be joined by randi weingarten and we will talk about what is going on with teachers in schools and parents rights and debates happening all over the country. mary in fort washington, you will pose. caller: i wholeheartedly oppose. where is all the republican party about where the money is coming from? i think we have given enough to ukraine. i do not believe that the war is going to be won by the ukrainians. russia will win and all of that money will be lost. we need to take care of the problems here. you need to put up that post from the peace corps about black people being treated in ukraine. the mainstream media, i don't think they are telling us the truth. they do a lot of had dined spending and do a lot of talking. all we need is facts. we need to make our own opinions. we need to take care of business here. where was the money for the pandemic? people are still sleeping in their cars. gas is still going out. we need the money here. host: the congress is trying to pass more money for the covid-19 response. president biden talked about that from the white house. you may be

they are not politicized like randy weingarten wants them to be.anti-teacher's union conversation, because every minute that they push critical race theory, gender ideology, it's a minute not spent of reading, writing, math and the rest and again it be one thing if we didn't have years of schools being closed because randy weingarten said so but now we have to ignore her and focus on the kids and get them the help they need and disregard all of this leftism. david: by the way it's one main reason why you move from new york city to florida. >> that's right. david: is that main reason, has that been satisfied, is the education you're getting for your kids much better now? >> absolutely. all three of my kids are in public school and they absolutely are getting a phenomenonal education in florida. the governor ron desantis' law here where it's gender ideology is not on third graders and below is extremely popular. i've met so many liberals who are like yeah, i don't want my kids learning about transgender issues in kindergarten, i'm sorry, no. i want m

here's the bottom line, when they say the decision is up to the cdc i want to call randi weingarten orited federation's of teachers. she pretty much decides. it's not just -- it's columbia university, american university, george washington university. 15-24-year-old 7.001% risk of dying, right? they are already starting at the colleges. he did that whole study at the university -- there are literally abusing the students. they're starting all over again with their antiscientific where the mass, we want to control you. let them keep doing it till november. is good for the republicans. >> we were talking about it in the green room. isn't there kind of an assumption that they are counting on the public not dying on the cell? nobody wants to get arrested on the plane so we'll just eat it. but isn't it possible that if poor rose decided were not putting on the mass -- mutiny at 35,000 feet. speak about all we need come another excuse for the plaintiffs not to fly. the meat take everybody off with the proposed compromise. speak only what the women on the viewer of the masks. >> i'm in. i'm f

we are back with randy weingarten from the american federation of teachers.et's begin with congress yesterday. the education secretary was testifying before lawmakers about presidents budget request for 2023. what did you hear that you liked from the education secretary? guest: the education

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choice at this moment and take this moment to align themselves as essentially taking orders from randi weingartens nuts. just look out across the country at the moment. parents showing up at school board meetings there's a recall in san francisco of liberal school board members for this is a top issue for parents. charter schools grew by 7% the number of kids they were educated because of the pandemic. you have seen a similar growth attendance of private schools showing her parents are fed up. and yet the next message that comes out of this white house is we are going to continue taking orders for the teachers unions. were going to give less a choice. in an election poll that is coming up is increasingly about issues that are very close to voters hearts and really animating. especially in areas like the suburbs which the biden administration democrats really need to win back some of those voters, this is just a terrible position to be taking. it would be very wise as we talk about what they can do. this is when to dial back up a. >> alright thank you all. we have to take one more break. when we c

it gets worse, failed far left teachers present randi weingarten, decades since she has seen the insidehe parental rights bills are "the way in which wars start." watch. >> it's this notion, and look where, you know, we have been very lucky in america and we in some ways live in a bubble for a long time, this is propaganda. this is misinformation. this is the way in which wars start. this is the way in which hatred starts. >> pete: this is how wars start? what does she mean? i wonder if anybody will actually ask her to explain that. but hold on a second. democrats are now in favor of corporate tax giveaways? and corporate handouts for big businesses? and also ask yourself why are democrats and their media allies so terrified of any semblance of transparency in the classroom? why are they so bent on to undermine parents and trying to sneak in there far left agenda under the guise of straight up education. because the state of florida has now released four more examples of critical race theory from textbooks that have been rejected from its school system. what me, racist, one example read

. >> randi weingarten from the american federation of teachers activism by telling fox quote it is clearlycations and it is not reflective of most parents whose school visits tell us approve of their kids' teachers and the jobs their schools are doing. democrats are also trying to harness this renewed energy in education issues. in virginia last week liberal groups accused governor glen youngkin of white washing history in a press call about curriculum change there bret? >> bret: mike, thank you. democratic senate candidate abby finken hour now will not be allowed on the iowa primary ballot in june a state court judge ruled her campaign did not comply with laws about obtaining signatures. the decision overturns a three member panel of state elected officials. finken knauer had been considered the party's best chance town seating incumbent republican senator chuck grassley. up next, the panel on the future of covid and how public policy may change going forward. first, beyond our borders tonight, pac stan's parliament elects opposition lawmaker shah ba shareef new prime minister follow as w

but it gets worse as failed far left teachers union president randi weingarten. it's been decades and she's actually seen the inside of a classroom is claiming that parental rights billss are quote the way in which wars start watch. i >> it's this notion and look where, you know, we've been very lucky in america and webb in some ways livele in a bubble for a long time. this is propaganda. this isga misinformation. this is the way in which war starts. this is the way in which hatred starts. h this isow how wars start. what she mean i wonder if anybody will actually asked her to explaino that . but hold on a second. democrats are now in favor ofrp corporate tax giveaways and corporate handouts for big businesses and also ask yourself why are democrats and their media alliescrat so terrified of any semblance of transparency in the classroom? why are they so hellbent on trying to undermine parents sneak in their far left agenda under the guise of straight up education?n. because the state of florida has now at least four more examples of critical race theory from tex

the president of the american federation of teachers randi weingarten and brandon judd talks about ending title 42. join the conversation with your phone calls, text messages and tweets. washington journal is next. on this vote, this nomination is confirmed. and with that ketanji brown jackson became a supreme court justice. now set to take the bench. the democrats won the seat just six weeks and they did it with the help of three republican votes. we will begin by getting your reaction to the confirmation and hear your thoughts on the future of the high court and the judicial process. for republicans it is (202) 748-8001, democrats (202) 748-8000, and independents (202) 748-8002 you can get us on social media http://twitter.com/cspanwj. you can start calling it now. here are some of the front pages. usa today with this headline. u.s. history is made, ketanji jackson is confirmed. after a close vote, in washington dc the city and which ketanji brown jackson was born. the front page of the miami herald, miami the city in which she was waste -- raise. calling it a supreme moment, the senate

the union head of the teachers randi weingarten speaking out against parental rights bills like in floridaon of their kids. brandon is a parent in loudoun county virginia running for congress. brandon, welcome to our program. i want to go back to what she said. the way in which wars start. i assume she is talking about cultural wars. >> actually, they've already invaded the classroom. so when you think about it, they colluded with the cdc, colluded with the doj and this administration on calling parents domestic terrorists. what you are seeing on top of that is they are pushing an agenda my kids, i have four kids under 10 years old. two in elementary school. they have sign permission slips for their snacks. they have to sign permission slips to go on field trips but no one is asking me for permission to talk about my son's penis. it is unacceptable and pushing indoctrination on the most innocent part of the population. >> bill: she said to us at foxnews.com, her statement. she said educators welcome parents' involvement in schools because our kids do best when teachers, parents and caregiv

later, the president of the american federation of teachers, randi weingarten, discusses education policy energy secretary jennifer granholm took questions from lawmakers on high oil and gas prices during a hearing on president biden's 2023 budget request. watch tonight at 9:30 eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org or full coverage on c-span now, our free video app. >> c-span's washington journal. every day, we are taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day and will discuss policy issues that impact you. , coming up saturday morning, -- coming up saturday morning, elon musk in the future of twitter. what his acquisition means for the country and issues of free speech. then, our graham for the exam special with teacher show john adams and another teacher who will discuss the upcoming advanced placement u.s. government exam. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning on c-span or c-span now, our free mobile app. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweets. >> on saturday, "daily show" host trevor noah headlines t

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