Randi Weingarten deserves the fury of parents across the nation

American Federation of Teachers honcho Randi Weingarten’s sudden outrage over Team Trump’s plan to abolish the federal Department of Education is simply about losing her own power and influence — not any risk to the kids.America’s “competitors — and adversaries — are no doubt cheering President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the U.S.Department of Education,” Weingarten asserts in an MSNBC column, pretending the DOE “helps give all children in the United States access to the great public school education they deserve.”Nonsense: Few kids in America have “access” to “great public school education”; we lag our peers badly in international testing.“A gutted department would mean fewer teachers, more crowded classrooms and increased mental health and behavioral challenges for students,” she lies.

“We’d most likely see increased absenteeism and decreased graduation rates.”Hello? The bloated public-education bureaucracy diverts resources away from classrooms even as it burns cash on bogus approaches to behavioral issues, such as woke “restorative justice” to replace actual school discipline.And chronic absenteeism nearly doubled nationwide from 2018 to 2022, thanks to Randi’s COVID closures.As for graduation rates: The favored teachers-union approach is to raise them by reducing requirements and eliminating any role for standardized tests.She charges Team Trump with “diverting billions from our children,” but the plan is to divert it from the unions and their pet educrats — so it actually goes to educating kids.AFT founder Albert Shanker was famously more honest: “When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.”A career union shill who barely taught in an actual school long enough to call herself a “teacher,” Randi Weingarten doesn’t give a damn about the children, and now America’s parents are onto her.It’s a pleasure to watch her powe...