In an op-ed in today’s Daily News, AFT and UFT President Randi Weingarten takes on the teacher-bashing of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, and explains why American education needs political leaders, such as Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who will work with — rather than against — our nation’s educators.
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