Video: Weingarten, Klein “Up Close”

On Sunday, Feb. 8, Randi Weingarten and Joel Klein appeared in separate segments of “Eyewitness News Up Close with Diana Williams.”

Weingarten discussed the union’s cost-cutting proposals (a hiring freeze, retirement incentives, and reduction of administrative costs), mayoral control of schools, and Gov. Paterson’s consideration of Weingarten for the recently open senate seat.

Klein was up next, and Williams had him address the union’s budget proposals (Klein would rather lay off ATRs than freeze hiring), rubber rooms (“the city’s Guantanamo,” according to a parent-activist quoted by Williams), public-private partnerships, and AP scores.

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