The 15-year president of the American Federation of Teachers, a major source of Democratic Party fundraising and foot soldiers, has the CDC director’s direct phone number. A Republican member of Congress on two committees with CDC jurisdiction does not.
Randi Weingarten played metaphorical pickleball with Republicans at a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic hearing Wednesday on AFT’s role in developing CDC guidance that led public schools to remain closed long after much of Europe reopened schools with few of the “layered mitigation” measures AFT demanded, particularly 6 feet of distance between students.
Subcommittee Republicans, then in the minority, released a report a year ago finding the CDC skirted “customary scientific processes” in giving AFT access to draft guidance for suggested edits.
The union successfully added a “trigger” to automatically shut down schools if transmission hit a certain level, and got a sentence removed that said all schools can remain in-person […]
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