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2023-05-01 10:24:43 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: B4A4A9296677BA55609C12F571C50D53EF575B6FE49C3F0042DA6D4404689E45
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This misrepresents Weingarten's prior positions. She called attempts to reopen schools in the fall of 2020 "Reckless, callous, cruel" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/17/trump-teachers-reopening-schools-coronavirus-randi-weingarten Her union pushed aggressively at the local level https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/how-teachers-unions-are-influencing-decisions-on-school-reopenings/2020/12 Areas with high union influence remained closed much longer https://www.returntolearntracker.net/instructional_status/ They continued in 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/08/us/teachers-unions-covid-schools.html
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