At the Education Writers Association conference in Baltimore today, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos drew a gulp from the crowd when she said, “Great teachers should be making at least half as much as Randi Weingarten does at a half a million dollars a year.”
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Weingarten, president since 2010 of the American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s second largest union for K-12 public school teachers , has repeatedly attacked DeVos, and the Secretary has returned fire., Weingarten called DeVos an “ideologue who wants to destabilize and privatize the public schools that millions of Americans value and rely upon.” DeVos countered that Weingarten and her union “care more about a system, one created in the 1800s, than they do about individual students.
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