AFT’s Weingarten defends teacher union’s influence over CDC school guidance on COVID lockdowns

Randi Weingarten, head of the nation’s second-largest teachers’ union, said educators were “terrified” during the COVID-19 crisis but rejected claims she strong-armed Biden officials to keep schools closed for longer than necessary in early 2021, drawing a rebuke Wednesday from House Republicans who said the advice was designed to keep kids home.

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