AFT’s Weingarten: ‘We Knew that Remote Education Was Not a Substitute for Opening Schools’

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WEINGARTEN: “I’m sorry, Congressman Raskin. I’m just — we spent every day from February on trying to get schools open. We knew that remote education was not a substitute for opening schools. But we also knew that people had to be safe. And maybe it’s because I live in New York City, I live near a hospital, every other minute there was an ambulance. There was terror. Our members were terrified. Others were terrified. And what we were simply looking for was clear scientific guidance. And when we couldn’t get it, we did it ourselves and we worked with doctors and we worked with others, and we just tried to get it out there.”