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The Chief of the Union of Teachers, Randi Weingarten, says that he is concerned that closing the closure of the Department of Education It could be as harmful to students as school closures were during Covid.
Thursday, President Donald Trump He signed an executive order that instructed the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, who begins the process of closing the department.
The Executive Order McMahon asked “Take all the necessary measures to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the United States, while continuing to guarantee the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs and benefits in which Americans trust.”
“You know, it can eviscerate an apartment saying goodbye to its people, closing a web service or an online service,” said Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Masters (AFT), on Friday about Balance of Power “of Bloomberg.
Department of Education significantly dismantled in Trump’s new executive order
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signs an executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Department of Education together with school children who sign their own versions, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. ((Photo of Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images))
“And so, what I don’t want is that I don’t want it, so it closes so many ways that children are really injured. And then someone says: ‘Wow, we didn’t want to do that.’ Children pass through the kindergarten once,” Weingten added. “We saw during Covid the long -standing problems that occurred when schools closed too much time. We have to make sure to do this right for children.”
Weingarten, AFT and the unions of other teachers have been criticized for years for their reactions to the Coronavirus pandemic and the reluctance to reopen schools.
In July 2020, Weingarten criticized the guidelines of the Trump administration to reopen schools in the autumn of 2020 as “reckless”, “insensitive” and “cruel.” He later asked Congress more federal funds for schools and threatened a strike if they reopened without implementing expansive safety precautions such as mask mandates, 6 -foot social distancing requirements (above the recommended distance of 3 feet of the CDC at that time) and updated ventilation systems.
ELECTRONIC POST OF FEBRUARY 2021 It was shown that AFT had successfully pressed the centers for disease control and prevention to be more cautious in their guidelines for school openings.
The president of the American Federation of Masters Randi Weingarten seemed to have contradictory thoughts regarding the Department of Education. (Photo: MSNBC screen capture)
The reading skills of US students have continued to decrease since COVID-19 pandemic, while their mathematical skills have barely improved in the last two years, according to the “Nation ratings,“The National Educational Progress of 2024 (NAEP) published by the Department of Education in January.
“Today’s results reveal a heartbreaking reality for American students and confirm our worst fears: most students not only recovered from the loss of learning related to pandemic, but those students who were further back and needed the greatest support have further further back,” said the Department of Education in a statement. “Despite the billions of dollars that the federal government invests annually in K-12 education, and the approximately $ 190 billion in Federal Pandemic funds, our educational system continues to fail students throughout the country.”
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On a Wednesday Press release, The AFT said that the dismantling of the Department of Education is “a movement that most people in the United States do not want to decrease the opportunity for students.”
Weingarten suggested that he will sue the Trump administration with an appointment in the press release that said: “See you in court.”
