Randi: The Legends Continue

Morning Joe welcomed the AFT’s Randi Weingarten today with the John Legend/Deborah Kenney clip we’ve been playing - -and then asked her some tough questions about the union’s role in last week’s Albany debacle. You’ll recall that the UFT’s insistence on anti-charter “poison pills” produced a stalemate that failed to lift the state cap, thereby torpedoing NY’s chance at $700M in R2T funds. Take a look at Randi’s response, and then read the Daily News and Time Magazine coverage. Yes, the union supported an inadequate cap lift but in the name of “accountability” would have turned all charters over to the state’s weakest authorizer.  The AFT’s spin doctors can’t fix this one.