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Report: Nation’s Second Largest Teachers Union Influenced CDC On School Reopening Guidelines, Delayed Return To Classrooms

Emily Zanotti
Report: Nation’s Second Largest Teachers Union Influenced CDC On School Reopening Guidelines, Delayed Return To Classrooms
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The American Federation of Teachers, led by Randi Weingarten, appears to have lobbied the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep schools shuttered amid the coronavirus pandemic and “even suggested language for the federal agency’s school-reopening guidance released in February,” according to a Saturday report from the New York Post, based on emails between the AFT and CDC.

“The powerful teachers union’s full-court press preceded the federal agency putting the brakes on a full re-opening of in-person classrooms, emails between top CDC, AFT, and White House officials show,” the Post reported Saturday.

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