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Sunday, January 8, 2017

AFT President Weingarten to Give Major Education Speech Livestreamed On Facebook

AFT President Weingarten to Give Major Education Speech:

AFT President Weingarten to Give Major Education Speech

WASHINGTONJan. 6, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With the nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education, President-elect Donald Trump has signaled that the one bipartisan consensus on public education—the Every Student Succeeds Act—should be ignored, choosing instead the most anti-public education nominee ever appointed to that office, evidently wishing to reignite the education wars of the last two decades.

AFT President Randi Weingarten will give a major address next Monday on what America's students need to succeed and the destructive pitfalls of an anti-public education agenda. The speech comes two days before DeVos' scheduled confirmation hearing.

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WHAT: Major speech by AFT President Randi Weingarten
WHEN: Monday, Jan. 911 a.m.
WHERE: National Press Club, First Amendment Lounge
529 14th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 


RSVP: Email Janet Bass at jbass@aft.org


The speech will be livestreamed: www.facebook.com/aftunion
Follow AFT President Randi Weingartenhttp://twitter.com/rweingarten
Contact:Janet Bass202-879-4554jbass@aft.orgwww.aft.org