Randi Weingarten claims teacher union members are indifferent about Department of Education being abolished

The American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said that her members are indifferent to the imaginable of the Department of Education being abolished.

In an interrogation with MSNBC connected Sunday, the person of the second-largest teachers national successful the state was asked to respond to President-elect Donald Trump's information of WWE co-founder Linda McMahon to pb the Department of Education. 

"My members don’t truly attraction astir whether they person a bureaucracy astatine the Department of Education oregon not," Weingarten said. "In fact, Al Shanker and the AFT successful the 1970s were opposed to its creation. We thought it should enactment wrong HEW (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare) due to the fact that of the full child."

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The American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten appears to beryllium unfastened to abolishing the Department of Education (ED).

Weingarten's comments came aft she raised interest implicit South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds, R., introduced authorities to destruct the department past week..

The bill, called the Returning Education to Our States Act, seeks to redirect the department's responsibilities to different national agencies specified arsenic the Departments of Interior, Treasury, Health and Human Services, Labor and State.

While Weingarten was indifferent to the abolition of the ED, she stressed the necessity for schools to person national funding.

"Look astatine Round's bill. What helium does is helium gets escaped of the wealth for mediocre kids. How bash you bash that? We request national dollars to level up accidental for children," Weingarten said.

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Corey DeAngelis, a elder chap astatine the American Culture Project, told Fox News Digital that Weingarten whitethorn person "misread the bill."

"Maybe she misread the bill. It sends the wealth backmost to the states successful the signifier of artifact grants to beryllium utilized for education," helium said. "Even a breached timepiece is close doubly a day. I'm gladsome Randi Weingarten and I tin hold connected 1 thing: it's clip to abolish the bureaucratic messiness that is the Department of Education."

He continued, "If adjacent Randi Weingarten is unfastened to the idea, hopefully immoderate Democrats successful Congress volition get connected committee with the bulk Party. The Department of Education is an unconstitutional discarded of clip and money. Let's get escaped of the bureaucracy and nonstop acquisition backmost to the states. That volition destruct discarded and let for much section control."

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., introduced a measure called the Returning Education to Our States Act to redirect ED's responsibilities to different national agencies specified arsenic the Departments of Interior, Treasury, Health and Human Services, Labor and State. (Getty)

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Trump signaled during the run that helium supports abolishing the department. He said that he’ll prioritize "closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sending each acquisition and acquisition enactment it needs backmost to the states."