Randi Weingarten changes her tune about nixing Dept of Education, after claiming members really ‘don’t care’

Randi Weingarten is changing her tune and has decided she’s “really angry” about the demolition of the Department of Education.

The teacher’s union president came out swinging after President Trump signaled he’ll be following through on his promise to abolish the failed department.

Weingarten laid it on thick in a recent MSNCC interview, attempting to pull at emotional heart strings while ignoring the facts and stats that show millions of American children have been robbed of good educations since the implementation of the federal takeover in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter.

Weingarten argued that the Department of Education is critical for funding underachieving areas through programs like Title I, and further defended the Disabilities Education Act and DEI initiatives.

“It’s so we can create that ladder of opportunity,” Weingarten said of DEI. “It’s so we can make sure that kids can succeed. Poor kids, kids with disabilities, kids who want a career, tech ed, kids who are first generation college goers to get some scholarship money. That’s what the Department of Education does.”

An increasingly agitated Weingarten then whipped out one of Democrats’ tired talking points of greedy “billionaires” using changes to benefit themselves and their families.

“That is why so many people are so mad about it,” she insisted. “Because they’re just taking opportunity away from kids that don’t have it. So billionaires – kids of billionaires, they have it, they go to private schools. Everyone else, 90% go to public schools. Don’t take away their opportunity.”

“Sorry, I’m really angry about this. I’m really angry,” Weingarten said.

Interestingly enough, Weingarten offered a very different take on the subject when she was asked shortly after President Trump’s election about his campaign promise to eliminate the Department of Education.

“I mean, my members don’t really care about whether they have a bureaucracy of the Department of Education or not,” Weingarten said during an appearance on MSNBC, Fox News Digital reported. “In fact, Al Shanker and the [American Federation of Teachers] in the 1970s were opposed to its creation.”

That’s quite a leap in a couple of weeks!

“It’s the cuts to programs we are very upset about- the cuts directly to programs that affect children with disabilities and children who are poor,” Weingarten explained to Fox Digitial about her sudden anger.

Meanwhile, Corey DeAngelis, a school choice advocate, ripped Weingarten for her emotional MSNBC outburst.

“Why wasn’t Randi Weingarten angry about years of school closures in union-controlled districts?” DeAngelis rhetorically asked Fox.

“Why wasn’t she angry about the latest Nation’s Report Card scores showing decades of learning loss? Her priorities are all messed up. She sees the school system as a jobs program for adults instead of an education initiative for kids.”

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