Today's cover: Randi Weingarten, teacher’s union helped coordinate CDC’s 2021 school reopening guidance, records reveal
The records show Walensky took a call from Weingarten on Feb. 7, 2021, five days before the CDC released its “Operational Strategy for K-12 Schools Through Phased Mitigation.”
The last request from the unions via McIntee was more prosaic: “They’d like to be able to either tweet during or after about the meeting.”Another email from the evening of Feb. 11, 2021, reveals the CDC following up with Weingarten and NEA President Becky Pringle after each had phone calls with Walensky the night before the guidance came out.
“While both Walensky and Weingarten have tried to mislead the public, their emails and phone logs tell the real story. “The strength of this guidance resulted in 99 percent of schools being open and children being in the enriching environment of a classroom during the delta surge in the fall of 2021.”In her prepared testimony, Weingarten will say Wednesday’s hearing is based on a “faulty premise.”
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