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The mole who calls herself a protector of teachers' rights continues to brazenly collude with the "reformers" and billionaires out to destroy public education in the good ole U.S.A..

Randi goes way back with the privatizers, even having worked with ol' Eli Broad in the early days of his superintendent "academy."

This woman, an attorney, is totally unqualified to run a teachers' union; she taught only five or six months as an actual teacher some twenty years ago.

In both cases, we have union presidents signing their names to documents alongside people who represent the antithesis of teachers' interests.

The Gates Foundation has absolutely zero credibility on the subject of teacher evaluation due to the pervasive role they have played in promoting the terrible policies now sweeping the nation. I entered my dialogue with them last year hoping they were prepared to shift their views in meaningful ways. When it ended, they gave little reason to believe they had done so. To co-author anything with their representative means you are lending credibility and standing to them.

She's a fraud who needs to be run out of the AFT.

Diane Ravitch also weighs in on Weingarten's treachery.