Posted on 05/18/2021 2:54:50 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Randi Weingarten said: '[The CDC] asked us for language and we gave them language'
Randi Weingarten, president of the largest teachers union in the U.S., on Tuesday said the Biden administration's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "asked for language" in its school reopening guidelines.
The CDC guidelines released in February, while not in complete alignment with union demands with the inclusion of language saying COVID-19 vaccines are optional for educators teaching in-person and students must be 3 feet apart rather than 6, still included some verbatim wording from the American Federation of Teachers, according to documents obtained by The New York Post.
"This is normal rulemaking, frankly," Weingarten told C-SPAN when asked about the Post's report. "This is what every administration used to do. The problem with the last administration didn't do it."
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Buck passing? Or bullet ducking?
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