Can Education Recover From Covid?
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Randi Weingarten is the President of the 1.7 million member American Federation of Teachers. She is in a unique position to know what happened to our schools during the pandemic and what needs to be done to recover from the "lost school year." Which isn't even over, now. She has a few choice words for Trump and Trump's Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, good to see you, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 0:11.0 | Can you believe it? We're now almost a year into a pandemic that Donald Trump said was going to disappear overnight. |
| 0:19.0 | There are countless victims of COVID-19, first and foremost, the 300,000 |
| 0:24.7 | Americans who died from the disease and the 300,000 families broken by it. The 15 million-plus |
| 0:32.0 | Americans who have suffered through or are still suffering from the coronavirus, and our healthcare workers, doctors, nurses, |
| 0:39.3 | and other frontline workers, police, firefighters, security, who didn't have the luxury |
| 0:45.3 | of staying home and self-isolating. And among those who've been hurt the most are those involved |
| 0:51.3 | with our schools, teachers who've had to invent a whole new way of informing |
| 0:57.2 | and inspiring students. Parents who've had to juggle working from home with monitoring online |
| 1:03.9 | schoolwork and most of all our children who've already lost almost a whole year of vital classroom instruction and may lose |
| 1:14.2 | most of next year as well. When and how can we ever get our schools back on track? For answers today, |
| 1:22.5 | we turn to Randy Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers. |
| 1:29.9 | Randy, it's good to see you again and talk with you again. |
| 1:32.5 | It's always great to see you, Bill. |
| 1:33.3 | How are you? |
| 1:34.0 | I'm great. |
| 1:34.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:37.0 | I hope you and the rabbi are doing well. |
| 1:37.9 | We are. |
| 1:40.4 | We're, you know, thank God we're safe. |
| 1:43.5 | It, yes, all of us. |
| 1:48.5 | It is an exciting time, and you had played an exciting role here. Before we get into the state of our schools and what we can look forward to, I have to ask you, as an elector from |
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