Hi, my name is Jonathan Moller and I'm a staff writer for the New York Times magazine.

This story that I wrote for the magazine, and you'll hear it in a minute, is about the

most dangerous person in the world.

That's at least according to Mike Pompeo, as he said in an interview last year.

Remember, Mike Pompeo formally led the CIA.

He was also Donald Trump's secretary of state, so it was surprising when he didn't say

this person was somebody like Vladimir Putin.

Rather, he said this name, Randy Winegarten.

Randy Winegarten is a five-foot tall 60-something who lives with her wife, a rabbi, in Manhattan.

I know.

It's likely you've never heard of her, but she's the president of one of the largest and

most influential teachers unions in the country, the American Federation of Teachers.

So why does Pompeo consider her this incredibly powerful and malevolent force?

What has happened in America that a high-profile member of the last presidential administration

would single out this relatively obscure person as the most dangerous person in the world?

Some of public education has been pretty consistent over recent decades.

For one, our test scores as a nation are incredibly low, and so people say that public schools

aren't getting the job done, and perhaps that money would be better spent somewhere else,

like a charter school.

Then there's this moral criticism about the curriculum itself.

Some people don't approve of what public schools teach their children.

They would prefer to move them with the help of government vouchers into religious or

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