Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, ripped American Federation of Academics President Randi Weingarten on Monday after she declared her assist for “amnesty” for selections made in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic that closed faculties and contributed to widespread studying loss.
Weingarten, who championed pandemic-related faculty closures and lobbied the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention to undertake lecturers union-preferred language for reopening steering, mentioned she agreed with a controversial article in The Atlantic arguing for “pandemic amnesty.”
“Treating pandemic decisions as a scorecard on which some folks racked up extra factors than others is stopping us from shifting ahead,” the article argued.
“I agree,” Weingarten tweeted on Monday, which provoked a heated response from the Texas senator.
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American Federation of Academics President Randi Weingarten speaks to the press.
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“Now Randi is saying, ‘please don’t blame me for shutting down faculties for a yr & hurting tens of thousands and thousands of youngsters. Simply neglect about it.’ Hell NO,” he mentioned.
Weingarten additionally obtained a barrage of condemnation from others who blamed her for combating to maintain faculties closed longer than they wanted to be.
“You have been 100% fallacious on shutdowns and refuse to apologize for it. When you had any decency in any respect, you’d resign for presiding over the best American schooling failure of our lives,” Outkick’s Clay Travis mentioned.
Actor Nick Searcy accused Weingarten of “spoil[ing] extra kids’s lives than the Grinch.”
Simply the day earlier than, Weingarten was referred to as a “backpedaling hack” for tweeting that “everybody” suffered in the course of the pandemic after a report revealed drastic declines in studying and math check scores.
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The Nation’s Report Card mentioned final week that math scores noticed their largest lower ever in 2022, whereas studying scores dropped to the bottom stage since 1992 for fourth and eight graders nationwide.
“The underside line is everybody suffered within the pandemic… due to the pandemic. The disruption was all over the place, and it was dangerous no matter whether or not faculties have been distant or in particular person. We’re centered now on the pressing want to assist children get well and thrive,” Weingarten tweeted.
A ten-year-old and 7-year-old in Texas attend faculty nearly in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A September report from the Division of Schooling additionally confirmed a dramatic decline in check scores attributed to highschool closures and failed on-line studying.
“Common scores for age 9 college students in 2022 declined 5 factors in studying and seven factors in arithmetic in comparison with 2020,” the report mentioned. “That is the biggest common rating decline in studying since 1990, and the primary ever rating decline in arithmetic.”
Fox Information’ Hannah Grossman, Timothy H.J. Nerozzi and Stephen Sorace contributed to this report.
