AFT President Randi Weingarten At CFT 2016 San Francisco Convention

AFT president Randi Weingarten spoke at the California Federation of Teachers 2016 convention in San Francisco on March 12, 2016. She said she was worried about Trump and growing divisions in the US. While not mentioning the word privatization in education she said that the union would be fighting Pearson Inc which makes profits from testing by buying 40,000 shares of the company and going to their board meeting "across the pond" in England to pressure them to reform themselves. While discussing Clinton whom she and the AFT nationally support she said public education had been mentioned for the first time at the North Carolina debate. She did not discuss Hillary Clinton's ties to privatization and charters and also Eli Broad's support for Hillary Clinton.
She also attacked the Eli Broad foundation in Los Angeles but failed to mention that she and AFT had taken millions of dollars from the same foundations for non-profits run the by union and also paying salaries to union leaders. Eli Broad is also a big supporter of Hillary Clinton supported by Randi Weingarten.
Weingarten also previously had invited Bill Gates to a national convention of the AFT while Gates was pushing charters, testing and the common core throughout the country.
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AFT Weingarten's Candidate Hillary Clinton Paid By Jeb Bush's Union Busting For-Profit Education Company Academic Partnerships
It's all so cozy: a company partially owned by Jeb Bush paid Hillary Clinton $225,500 for a speech last year.
Hillary Clinton Paid by Jeb Bush’s Education Company
https://theintercept.com/2015/05/18/hillary-clinton-paid-jeb-bushs-education-company/
Lee Fang
May 18 2015, 12:00 p.m.
(This post is from our new blog: Unofficial Sources.)
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received nearly a quarter of a million dollars last year for a speaking engagement on behalf of Academic Partnerships, a for-profit education company in which Jeb Bush held an ownership stake and on whose board he served.
Clinton’s newly filed personal financial disclosure shows that she was paid $225,500 on March 24, 2014 by Academic Partnerships. At the invitation-only event in Dallas, Texas, Clinton reportedly said, “today a student doesn’t need to travel to Cambridge, Mass., or Cambridge, England, to get a world-class education.”
Academic Partnerships assists universities in converting their academic degree programs into online versions that can be taken by students around the world.
In 2011, Bush joined Academic Partnerships as an investor and as a paid advisor. He helped the company host multiple conferences and has appeared in online videos encouraging others to consider the Academic Partnership business model. Though he did not share the stage with Clinton, Bush spoke at the same conference.
Preparing for an expected bid for the Republican nomination for president, Bush resigned from Academic Partnerships in December.
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