AFT Chief Weingarten to Mayor Emanuel: “Shame on you”

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten blasted Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday for closing Chicago schools, saying he was not “walking the walk” Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders would have wanted.

“Shame on you,” Weingarten said.

Weingarten, chief of a union with 1.5 million members, talked about Emanuel and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nuter—who she also scorched for school closings—in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times in advance of her remarks at the Lincoln Memorial commemoration marking the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington.

“I have a big message for both Mayor Emanuel and for Mayor Nutter, which is, what my 11th graders used to tell me when I taught at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn, New York,” Weingarten said.
“They used to say, ‘Miss Weingarten, you can’t just talk the talk. You must walk the walk.’ Walking the walk means that you start investing in schools, not closing them, that you stabilize neighborhoods, not destabilize them.

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