Randi Weingarten Fears Parents' Freedom to Choose

In Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy (Thesis, 2025) Randi Weingarten, the President of the American Federation of Teachers, exposes just how far union leaders will go in deluding themselves as well as the public. Rather than addressing the declining student proficiency in reading, math, and science, she attacks reformers who propose alternatives to traditional public schools. And rather than taking seriously the educational reformers' concerns, she resorts to the time-honored tradition of schoolyard bullies: name-calling.