OXON HILL, Md. — Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said Thursday that she and the head of the second-largest teachers union in the country have agreed to tour U.S. schools together, after what DeVos said was a “great” conversation between the two.
“My conversation with Randi [Weingarten] was great,” DeVos said of the president of the American Federation of Teachers. “We’ve agreed to visit schools together. I will visit a school that she selects, a traditional public school. And she will visit a choice school,” which might be a public charter school, a private school that accepts government-funded vouchers or another form of school choice.
DeVos said it was imperative to find common ground with teachers unions.
When DeVos was blocked from entering a public school building in her first week as education secretary, Weingarten quickly came to her defense and condemned the protesters. “We don’t condone such acts,” Weingarten tweeted. “We want her to go to [public schools].”
Jason Russell is the contributors editor for the Washington Examiner.
