Test scores continue to plummet, and our kids are falling further behind academically. Urban school systems are churning out failure on a massive scale, instead of basic literacy and math.
 
This weekend, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), addressed her union’s annual convention in Washington, D.C. Her remarks could have been delivered at the Democrat National Convention. It wasn’t about children. It was pure hard-left politics.
 
Weingarten began her remarks with class warfare, railing against billionaires. Next, she blasted the Supreme Court and bragged about her union’s 25 lawsuits against the Trump administration.
 
Then, Weingarten attacked President Trump, labeling him an “authoritarian” and a “fascist,” and promised her union would launch its “most ambitious election program ever.” Weingarten will spend tens of millions of teachers’ union dues, not helping children, but electing the most radical, left-wing Marxists to ever run for Congress.
 
The AFT’s extremism was on full display. They rammed through more than 30 resolutions on all kinds of issues. Of course, they condemned school choice. Marxists aren’t big on choices. You get one choice—the government’s choice.
 
They denounced the enforcement of our immigration laws and demanded mass amnesty.
 
They also passed three separate resolutions on LGBTQ issues. One rejected the right of parents to know if their child was claiming to be a different gender at school and using a different name. One focused on healthcare equity for LGBTQ communities. And the third, as President Trump would say, promoted transgender for everyone.