AFT Issues Statement on Plan to Arm Educators
August 23, 2018
August 23, 2018
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 -- The American Federation of Teachers issued the following statement by President Randi Weingarten on reports that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos wants to use federal funds to purchase guns to arm educators:
"We knew Betsy DeVos would try to do the bidding of the National Rifle Association and the gun manufacturers, but to even consider diverting resources used to support poor kids to flood schools with more guns is beyond the recklessness we believed she . . .
"We knew Betsy DeVos would try to do the bidding of the National Rifle Association and the gun manufacturers, but to even consider diverting resources used to support poor kids to flood schools with more guns is beyond the recklessness we believed she . . .