American Federation of Teachers President: 'Donald Trump Has Waged a War on Truth'

Our classrooms and schools are not immune to the toxic political and social climate enabled by the president and his accomplices,” Weingarten continued.The AFT head then outlined the political plan of action for teachers belonging to AFT in the coming 2020 election.Since March 2018, when the #RedforEd movement launched, both the AFT and the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, have been working hand in hand organizing political events and protests in a number of states, working closely with the more loosely organized #RedforEd activists, many of whom are former Bernie Sanders supporters embedded within teachers unions.As Breitbart News reported in February:This teachers union effort, called #RedforEd, has its roots in the very same socialism that President Trump vowed in his 2019 State of the Union address to stop, and it began in its current form in early 2018 in a far-flung corner of the country before spreading nationally.