On the right, teachers’ unions are often treated as the bogeyman, and no one today is more synonymous with teachers’ unions than Randi Weingarten. Indeed, in 2022 former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/11/21/2022/mike-pompeo-2024-trump " rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">called</a> Weingarten “the most dangerous person in the world.”But who is Randi Weingarten? What does she do on a day-to-day basis? How much power does she actually have? What are her views on topics such as pensions, curriculum, and teacher autonomy? And is she actually the most dangerous person in the world?On this episode of <a href="https://www.aei.org/tag/the-report-card-podcast/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Report Card</a>, <a href="https://www.aft.org/about/leadership/randi-weingarten" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Randi Weingarten</a> joins <a href="https://www.aei.org/profile/nathaniel-n-malkus/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Nat Malkus</a> for a wide-ranging conversation on many of the biggest topics in American education.Randi Weingarten is the president of the American Federation of Teachers and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Why-Fascists-Fear-Teachers-Education/dp/B0DQNVM5WG" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy</a>.

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