Washington May Be in Future of Teachers Chief Randi Weingarten

 

Speaking of Randi Weingarten, it looks like she might be heading up the AFT nationally.

It has been a good year for the president of the city teachers union — so good that education watchers say Randi Weingarten may soon be leaving New York to become the president of the national teachers union.

After negotiating a rarity — an early contract with no givebacks and significant raises for teachers, who overwhelmingly approved it last week — Ms. Weingarten will probably sail to reelection this spring as president of the city union, the United Federation of Teachers. Experts say she may be campaigning locally with an eye on running to replace the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Edward McElroy, in that union's 2008 election.

"She's been groomed for this from the very beginning," a researcher who runs the Education Intelligence Agency, Michael Antonucci, said. "He's old and Randi is young — it's just a matter of time. When he decides to step down, she'll step up."

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Washington May Be in Future of Teachers Chief Randi Weingarten

BY SARAH GARLAND - Staff Reporter of the Sun
December 18, 2006
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/45312

It has been a good year for the president of the city teachers union — so good that education watchers say Randi Weingarten may soon be leaving New York to become the president of the national teachers union.