Here's Randi telling all sorts of sob stories about how kids will be hurt without this money, while remaining completely silent about her union's unconscionable fight to utterly screw kids, especially the most vulnerable ones, by laying off (in some cases, literally) teachers of the year while keeping ineffective (or far worse) teachers in their place:

I've crisscrossed the country, talking with teachers who have already been laid off or whose jobs are threatened. With tears in their eyes, they tell me that what upsets them the most is the impact on their students. They dread the thought of their kids walking into a classroom of 40 or more students; of school being closed one day a week; of the loss of AP classes, music and art courses, or programs that struggling kids need the most.

I spoke with a pregnant teacher who won't have health insurance when her child is born, but all she could talk about was the effect of layoffs on her school's students. I visited a school that will lose a third of its teachers because of the budget crisis. I met teachers everyone would want for their children but who are not going to be facing the excitement of a new school year. Their kids are their "special interest."

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker Pelosi have demonstrated true leadership on this legislation, while others wallow in demagoguery -- the last bastion of the just-say-no crowd. The House has passed a jobs bill in two other iterations; when it does so again on Tuesday, and the bill heads straight to the president's desk for his signature, the final tally will clearly show who is prepared to stand up for our kids and who is not.

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