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Teachers Union Leader: Federal Government Gets an “F”
Major school districts like Los Angeles and San Diego will stay closed in the fall, despite pressure from the White House to reopen. Randi Weingarten is president of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the country's biggest teaching unions, and she speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about the public school system's urgent need for government assistance.
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