JOE BIDEN: TEACHER UNION TOADY Biden, unlike his predecessors, has made no effort to hide any union fealty. In fact, he boasted to a crowd at a White House event in September 2021, “…I sleep with a NEA member every night.” Yes, Biden is quite literally in bed with the teachers unions. But it’s the children of America who are getting screwed.
As a presidential candidate in 2019, Joe Biden agreed with National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen García’s claim that charter schools – independently operated public schools of choice, that don’t have to follow the litany of rules and regs that traditional public schools do and are rarely unionized – are “very misguided school reforms.” The fact that charters are very popular, which over a million waitlisted students will attest to, doesn’t make a whit of difference to Biden or teacher union leaders.