McAuliffe Takes Thousands from Teachers' Union as Leader Defends 1619 Project

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe took $25,000 from the American Federation of Teachers in April as the union's leader defended teaching the controversial 1619 Project in classrooms.

Feature as a "Factual version of oppression in America" targeted by "People who have no idea what means." Weingarten again defended the project during a May Fox News appearance, saying she has "Not arrived" at the conclusion that its findings are historically inaccurate-despite objections from prominent historians over the project's numerous "Factual errors."

Less than two weeks after the speech, McAuliffe offered tacit support for reopening schools and called for $2 billion in spending to "Raise teacher pay and address inequities head on."

McAuliffe did not comment on Democratic governor Ralph Northam's February decision to open schools in the spring, which came as Weingarten and other union leaders pushed for teachers to receive priority access to vaccines in order to reopen schools.

With the Pulitzer Center in February to "Explore a selection of essays in The 1619 Project" with founder Nikole Hannah-Jones and Weingarten.

To get the "Invaluable and nuanced lesson plans about the 1619 Project directly to educators" and pushed back against efforts across the country to exclude the curriculum from schools.

"The country has to see its history in all of its manifestations and that history cannot be whitewashed. The 1619 Project forces those who do not want to see, to see."
 

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