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Randi Weingarten
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Randi Weingarten (born 1957) is an American labor leader and educator and is the current president of the United Federation of Teachers.
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Randi currently lives in the Manhattan borough of New York City. She succeeded Sandra Feldman.
After growing up in Rockland County, Weingarten went on to receive a B.S. in labor relations from Cornell University and a J.D. from the Cardozo School of Law. She then worked as a lawyer for the firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan from 1983 to 1986. From 1991 until 1997, she taught history at Clara Barton High School in Crown Heights.
She is also a board member of the Albert Shanker Institute.
In December 2006, Weingarten experienced a somewhat embarrassing moment when she failed to correctly solve a simple math problem posed to her by Brian Lehrer on his WNYC radio talk show.[1]
On March 30, 2007, Weingarten won re-election for a fourth term as UFT President. Weingarten received 87% of the vote. She has been president of the UFT since 1998.
- ↑ "Randi Weingarten - UFT President," Aug 10, 2005 (11:00 AM); viewed December 22, 2005, http://www.uft.org/about/rw_bio/
- ^ "Math Pop Quiz Stumps Randi", New York Daily News, December 28, 2006.
- Biography from the UFT