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Sep 21, 2026
John KliszakGUEST
But, but when we say home schools in this sense, really what we mean is subsidizing ed tech product line, charter school or some form of online virtual schooling.
John KliszakGUEST
Um, but the charter school, charter school, the, the concept of charter schools, again, you know, these are usually heavily promoted by, uh, Republican administrations, but the concept charter schooling was coined by, uh, Albert Shanker, who was the president of the American Federation of Teachers union for many, many years.
John KliszakGUEST
He was also the, uh, member of the Trilateral Commission and was the president of a global union federation known as, um, Educ- Education International.
John KliszakGUEST
Uh, one of the first, the first federal charter schooling bills were signed into law by Bill Clinton.
Natasha SingerGUEST
And they don't so much need these middlemen nonprofits to carry their message because they're deeply embedded in the classroom.
Nikki PetroskiHOST
You know, Microsoft announced that and I think did a partnership with American Federation of Teachers.
Nikki PetroskiHOST
That was a year ago.
Nikki PetroskiHOST
And I read that in the book just as the new announcement of their new partnership was coming out.
Natasha SingerGUEST
Helping teens students learn responsibly and confidently in an AI-first future with Gemini.
Natasha SingerGUEST
Right.
Natasha SingerGUEST
And so you're asking me about Microsoft and the deal they did with the American Federation of Teachers recently.
Natasha SingerGUEST
But I think it's really important to understand the underlying crusade to AFI schools and this language like make your kids prepared for an AI first future with Gemini or help your kids prepare.
Mike CliffordHOST
And about a month into the new school year, teachers in Wisconsin and across the country are more stressed than ever.
Mike CliffordHOST
That's according to a new survey by the American Federation of Teachers.
Judith Ruiz BranchCORRESPONDENT
The American Federation of Teachers, Melissa Cropper, says now they're also faced with financial strain from rising costs and ever-shifting education policies that impact how they show up for their students.
Melissa CropperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They're fed up, they're tired of trying to comply with policies that don't allow them to teach the way that they want to teach.
Melissa CropperSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They still actually love working with the students when they have the freedom to teach the way that they want to teach, but the pressures are just becoming too much.
Safiya NobleGUEST
So it's these everyday banal ways in which Black people and vulnerable people will be kept out of the workforce because AI automated systems like HR screeners and other kinds of resume screeners are just completely taking us out of the pipeline of possibility for jobs.
Al SharptonHOST
Yeah, that's why Nash Action Network, like American Federation of Teachers and others, is saying we need and we're getting challenging and getting some of these AI companies to deal with the fluency, with blacks learning fluency, leaders being up to speed.
Al SharptonHOST
no matter what our positions may be on data center.
Al SharptonHOST
UCLA professor and author of Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Noble, thank you for being with us.
Michael PopokHOST
Service Employees International Union.
Michael PopokHOST
The American Federation of Teachers.
Michael PopokHOST
United Food and Commercial Workers.
Michael PopokHOST
The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.
Michael PopokHOST
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, Mi Familia en Accion.
Michael PopokHOST
OCA, the Asian Pacific American Advocates, National Urban League, MN8 out of Minnesota, Service Employees International Union, the American Federation of Teachers, United Food and Commercial Workers, the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.
Michael PopokHOST
Who are the defendants? Homeland Security and Mark Wayne Mullen, ICE and David Venturella, U.S.
Michael PopokHOST
Department of Justice and Todd Blanch, FBI and Kash Patel and Tom Homan.
Natasha SingerGUEST
Yes.
Natasha SingerGUEST
So I'm sure you know Randy Weingarten, the head of the American Federation of Teachers, the second largest U.S. Teachers Union.
Natasha SingerGUEST
And last year, she did a partnership with Microsoft and OpenAI and Anthropic.
Natasha SingerGUEST
The three AI makers gave the Teachers Union $23 million to help launch an AI academy to train teachers across the US how to use AI in school to do things like automatically generate lesson plans or write emails to parents or give students feedback.
Jimmy HicksHOST
And the Fed doesn't seem to take its order from politicians, but Microsoft just gave every political union a say over its classroom technology.
Jimmy HicksHOST
The tech giant announced a legally binding agreement with the American Federation of Teachers setting safety and privacy rules for its artificial intelligence in schools.
Jimmy HicksHOST
It bans using student data to train Microsoft's AI, which is sensible, but it also includes an equity and inclusion provision.
Jimmy HicksHOST
And Microsoft says it will extend the agreement to every school district in the country.
Carol MassarHOST
I want to bring in Randy Weingarten.
Carol MassarHOST
She's president of the American Federation of Teachers.
Carol MassarHOST
It's the second largest teachers union.
Carol MassarHOST
1.8 million members, including teachers, higher education, faculty and staff, nurses, and other healthcare professionals and more.
Janet ParshallHOST
And so all of this conversation.
Janet ParshallHOST
And then Microsoft moves to the left on A.I., And Microsoft is now partnering with the American Federation of Teachers, a leftist union on something called the National AI Safety and Private Standard.
Janet ParshallHOST
This has set up all kinds of alarm bells.
Janet ParshallHOST
I'll come back to that in a minute.
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