
New analysis shows Randi Weingarten accrued tax-payer funded pension for time spent outside of the classroom
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A new analysis found that Randi Weingarten has been credited with more than a decade of "service time" while out of the classroom leading the United Federation of Teachers.
A provision in NYC’s union contract with the UFT allows teachers to go on leave from their teaching position to serve as union officers. Joshua Q. Nelson is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
Joshua focuses on politics, education policy ranging from the local to the federal level, and the parental uprising in education.
Per the analysis, "Records obtained by the Freedom Foundation from the Teachers’ Retirement System of the City of New York (TRSNYC) show that Weingarten’s taxpayer-funded pension will be calculated on the basis that she has worked full-time for more than 15 years as a public-school teacher in New York City schools when, in reality, she only worked about four." Joining Fox News Digital in 2019, he previously graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Political Science and is an alum of the National Journalism Center and the Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program.