Sen Tim Scott slams Randi Weingarten for comparing 'parental rights' to segregation
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Presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott bit back after American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten compared school choice and parental rights advocates to segregationists.
The comments from Weingarten – who serves as president of the second-largest teachers union in the United States, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) – came during an interview released Tuesday that she took part in with the Burnes Center for Social Change. Kyle Morris covers politics for Fox News. Story tips can be sent to kyle.morris@fox.com and on Twitter: @RealKyleMorris.
During the interview, Weingarten likened school choice and parental rights advocates to segregationists in the 1950s who had taken issue with the Supreme Court's ruling on Brown v. Board of Education, which found it unconstitutional to separate children in public schools on the basis of race.