The U.S. Education Department locked the front doors of its headquarters in Washington on Thursday when two union presidents appeared to deliver “report cards” on Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s first year in office.
Randi Weingarten, leader of the American Federation of Teachers, said she and Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association, went to the department with large boxes containing more than 80,000 report cards filled out by teachers and paraprofessionals.
“We were locked out,” said Weingarten, who said they gave the department notice they were coming. “We asked for an appointment, but they locked us out instead.”