Ben Austin
Ben Austin is a prominent education advocate and the founding director of Education Civil Rights Now. He gained recent attention for an opinion piece in The Hill, where he urged the Democratic Party to sever ties with Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, highlighting concerns over her influence on educational policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Austin, a former aide to Vice President Kamala Harris, criticized Weingarten's leadership as detrimental to the party's credibility and to American children, particularly during school closures.
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Ben Austin is a former aide to Kamala Harris and wrote an opinion piece urging the Democratic Party to cut ties with Randi Weingarten.
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