By Karen Yi, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
NEWARK — Teachers and advocates at East Side High School joined their peers across the country on Thursday in a mass repudiation of Donald J. Trump’s pick for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said similar protests were being held in more than 200 cities and another 24 Newark schools to send a clear message to the incoming Trump administration.
“Kids have a right to great neighborhood public schools and people who are in charge of education, they have to help us strengthen and improve education, not dismantle it,” Weingarten told NJ Advance Media outside East Side High. “The teachers, the community activists have been the glue for this city for a long time and have kept this city together. I wanted to be here to honor that legacy.”
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