by Randi Weingarten
President, American Federation of Teachers
The person recently selected as one of the nation’s top teachers has used her bully pulpit to give the nation a window on the realities confronting students and teachers—and to ask for help.
“In any school system in any state, you have families in crisis right now,” National Teacher of the Year Rebecca Mieliwocki told the Washington Post . “I can do everything I can when [students] step into my classroom to try to level the playing field, but one person alone just can’t do it all. … It’s all hands on deck right now to get through this.”
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