11/7/2021- 11:25 p.m.
Critics fume as education official says she & others needed to flout mask mandate at event
The head of a leading US teachers’ union said she and other speakers dropped their masks during a conference so people could hear them better, sparking outrage among critics of mask mandates at schools.
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), was accused of hypocrisy for not wearing a mask during an event she attended earlier this week in Puerto Rico.
She and several other visiting officials speaking at the annual Somos conference addressed a “packed room” without wearing masks.
