Weingarten in the Running for NY Senate Seat

NY1 is reporting that Randi Weingarten, the President of AFT/UFT has entered the running for New York’s open Senate seat.

Eduwonk weighs in on the issue:

…there are other people who can be a good senator from New York but looking around the teachers’ union scene you don’t see a lot of national leaders with the potential to be transformative and move things along past today’s debates.  There are some promising up and comers but if Weingarten leaves now it will leave a vacuum.   She’s already doing two jobs, adding a third is probably untenable even for her.