Har­ris’ VP pick Walz a big win for teach­ers’ unions that pushed schools to stay shut­tered for over a year

<div>Harris' VP pick Walz a big win for teachers' unions that pushed schools to stay shuttered for over a year</div>

Teach­ers’ unions rejoiced this week when Vice Pres­i­dent and Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Kamala Har­ris announced Min­neso­ta Gov. Tim Walz as her run­ning mate, describ­ing the left-wing tick­et as a major win for pub­lic educators.But crit­ics are warn­ing that Har­ris’ selec­tion of Walz, a for­mer teach­ers’ union mem­ber who is opposed to what he has described as the school choice “agen­da,” over Penn­syl­va­nia Gov. Josh Shapiro, a school-choice advo­cate, should raise alarm bells for par­ents and chil­dren in the pub­lic edu­ca­tion sys­tem. The teach­ers’ union pushed hard to pro­long school clo­sures dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic — many dis­tricts remained shut­tered for over a year.“Anyone who makes Ran­di this excit­ed is a 5‑alarm fire for par­ents and stu­dents,” for­mer Edu­ca …