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The president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Randi Weingarten, was arrested on Thursday night in Philadelphia while protesting the closing of 23 local schools.

“This was really a plan to eliminate public education,” Weingarten told The Huffington Post after being released Thursday. “This is not about how to fix public schools, but to close them — not how to stabilize but to destabilize public schooling.”

Video released by AFT on Friday showed Weingarten and members of a group of 18 protesters locking arms and blocking access to a meeting of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission (SRC), the five-member board in charge of the city’s public school system. All 19 demonstrators were arrested and released Thursday night.


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