American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten on Tuesday said the Center of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) asked her organization to recommend “language” to be used in school opening guidelines released in February. In an interview on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, Weingarten was specifically asked about a report by the New York Post, which alleges that the CDC altered its guidance on when and how schools should reopen in favor of the AFT, the nation’s second largest teachers’ union and one of the top donors to the Democratic Party. Weingarten, who has been leading the effort to prevent schools from reopening throughout the past school year, responded that while there were indeed communications between AFT leaders and CDC officials, the federal health agency was “doing its job” and “we were doing our job.” “The CDC in February and March basically asked all sorts of different organizations to sit down …