Article snippet: The #RedforEd teachers’ movement continued to step up its 2020 political engagement with a rally Monday afternoon in Tallahassee, the capital of the battleground state of Florida. Though it was an official school day for public schools in Florida, a crowd of several thousand teachers and supporters, most wearing the movement’s trademark red t-shirts, rallied to “Take on Tallahassee” where they highlighted their demands for more pay and more school funding to the Florida State Legislature, which returns to session on Tuesday. Florida is the second battleground state in the first two weeks of 2020 where #RedforEd teachers are engaging politically to impact the outcome of the presidential election, ostensibly under the guise of improving public education. Donald Trump narrowly defeated Hillary Clinton in Florida in 2016, and the state’s 29 electoral college votes are considered critical for his re-election in 2020. Last week in Minnesota, “The #RedforEd teachers’ movement confirmed it is a purely political movement designed to help elect Democrats and stop the re-election of President Donald Trump in 2020. The teachers union in the key battleground state of Minnesota announced it will hold a three-day summit reported. Breitbart News reported on the national political objectives of the #RedforEd movement in February: The Florida Education Association (FEA), which describes itself as “the state’s largest association of professional employees, with more than 140,000 me... Link to the full article to read more