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RED-FACED RANDI VOWS ‘PUPPET’ PAYBACK

Heads may roll.

United Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten vowed “changes” at her union yesterday following the egg-on-face revelation that members tried to steer City Council questioning using scripted cue cards.

EDITORIAL: HIDE THOSE PUPPET STRINGS!

Union activists had sought to push City Council members into grilling Department of Education officials during a hearing on charter schools Monday — while taking it easy on union officials. The public puppeteering stoked a backlash over what many perceived to be lobbying gone wild.

“I’m going to make some changes at the union to make sure that that never happens again,” Weingarten said during an interview on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York.”

She offered several mea culpas for the union’s blunder.

“The buck stops with me,” she said. “The fact that some of my folks thought that was OK is a bad thing.”

UFT spokesman Ron Davis would not elaborate on Weingarten’s threat.

“She raised the possibility about making some staff changes on the air, but she hasn’t explained to anyone what changes she has in mind,” he said. “She has not committed to anything.”

During the interview, Weingarten also took a swipe at former City Council Education Committee Chairwoman Eva Moskowitz for her criticism earlier this week of the cue card-astrophe.

“I find that people shouldn’t be hypocrites — because Eva used to ask us all the time, when she was education chair, for questions to prep the City Council about what’s really going on in schools,” said Weingarten.

Moskowitz, a union antagonist who currently operates a network of four charter schools in Harlem, shot back that Weingarten’s assertion was “utterly false” and “defamatory.”

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