The AFT supports preK-12 union affiliates in promoting children’s well-being by elevating the unique expertise of SISP, including: SISP educators have a powerful potential to better serve the full ...

Alaska Public Employees Association President Sandy Thompson Wallace, Alaska Nurses Association President Shannon Davenport ...

Today, The Washington Sun reported a secret plan by the U.S. Department of Education to eject the Office of Federal Student ...

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten, Oregon School Employees Association President Sarah Wofford and Abbey Clements, ...

Manufacturing Futures is a new initiative that will bring manufacturing career pathways directly into middle and high school classrooms in the Detroit Public Schools Community District and the ...

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich.—AFT President Randi Weingarten joined General Motors representatives, district leaders, educators and students at the Michael Berry Career Center on Thursday to launch a ...

The future we want is within reach. It starts with your vote. The divisions roiling our country can obscure the fact that Americans share a common desire: We all want fairness and opportunity, the ...

The AFT believes that to have a strong democracy which protects the common good, we must fight for the resources each community needs. That is why the AFT is fighting for a fair taxation system that ...

Consider this interaction between a teacher and his students, most of them English language learners, in a ninth-grade English language arts class: Teacher: Who wrote The Pearl, Carmen? Carmen: ...

The AFT is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our ...