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President Diann Woodard Sends Letter of Support to the Chicago Teachers Union

As President of the American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA), AFL-CIO, I am writing to offer the full support of the principals, assistant principals, and other school leaders, to the...

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Closing Schools is Not the Solution

Authorities in districts across the country are finding it easier to close struggling schools than to work toward finding solutions to keep them open. While closing failing schools may solve budget...

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Remembering Heroes of Labor and Civil Rights

Trailblazer activists Viola Liuzzo, Annie Clemenc, and Evelyn Dubrow, who dedicated themselves to bettering the lives of others, will be posthumously honored and inducted into the International Labor...

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Statement by President Diann Woodard on AFT President Randi Weingarten’s...

As we step forward into the 2013-2014 school year, President Weingarten is correct in calling for a united front among parents, educators and community members in reclaiming the promise of public...

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Diann Woodard’s Latest Huffington Post Blog: Listen to Mama on School Reform

A recent national poll conducted by Hart Research Associates revealed that parents overwhelmingly believe that public schools are the single most important institution for the future of their community...

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SEIU, AFT Join Big Coalition For Ban On Job Discriminations Vs. Gays

WASHINGTON —The Service Employees and the American Federation of Teachers, two of the nation’s largest unions, have joined a wide-ranging coalition that will use the August congressional recess to urge...

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Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education

As educators and students across the nation face school closures, budget cuts, test fixation and privatization, it is important that we come together and reclaim the promise of public education. This...

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AFL-CIO Adopt-a-School Program Awards Detroit School with a $5,000 Grant

Today AFSA President Diann Woodard attended a presentation at Western International High School in Detroit where she once served as an assistant principal. As part of the AFSA endorsed Adopt-a-School...

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AFT’s Weingarten: School ‘Reformers’ Ignore “The Elephant In The Room,” Poverty

WASHINGTON—So-called school “reformers,” bent on closing “failing” schools, ignore “the elephant in the room,” poverty, that accounts for poor student performance, American Federation of Teachers...

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AFSA Member’s School Awarded $5,000 Grant Through AFL-CIO Adopt-A-School Program

On November 8, the American Federation of Teachers presented Gwendolyn Payton, principal of Anne Beers Elementary School and member of AFSA Local 4, the Council of School Officers in Washington, D.C.,...

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Union Leaders Laud, Eulogize Mandela

WASHINGTON —Union leaders lauded Nelson Mandela as one of the world’s greatest fighters for human rights and democracy after the longtime South African liberation leader – and his nation’s first...

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AFT’s Weingarten: ALEC ‘Strips Away Rights in the Interests of Power’

WASHINGTON (PAI)—The secretive, Right Wing American Legislative Ex-change Council (ALEC) – a business-funded cabal that controls 1,810 state legislators nationwide – “strips away rights” of workers and...

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Weingarten: ‘Polarization and Anger’ in U.S. Society ‘Playing Out in Schools’

WASHINGTON—The “polarization and anger” running through U.S. society, as a result of the collapse of the American Dream, “is playing out in the schools as well,” Teachers President Randi Weingarten...

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Suspended Newark Principals Meet With AFSA President Diann Woodard and CASA

Newark, NJ—Pledging full support for Newark’s recently suspended principals, Diann Woodard, president of the American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA), AFL-CIO met for a briefing with four of...

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Sign The Petition to Stop Cami Anderson’s One Newark Plan!

Recently, five Newark, NJ principals were unjustly suspended by Superintendent Cami Anderson. The reason: for simply supporting community members and speaking out against the closures of public...

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AFT Exposes For-Profit Charter School Industry

WASHINGTON –The American Federation of Teachers is launching a campaign to expose the for-profit charter school industry as more interested in high pay for its CEOs and profits for its stockholders...

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AFT President Randi Weingarten: Stop Fighting Unions, Start Fixing Tests

Last week, American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President, Randi Weingarten, delivered a keynote speech at an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) sponsored event, where she expressed her concerns...

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Teachers Unions to Education Secretary Duncan: Leave!

LOS ANGELES–The American Federation of Teachers’ convention has a blunt message for Obama administration Education Secretary Arne Duncan:  You flunk the test of helping the nation’s schools and kids,...

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AFT Pushes for Kidnapped Professor’s Release

WASHINGTON –The American Federation of Teachers is pushing the State Department to campaign for release of yet another U.S. hostage, retired SUNY-Oswego Professor Warren Weinstein, kidnapped three...

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Senators Set Date for NCLB Markup

POLITICO Pro reported that Sens. Lamar Alexander and Patty Murray have stated they are aiming for a markup of their No Child Left Behind bill the week of April 13. Contrary to the current state of the...

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