Press Releases

02/10/2020
Puerto Rico’s Educators Respond to Debt Deal
02/10/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten Responds to Trump Administration’s Budget Proposal
02/06/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten and Virginia Leaders Celebrate Passage of Collective Bargaining Legislation in the Virginia House of Delegates
02/06/2020
West Virginia Educator and AFT President Call on Administration to Halt Cruel Cuts to Programs for Children and Families
02/05/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten Reacts to Impeachment Vote
02/04/2020
AFT's Weingarten Responds to Trump's State of the Union Address
01/31/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten Responds to Education Department ‘Fix’ for Loan Forgiveness
01/22/2020
AFT’s Weingarten Reacts to Oral Arguments in Espinoza v. Montana
01/22/2020
AFT and Student Defense Sue DeVos for Breaking Federal Law to Help Predatory For-Profit Colleges
01/21/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten on the Supreme Court’s Delay in Ruling on the Affordable Care Act
01/08/2020
Educators Laud Temporary Injunction to Stop State Takeover of Houston Schools
12/29/2019
Statement of AFT President Randi Weingarten on Anti-Religious Violence in New York and Texas
12/19/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten Praises House’s Removal of SALT Cap
12/19/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten Celebrates House’s Passing of USMCA
12/19/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Final Passage of Fiscal Year 2020 Appropriations Bill
12/19/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Texas v. United States Affordable Care Act Case
12/18/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten Responds to House Vote to Impeach 45th President of the United States
12/13/2019
Education, Civil Rights and Community Groups Respond to News of Planned Protest at Democratic Presidential Forum in Pittsburgh
12/12/2019
Statement of AFT President Randi Weingarten on Passage of the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3)
12/07/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on Pete Buttigieg’s education plan
12/06/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on House Passage of the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019
12/04/2019
Overflow Town Hall Crowd Urges Solutions to Strengthen Houston’s Public Schools, Not Abandon and Charterize Them
12/03/2019
AFT’s Weingarten on 2018 PISA Results
12/02/2019
Public Education Groups to Host Top Democratic Presidential Candidates at 2020 Public Education Forum
11/26/2019
Historic School Funding Bill Signed into Law in Massachusetts

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