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

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from AFT President Randi Weingarten