Press Releases
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07/19/2009
AFT Statement On the Death of Frank McCourt
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07/16/2009
AFT Statement in Support of Delta Employees' Right To Choose Union
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07/16/2009
American Federation of Teachers Joins Blue Green Alliance
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07/16/2009
AFT Statement Supporting U.S. House Healthcare Reform Bill
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07/14/2009
AFT Statement On the National Center for Education Statistics' Report on Achievement Gaps
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07/14/2009
On CAP Reports on Teacher Compensation and Evaluation
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07/14/2009
AFT Statement On White House Initiative To Invest in Community Colleges
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07/13/2009
AFT's Weingarten Calls for School Reform To Be Done ‘With Us, Not to Us'
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07/11/2009
AFT Endorses Richard Trumka for AFL-CIO Presidency
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07/10/2009
AFT Endorses Richard Trumka for AFL-CIO Presidency QuEST Educational Issues Conference
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07/02/2009
AFT Statement On Senate Healthcare Reform Package
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06/25/2009
On ‘School Accountability—A Broader, Bolder Approach'
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06/25/2009
AFT Statement on New Teacher Evaluation Report from the Center for American Progress
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06/23/2009
AFT/Green Dot Public Schools Announce Contract Agreement for Green Dot New York Charter School
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06/22/2009
AFT Healthcare Applauds Agreement Between Catholic Hospitals and Labor That Provides Guidance for Union Organizing
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06/22/2009
AFT Statement On Civitas Public Charter School Teachers and Staff Unionizing in Chicago
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06/17/2009
AFt Statement On the Center on Education Policy's Report, ‘State Test Score Trends Through 2007-08, Part 1'
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06/16/2009
AFT Statement On ‘The Second Derivative: International Benchmarks in Mathematics for U.S. States and School Districts'
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06/15/2009
AFT Statement On CREDO Report on Charter Schools' Performance
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06/12/2009
AFT Statement On ‘World Day Against Child Labor'
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06/11/2009
AFT Statement Calling for Uzbekistan To End Forced Student and Teacher Labor
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06/10/2009
Nearly 200 Healthcare Workers and Public Employees To Push Congress on Healthcare Reform
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06/04/2009
AFT Statement in Response to AT&T Foundation Survey on High School Dropout Problem
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06/01/2009
AFT Statement On 'The Widget Effect,' The New Teacher Project's Report on Teacher Evaluations
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05/15/2009
AFT Statement On 55th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and Public School Reform
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