Press Releases
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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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11/21/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on House Passage of the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
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11/19/2019
HFT Files Federal Lawsuit over Proposed State Takeover of School District
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11/15/2019
Statement by American Federation of Teachers President on Local Affiliate Endorsements in 2020 Presidential Campaign
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11/14/2019
Educator Unions Stand Together Deeply Saddened by Another Tragic School Shooting and Deaths
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11/14/2019
Graduate Workers Strike Back Against Trump Anti-Union Rule
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11/14/2019
DC Educators Agree on First-Ever Charter School Union Contract
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11/11/2019
HFT: Parents, Educators Demand Answers About Proposed State Takeover of HISD
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11/07/2019
Educators Question State Takeover of HISD
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10/31/2019
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten Congratulates Chicago Teachers Union
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