Press Releases
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10/13/2020
New Report Exposes More Than Five Million Student Loan Servicing Errors Hindering Public Service Loan Forgiveness
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10/12/2020
AFT’s Weingarten Rejects Inadequate White House Stimulus Push
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10/10/2020
Statements by AFT President Randi Weingarten, President Emeritus Edward McElroy and Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus Lorretta Johnson on the Death of Secretary-Treasurer Emeritus Nat LaCour
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10/09/2020
Public Service Workers Obtain Final Approval of Significant Settlement with Loan Servicer Navient
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10/09/2020
Florida Educators to Appeal Court Ruling, Continue to Fight for Local Control and School Safety
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10/07/2020
AFT Leaders Announce Innovation Fund COVID-19 Response Grants for the 2020-21 School Year
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10/06/2020
AFT's Weingarten on Trump's Abandonment of Stimulus Talks
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10/02/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten on House COVID-19 Relief Package
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09/30/2020
AFT Launches Nationwide Get-Out-the-Vote Bus Tour to Stop Trump, Elect Biden and Harris
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09/29/2020
AFT’s Weingarten Reacts to First Presidential Debate
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09/28/2020
AFT’s Weingarten Lauds Updated House HEROES relief bill
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09/25/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten Reacts to Nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court Weeks Before Election Day
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09/25/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten Says President Trump’s One-Time Prescription Drug Stunt Isn’t Real Help for Older Americans
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09/18/2020
Statement of AFT President Randi Weingarten on the Life and Legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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09/15/2020
New Poll Shows America’s Parents, Teachers Want ‘Safety First’ on School Reopenings
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09/01/2020
American Federation of Teachers Re-elects President Randi Weingarten, Elects Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram and Executive Vice President Evelyn DeJesus, Slate of New Vice Presidents
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08/26/2020
AFT Ad Set to Air during Republican Convention Banned by Fox News
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08/25/2020
AFT President Randi Weingarten on 2020 PDK Poll Measuring Attitudes Toward Public Schools
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08/24/2020
AFT President Weingarten on the Shooting of Jacob Blake
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08/24/2020
Florida educators win temporary injunction against executive order
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08/14/2020
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten Decries Trump Attack on US Postal Service
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08/14/2020
Cypress-Fairbanks AFT Seeks Injunction to Halt Requirement For School Employees to Return to School Buildings
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08/13/2020
Educators React to Latest Proceedings in Florida Case on School Reopening
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08/12/2020
AFT’s Weingarten Rejects Trump's Schools Reopening Guidelines as Too Little, Too Late
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08/12/2020
AFT and SBPC Uncover New Evidence of Mismanagement and Abuse in Scandal-Plagued Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
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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.

Randi's Corner
News and resources from the office of the president
from AFT President Randi Weingarten