Press Releases

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
11/21/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten on House Passage of the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
11/19/2019
HFT Files Federal Lawsuit over Proposed State Takeover of School District
11/15/2019
Statement by American Federation of Teachers President on Local Affiliate Endorsements in 2020 Presidential Campaign
11/14/2019
Educator Unions Stand Together Deeply Saddened by Another Tragic School Shooting and Deaths
11/14/2019
Graduate Workers Strike Back Against Trump Anti-Union Rule
11/14/2019
DC Educators Agree on First-Ever Charter School Union Contract
11/11/2019
HFT: Parents, Educators Demand Answers About Proposed State Takeover of HISD
11/07/2019
Educators Question State Takeover of HISD
10/31/2019
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten Congratulates Chicago Teachers Union
10/30/2019
AFT President Randi Weingarten’s Statement on NAEP Report Card
10/23/2019
AFT's Statement on Syria

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