Press Releases
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09/16/2009
AFT Statement on National Green Schools Campaign
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09/16/2009
AFT Statement on the Election of New AFL-CIO Officers
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09/16/2009
AFT Statement On the 2009 Broad Prize for Urban Education
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09/14/2009
AFT Report Finds Abuses of Teachers Recruited from Overseas
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09/11/2009
Statement by Antonia Cortese, Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Teachers, On ‘United We Serve,’ a National Call to Service
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09/10/2009
AFT Officers Visit Philadelphia Schools and Meet with Community Groups As AFT Back-to-School Tour ’09 Concludes
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09/10/2009
AFT Asks Federal Agencies To Provide Frontline Healthcare Workers With Appropriate Respiratory Protection To Prevent H1N1 Spread
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09/10/2009
AFT Statement On President Obama’s Plan for Healthcare Reform
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09/09/2009
AFT Statement On Sen. Harkin’s Chairmanship of Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee
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09/03/2009
AFT President Visits Portland-Area Schools, Community College Speaks at AFL-CIO Luncheon on Education, Healthcare Reform
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08/31/2009
AFT Back-to-School Tour ’09 Kicks Off School Year at Three Baltimore Schools
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08/28/2009
AFT Back-to-School Tour ’09 Comes to Houston’s Kashmere High School
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08/27/2009
AFT President, U.S. Education Secretary Visit St. Louis, Laud Reforms To Improve Teaching and Learning
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08/26/2009
AFT Statement On the Passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy
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08/19/2009
AFT Statement On Healthcare Reform-Public Option
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08/17/2009
AFT's Eight-City Back-to-School Tour Begins Aug. 27
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08/11/2009
AFT Statement On the Passing of Eunice Shriver
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08/06/2009
AFT Statement On the Confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court
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07/24/2009
AFT Leaders To Scrutinize, Weigh in on ‘Race to the Top' Education Fund Regulations
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07/21/2009
AFT Statement On Baltimore City Public Schools' Improvement On Maryland School Assessment
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07/19/2009
AFT Statement On the Death of Frank McCourt
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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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07/16/2009
AFT Statement in Support of Delta Employees' Right To Choose Union
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07/14/2009
On CAP Reports on Teacher Compensation and Evaluation
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Press Credentials at AFT Convention
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News and resources from the office of the president
from AFT President Randi Weingarten