Press Releases
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01/28/2009
AFT Statement On U.S. House Passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
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01/28/2009
Statement by Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers, On the Center for American Progress' Teacher Quality Report
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01/26/2009
AFT Statement On Designation of Wilma Liebman to Chair National Labor Relations Board
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01/26/2009
AFT Statement On Timothy Geithner's Confirmation as Treasury Secretary
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01/22/2009
AFT Statement On Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate Approval To Be Secretary of State
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01/21/2009
AFT Statement On Confirmation of Former Gov. Tom Vilsack as Secretary of Agriculture
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01/21/2009
AFT Statement On Arne Duncan's Senate Approval to be Secretary of Education
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01/15/2009
AFT Statement Proposed Education Funding in National Economic Recovery Plan
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01/14/2009
AFT Launches ‘Fight For America's Future: It's Dollars and Sense' Campaign
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01/14/2009
AFT Statement On House Passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Act
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01/12/2009
AFT, NEA and Presidential Inauguration Committee
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01/09/2009
AFT Statement On Passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay and Paycheck Fairness Acts
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01/08/2009
AFT Statement On the National Early Literacy Panel's Final Findings
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01/08/2009
On President-elect Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan
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01/08/2009
AFT Statement On Seventh Anniversary of No Child Left Behind
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01/07/2009
AFT Statement On Education Week's Quality Counts 2009 Report
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06/16/2005
Statement by Edward J. McElroy, President, American Federation of Teachers, on the Department of Education’s Decision To Shift the Deadline for Paraprofessionals To Meet NCLB’s Staffing Requirements
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12/15/2004
Official NAEP Results on Charter Schools Mirror Earlier Reports' Results
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03/15/2004
Statement by Edward J. McElroy, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Teachers on New No Child Left Behind Guidelines for Highly Qualified Teachers
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04/29/1999
AFT Statement on Project Star Class Size Study
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