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View ArticleThe AFT calls for freedom to teach
AFT President Randi Weingarten today delivered a major address on the crisis hollowing out the teaching profession—massive disinvestment in public education and deprofessionalization. In her speech at...
View ArticleAlliance/AFT Office Hours
Our office is currently open Mondays - Thursdays, 9:00 am - 5:30 pm and Fridays, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm. Members needing assistance, please call and speak to someone in the Grievance and...
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View ArticleHow to Join Alliance/AFT
Alliance/AFT is the largest teachers union serving Dallas ISD. We are a progressive organization that believes every member deserves to have respect for who they are and what they do, a fair wage, good...
View ArticleWhat unions do
In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment...
View ArticleThe AFT calls for freedom to teach
AFT President Randi Weingarten today delivered a major address on the crisis hollowing out the teaching profession—massive disinvestment in public education and deprofessionalization. In her speech at...
View ArticleA torrent of censorship
Nearly 250 years since our country’s founding, some Americans are still attempting to restrict others’ basic freedoms. In Florida and elsewhere, censoring books is part of larger efforts to exert...
View ArticleVoting for democracy and a better life
In the leadup to the midterm elections, pundits predicted a red wave, even a tsunami, based on polls, historical precedent, and steep gas and grocery prices. But I had my doubts. I spent the weeks...
View ArticleSharing more pathways to student debt relief
As the landscape of student debt shifts, and more and more opportunities allow borrowers to have their debt relieved, the AFT is using every avenue to ensure that the word is out. In affiliate...
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View ArticleCelebrating student loan relief
“It was like waking up and learning you won the lottery.” That’s just one of the comments flooding the AFT offices from members who are elated to be free of student debt at last. After relentless...
View ArticleNetflix CEO and Walmart Heir influence Texas State House Races
Texas AFT endorses pro-educator candidate Daniel Clayton for HD 100; anti-public school candidate Marquis Hawkins receives about $20,000 from out-of-state Charter School PACsDallas, TX - Educators...
View ArticleFinally—it’s President-elect Biden
Patience—counseled by former Vice President Joe Biden all election week as Americans waited for votes to be counted—finally paid off Nov. 7, four days after Election Day, when Biden won in Pennsylvania...
View ArticleYour vote is your voice
AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest column outlines the urgency of using our voices—our votes—in this life-changing election, when we will make a choice “between President Donald Trump, who has...
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Quick tools to stay informed...Sign up for the daily Legislative Hotline and Action AlertsFind out Who Represents YouSign up for Texas AFT E-mail Newsletters.
View ArticleHow to Join Alliance/AFT
Alliance/AFT is the largest teachers union serving Dallas ISD. We are a progressive organization that believes every member deserves to have respect for who they are and what they do, a fair wage, good...
View Article‘Back to school’ like never before
In her September New York Times column, AFT President Randi Weingarten says that going back to school has never looked like it does now. Weingarten explains that because of President Donald Trump’s...
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