WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement on the results of the 2026 midterms:“Tonight, the American people unequivocally rejected the corruption, cruelty, chaos and ...

AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following after the United States District Court for Eastern District of Virginia ...

CHICAGO—On Labor Day, AFT President Randi Weingarten joined Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates and Dr. Jamal Bryant, senior pastor at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Stonecrest, ...

Across the country, AFT retirees are giving up their well-earned free time and their comfortable beds to travel hundreds of ...

WHEREAS, the promise of America is under attack from every angle—from economic policies that rob working people of opportunity, to the defunding and undermining of public education and higher ...

In New Jersey, Newark Teachers Union member Carla Ferreira returned to the community that raised her to become an English and bilingual teacher at the Newark School of Architecture & Interior Design.

“We are all good at speech, but disabled as readers and writers; the difference among us in reading/writing is simply that some are fairly easy to cure and some are not.” 2 Helping children learn to ...

In ancient times, teaching and learning were accomplished through apprenticeship: We taught our children how to speak, grow crops, craft cabinets, or tailor clothes by showing them how and by helping ...

How does the mind work—and especially how does it learn? Teachers’ instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut ...

The concentrated efforts of teachers, school staff and their unions to help establish community schools across the country is an example of solution-driven unionism at its finest. With the support of ...