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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
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Ayanna Pressley on ICE prisons: "4,000 children under the age of 18, 20 infants - forced behind the wall by this cruel administration. The lawful maximum time is 20 days. We have 9 year olds having to advocate for themselves. If you're not working to close Dilley, you are complicit in child abuse."
In real time, Trump is witnessing the failure of MAGA’s online disinformation apparatus to invent reality whole cloth and inflate the strength of his candidates into something it isn’t. trib.al/ki2NfG8
Our union doesn’t just point out problems, we are focused on solutions-driven activism to help our members and their communities. Read about our ten point blueprint to boost teaching and learning in the AI era www.aft.org/press/speech...
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Craig R. Brittain
The New Republic
New NPR/Ipsos data on AI reflects what we’ve heard from AFT members. There’s a lot of anxiety from teachers & parents about how to navigate seismic changes in education—that’s why we developed a “Devices Down, Eyes Up, Hands-On” plan. www.k12dive.com/news/over-ha...
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
Funneling public dollars into private schools is deeply unpopular. It’s a good thing that political backlash has resulted in some potential uses for public school parents, but vouchers are never a substitute for direct, sustained investment in public education. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/u...
Inflation is going the wrong way- and its all Trump inflicted. www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/e...
The Trump DOJ's indictment targeting @splcenter.org is corrupt and baseless—a dangerous example of this administration's willingness to wage a war of political retribution against its adversaries. We all should be alarmed and we must stand up and fight back.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
The chaos and violence ICE brought to Minnesota is leaving lasting trauma on kids. Educators and school staff are going above and beyond to help students heal and get back to learning.
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New details reported about the federal school voucher scheme expose an admin willing to put its thumb on the scale for privatization & spend billions more to prop it up than it ever has on public schools. 90% of kids attend public schools. Invest in their future! www.aft.org/press-releas...
NCTQ's new Teacher Prep Review shows more programs now teach evidence-based reading. The work doesn’t end there. Teachers also need quality curriculum, ongoing professional learning, and a voice in policy to help every student become a confident reader.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸
In addition to highlighting educators’ concerns on student AI use, a poll by NPR and Ipsos found that 3 in 5 teachers use AI on the job.
Annual inflation rose to a three-year-high of 4.2% in May, underscoring how elevated energy prices are rippling through the US economy, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement responding to new media reporting on the Trump administration’s plans for their federal school voucher program:
