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On Monday thousands will tell lawmakers to Fund Our Future! (And psst…Retirees, it’s your turn to act now.)

Publish Date: March 6, 2019 6:19 pm

Dear Friends, Thousands of Texas educators are about to descend on the Texas Statehouse on Monday, March 11, in a Red for Ed Texas March to the Capitol. We follow the...

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Legislative Hotline

Weekly wrap-up: Things are heating up at the Capitol

Publish Date: March 15, 2019 5:07 pm

This truly has been a whirlwind week in the halls of the Capitol, and that’s thanks in no small part to the THOUSANDS of educators and school personnel who came...

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Members of the Houston Educational Support Personnel, an affiliate of Texas AFT, are celebrating a hard-won victory against privatization in how their school district's food service program is managed.

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