Students at UT Austin rally together, urging university leaders to reject Trump’s Compact for Higher Education. Photo credit: Aaron E. Martinez/Austin American-Statesman. At Texas State University in San Marcos, Dr. Thomas Alter’s termination has been upheld after a court‐ordered reinstatement....
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Texas AFT President Zeph Capo speaks out against private school vouchers at our union’s 2023 Public Education Advocacy Day. Photo by Win O’Neal, CCR Studios. This article was originally published by Our Schools Our Democracy, a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to...
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Sheria Smith, the former president of AFGE Local 252 and lawyer in the Office of Civil Rights, speaks at a rally outside Sen. Ted Cruz’s Dallas office as part of Texas AFT’s biennial convention in June 2025. Photo by Brooke...
Read MoreTexans will once again have a chance this fall to shape the state Constitution. On Election Day, Nov. 4, voters will decide on 17 proposed constitutional amendments passed by the Legislature earlier this year. Each proposition requires majority approval to take effect. Early voting starts next week, running from Oct....
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This November, we have the opportunity to send another union member to the Texas Senate. That’s why Texas AFT’s Committee on Political Education (COPE) is proud to endorse Taylor Rehmet in the special election for Texas Senate District 9. A veteran, union president, and working-class Texan, Rehmet will bring real-world...
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The federal government has shut down, and that is bad news for Texas. As the Texas AFL-CIO notes, our state is home to the third-most federal workers in the country and the highest number of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) members.
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San Antonio educator and Texas AFT member Adrian Reyna is running for the Texas House in District 125, which covers a large part of northwest San Antonio.
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On Friday, Oct. 18, union members, educators, parents, students, and community allies will once again come together for “No Kings Day,” a nationwide day of action reminding lawmakers that the United States is a democracy, not a monarchy.
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After months of uncertainty and an AFT lawsuit, the Trump Administration has resumed student loan forgiveness under the Income-Based Repayment (IBR) program.
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On Oct. 1, the Trump Administration sent a letter to nine universities, inviting them to sign on to a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”. By signing the letter, the invited institutions commit to implementing the 10 points listed in the document.
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One sign at a rally in support of Dr. Tom Alter in San Marcos last week. Courtesy of the Texas AFL-CIO. Texas higher ed is lurching through a turbulent stretch: a court-ordered reinstatement of a fired professor at Texas State, new classroom speech limits across the Texas Tech System,...
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We wish we were surprised by the latest report from the Economic Policy Institute, which has tracked relative wage data for teachers and other degreed professionals for more than four decades. The results for 2024 are in: the “teacher pay penalty,” the wage gap between teachers and similarly educated professionals...
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