‘Which Union Should I Join?’
Every year when school starts, we see and hear the same question from educators and staff: “Which organization should I join?”
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Aug. 11, 2023: We take care of us
Friday, August 11, 2023 Members of the Houston Federation of Teachers, along with community members, parents, and students, participate in a read-in before the Houston ISD Board of Managers meeting Thursday, Aug. 10. The protest was in response to state-installed Superintendent Mike Miles' plans to close district libraries and transform...
Read MoreUnpacking the Select Committee Report
Rep. Gina Hinojosa did not sign on to the House Select Committee’s report, instead releasing her own recommendations, outlined in the report’s appendices. Chief among her concerns: that teacher and school staff raises will once again be held hostage by private school voucher proponents. In June 2023, Speaker Dade Phelan...
Read MoreDo you know how your representative voted? Find out.
With a $33 billion surplus available, many educators across this state had high hopes for the 88th Legislature. Yet, here we are, one regular session and two special sessions later with no basic allotment increase and no guaranteed pay raises for teachers and school staff. Given those results, as well...
Read MoreAug. 4, 2023: Houston, we have a problem
Friday, August 4, 2023 Alliance/AFT member and Dallas ISD teacher Rosie Curts attends a Houston community protest this summer against TEA’s takeover and Mike Miles’ appointment as superintendent. It starts in Houston. It doesn’t end there. We start this week with a message from Texas AFT President Zeph Capo and...
Read MoreUnpacking the 88th Legislature
The 88th Legislature is (mostly) over. Do you know how your representative voted on public education? Find your rep | See how they voted | Contact your rep With a $33 billion surplus available, we had high hopes. High hopes that the Texas Legislature would step up and deliver for...
Read MoreTogether We Can Thrive
It isn't enough for our public schools to survive. Our students in Killeen — and across Texas — deserve schools that help them thrive. It's Your Time to Thrive Our fight to thrive is about creating respectful working conditions with more planning time, fewer added duties and extra paperwork, resources...
Read MoreJuly 28, 2023: AFT in Washington, in Austin, in Your District
Friday, July 28, 2023 Education Austin, Houston Federation of Teachers Presidents Represent Texas at Nation’s Capitol Last week, two Texas AFT local union presidents traveled to Washington D.C. to represent Texas educators on the national stage. Jackie Anderson, president of the Houston Federation of Teachers, journeyed to D.C. to participate...
Read MoreUnpacking the Legislature: Your Working Conditions
Northeast Houston AFT President Shonda Below with a student at Texas AFT’s Public Education Advocacy Day in March 2023. Photo by Mariana Krueger, CCR Studios. When the Texas Education Agency released the results of their now infamously ignored Teacher Vacancy Taskforce Report, their recommendations fell into three broad categories: Compensation...
Read MoreJuly 21, 2023: The Will to Thrive
Friday, July 21, 2023 The Will to Thrive So far, no statistics have motivated our state leaders to fix the chronic underfunding of our public education system. Not the fact that Texas is 39th in the nation for per-pupil funding of its public schools. Nor the fact that we are...
Read MoreUnpacking the Legislature: School Privatization
Over the course of the regular legislative session, one topic cast a shadow over the entire public education conversation. It wasn't the harmful overtesting of our state’s children or our state’s severely underfunded classrooms. It was private school vouchers.
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Thank you for joining Alief AFTSE. We have created this Resource Bank to provide you and your family with important issue and benefit updates. We build power by increasing participation in the union movement, by winning elections and the public narrative, and by engaging members and communities. Building community inside...
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