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If we fight together, we can #ThriveTogether.
Our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions. By taking care of our needs as employees, we ensure our students have what they need to succeed. Lawmakers in Austin have refused to give this state’s educators a pay raise, just like they’ve refused to take up bills that would improve their day-to-day working working environment.
We have to raise our voices together until they listen.
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Texas 2-Step: Tell the Legislature What Its Real Priorities Should Be
The clock is ticking on the 89th Legislature. While public school funding remains pending as the House and the Senate negotiate a final proposal, the House Public Education Committee is spending its finite remaining meetings hearing several bills that are worrisome for educators and public school employees.
Speak Up Against Threats to the Freedom to Teach, to Learn, & to Spend Your Own Money
Ask the Senate: Where is the Public Education Funding You Promised?
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Our Fight for Thriving Public Schools
Texas AFT’s Educator’s Bill of Rights for the 89th Legislature
Texas AFT and our 66,000 members across the state have developed an Educator’s Bill of Rights, and we’re bringing it to the Legislature in 2025.
Every educator, parent, and community member who signs on in support of our Educator’s Bill of Rights brings us closer to introducing it in the 89th Legislature and applying enough pressure on lawmakers to pass it. Sign on and show your support.
Our fight to thrive is about creating respectful working conditions with more planning time, fewer added duties and extra paperwork, resources to prevent burnout before it starts, and a defined workday that doesn’t require us to sacrifice our personal lives for our jobs.
This future is possible. Our educators and students need this future. Our state can afford this future. We must demand it.
Winning that future requires every Texan who works in, learns in, and supports public schools to step up and speak out.
Did you know? Every purchase at store.texasaft.org acts as a donation to our union’s political fund and our fight for thriving Texas public schools.
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Talk to Your Co-Workers
Did you know that more than half of Texas AFT members said they joined our union because a colleague or friend encouraged them to do so? Talking to your colleagues about what a thriving public school system means to you is critical to growing our movement and building our power!
Contact Your Legislators
Remember: Your local, state, and national representatives work for you — not the other way around. Their jobs are to represent your interests as a constituent, but they need to hear from you about what those interests are! Find out who your state lawmakers are and call, email, or visit their office.
Write Letters to the Editor
Have you ever sent a letter to the editor of your local newspaper? Letters to the editor are great ways for you to reach a large, diverse audience in your community. They give you a platform to show how widespread support for public schools in Texas is.
