Topic: Membership

Unpacking the 89th Legislature: Your Right to a Secure Retirement 

Texas AFT members at our 2025 Public Education Advocacy Day at the Capitol. One Socorro AFT member holds a sign with one of the 10 essential rights in our Educator’s Bill of Rights: the right to secure retirement.   Texas educators deserve better than broken promises and one-time checks. Despite a historic push for pension reform this legislative session, the 89th...

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Houston ISD: School is out, but the headlines don’t stop

Signs from the No More Harm rally at the 2024 AFT Convention in Houston. Photo by Mariana Krueger, CCR Studios.   It’s been less than a month since the Texas Education Agency announced a two-year extension of the Houston ISD takeover by Commissioner Mike Morath’s appointed board of managers and Superintendent Mike Miles. If readers were hoping that was the exclamation...

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