Topic: Membership

Higher Education Committee gets demographic forecast, hears support for community colleges

Publish Date: February 14, 2019

The House Higher Education Committee met yesterday to get an outlook on post-secondary education and heard from State Demographer Lloyd B. Potter for an overview of the changing population of Texas. Potter said 380,000 new Texans were added between 2017 and 2018, more than any other state, with most growth in the Latino population. Raymund Paredes, Commissioner for the Texas...

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El Paso AFT fights grant paving way for charter takeovers

Publish Date: October 3, 2018

Tomorrow, El Paso AFT will be taking on the pro-privatization charter industry at a Special Meeting of the El Paso ISD School Board. The Board is scheduled to consider a $5 million Texas Education Agency Transformation Zone grant, which would effectively turn over management of eight district schools to one or more private vendors. Currently, the New Tech Network and Engage...

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AFT leaders take part in ‘Poor People’s Campaign’ to highlight damaging impacts of poverty on education

Publish Date: June 12, 2018

AFT has pledged to support a movement--the Poor People's Campaign--to demand investment and equity in education, protection of the right to vote, and affordable high-quality healthcare and housing. The Poor People's Campaign originated in 1968 with Martin Luther King Jr. and his call to end poverty. The recent "revival" of the movement was inspired by the Rev. William Barber II, the...

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