Topic: Membership

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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Charter plan soundly defeated at vast majority of campuses in PSJA

Publish Date: May 31, 2018

Reports out of Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD today show that a large majority of schools voted down a district plan to turn over its campuses to a system of charter schools run by a nonprofit. The superintendent had given teachers at each school a vote on whether to move forward with the plan on their campus. Our union members there--PSJA AFT--actively...

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Valley superintendent aims to charterize entire school district, but his promises for protecting teacher rights don’t mesh with state rules

Publish Date: May 29, 2018

Editor's note: Be sure to read today's breaking news on Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath not following his own rules on SB 1882, and his effort to derail our lawsuit against San Antonio ISD. You also can read more about the San Antonio ISD lawsuit here. PSJA Community forum on EmpowerEd! Beginning in February, members of Pharr-San Juan-Alamo AFT began...

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