Honoring Ruth Bader Ginsburg for her contributions to education
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Topic: Rulings
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Court halts DeVos scheme for diverting pandemic aid to private schools
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Espinoza v. Montana: Supreme court vote benefits privatization advocates, harms educators
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Letter to Governor Abbott-Teachers Need Time
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Texas AFT victorious in lawsuit to protect teachers’ rights in district ‘partnerships’ with charter schools
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Landmark court decision recognizes right of students to receive a basic education and access to literacy
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HFT testifies in federal court for immediate halt to state takeover
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Judge rules against state of Texas in suit to end DACA
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Our take on the SCOTUS Janus decision intended to hurt unions
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Running scared? Attorney general frowns on voter-turnout efforts
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Lawsuit settlement ends use of value-added evaluations for Houston teachers
In another huge victory for the right of teachers to be fairly evaluated, Houston ISD agreed, in a settlement of a federal lawsuit brought by seven Houston teachers and our local union-- the Houston Federation of Teachers--not to use value-added scores to terminate a teacher as long as the teacher is unable to independently test or challenge the score. The most significant blow in this lawsuit was...
Read MoreMulti-Factor University of Texas Admission Policy Upheld; Court Deadlocks in Immigration Case
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, today welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court’s four-to-three decision upholding the admissions policy of the University of Texas against a constitutional challenge. Weingarten said: “The AFT, as the nation’s largest union of faculty and a longtime champion of racial equity, joins with our allies in celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision to affirm...
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