More than 30,000 AFT members joined President Randi Weingarten, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Donna Shalala for a telephone town hall discussion of how to safely reopen schools and the federal aid state and local authorities will need to do that.

In Rochester, N.Y, amid paralyzing budget cuts, massive midyear educator layoffs and, suddenly, a pandemic and shutdown, public school students have delivered one clear message: If our schools are under attack, we will fight back. That fight became …

Workers Memorial Day, April 28, happened to coincide this year with the day the Occupational Safety and Health Administration first opened its doors nearly 50 years ago. The unfortunate irony is that OSHA, the government agency responsible for prote…

When you are a child living in a homeless shelter, your possessions are few and far between—and during the coronavirus isolation, with schools temporarily shuttered and public libraries closed, access to books and other learning materials is especially limited.

Fred Rogers, that great public educator and cultural icon, said when “scary things” happen—during crises like the coronavirus pandemic—“look for the helpers.” At the AFT, we are the helpers.