Want stronger, more sustainable work-based learning partnerships? Start with your local industry association—and a system that helps those partnerships grow and last.

WASHINGTON—The AFT today released a new national survey that reveals a teaching profession in crisis, with educators stressed out, working second jobs, battling rising costs and forking out hundreds o...

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Trump administration unveiled a proposal to scrap hundreds of federal regulations governing Head Start, the early edu...

Protecting our elections isn't a new fight for us, but as Election Day approaches, the stakes couldn't be higher. Join AFT President Randi Weingarten and activists from across the country for the off...

Americans know that our strength has always been built on the simple notion that America is a place where many become one. The AFT, as the representative of those who teach and care for our next gener...

Check out Share My Lesson's "On-Demand" back to school webinars before starting the new school year! Discover hundreds of topics and brush up your skills!

Reading Universe has created five new courses that, though designed specifically for paraprofessionals, will also be helpful for administrators, literacy coaches and teachers supported by paraprofessi...

Randi Weingarten and Mike Pierce: Ballooning student loan payments are Trump's latest contribution to the affordability crisis

Beginning in July 2026, millions of Americans with student debt will see their monthly student loan bills spike as a result of President Trump’s “One Big

The One Big Bill campaign is an effort supported by the AFT and several other organizations to document the stories of millions of Americans struggling with skyrocketing student loan debt and other ha...

Our recent report asks a bold question: What would the United States look like if we tripled union membership? We find a range of economic and social benefits—such as higher wages, greater access to h...

Whether you are taking the summer for some rest and relaxation ... or you're ready to earn some professional development credit or teach summer school, Share My Lesson has what educators need most.

“We are currently in the longest period of inaction on the federal minimum wage since its inception in 1938,” economist Sylvia Allegretto wrote in a recent report.

Foreword Imagine union membership tripling in the United States. It may sound radical—if you’ve forgotten history. In fact, more than 1 in 3 private-sector workers belonged to a union in the 1950s. Th...

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On Tuesday, July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston, Texas. He was a dad driving a work van with his crew when he was gunned down. Then on Monday, July 13, ICE un...

Shifting deadlines are confusing businesses as the end of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and others looms, making them ineligible to live and work in the United States.