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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AFT New Jersey is ready to get to work with Rutgers AAUP-AFT, the Council of New Jersey State College Locals, @hpae.bsky.social, the N.J. State AFL-CIO and everyone else in this distinguished working group on improving affordability and long-term sustainability: www.nj.gov/governor/new...
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Governor Sherrill Launches State Health Benefits Program Reform Working Group
TRENTON – Governor Mikie Sherrill today announced the launch of the State Health Benefits Program (SHBP) Reform Working Group, fulfilling a commitment made last month as part of the Administration’s a...
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Jen Higgins @galprogressist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Another example as to why education should be a public good and not a profit center.
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Inside the Outrageous Collapse of a ‘Montessori Ponzi’
A man with a vision set out to revolutionize preschool. It became a $440 million fiasco.
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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.nj.com/education/20...
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Jen Higgins @galprogressist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You can be sure that I’m voting for elected officials who will do something to address affordability, AI and anxiety—because no one should have to worry about their privacy or safety at home, in school, or at their workplace. @aft.org @aftnewjersey.bsky.social @rweingarten.bsky.social
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AI safety must be the priority
Officials must act now to make safety as important as innovation.
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Jen Higgins @galprogressist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I wish more Democrats would take this approach regarding the culture war around transgender humans.
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Sherrod Brown Tries a New Retort to Criticism on Transgender Issues
A spot from the Senate candidate in Ohio seeks to dismiss the Republican Party’s focus on transgender rights as a distraction from economic issues.
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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“These midterms, we are doing everything we can to reassure Americans voting is safe and secure. And that when they turn out, hopefully in overwhelming numbers, the will of the people cannot be denied.” — AFT President Randi Weingarten www.aft.org/press-releas... @aft.org @aaup.org @aflcio.org
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Civil rights coalition files federal lawsuit challenging threatened use of ICE and federal law enforcement at polling locations
WASHINGTON— Nine organizations representing immigrants, communities of color, and workers — the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Mi Familia en Accion,
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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
To read the entirety of “A National Call to Action to the Secretary of Education,” click here: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul... @aft.org @aaup.org
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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Jen Higgins @galprogressist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Finally SCOTUS stands up for democracy. Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Restrictions on Mail Voting
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Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Restrictions on Mail Voting: Live Updates
The ruling blocks the Trump administration from dramatically changing how Americans vote by mail in the midterm elections.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How cool to be at Phoenix Rising Teacher Academy today- in Newark. WE started this grow your own teacher pathway program with the Newark Public Schools & Montclair State in 2019. This is now the 6th Cohort
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
To ease NJ's health insurance crisis, pass the Patient and Provider Protection Act @galprogressist.bsky.social www.newjerseyhills.com/bernardsvill...
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To ease NJ's health insurance crisis, pass the Patient and Provider Protection Act
The affordability crisis will be a major focus of the upcoming congressional elections, and a big part of that discussion will be the cost of health insurance. While the federal
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When AI is used in schools, parents & educators deserve transparency, students deserve safety & everyone deserves strong privacy protections. That’s what this agreement between @aft.org, @uft.org & @microsoft.com delivers w/enforceable safeguards that put students & families & educators first.
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AFT @aft.org · 09/09/2026
AFT, @uft.org and @microsoft.com have reached a first-of-its-kind National AI Safety & Privacy Standard, establishing legally enforceable protections for students, families and educators. Read more: www.aft.org/press-releas...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Vermont is voting on a ballot measure this fall that would create a right to organize in the state constitution. As far as I can tell this is a rare labor referendum on the ballot this fall. www.wcax.com/2026/09/04/v...
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AFT @aft.org · 06/09/2026
The union difference is real: Better pay. Better benefits. Greater economic security. When workers have a union and a voice on the job, we can bargain for a better life for ourselves and our families. That’s the value of belonging. #LaborDay
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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Kean would not be among the best without its faculty: www.insidernj.com/press-releas... @aft.org
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Kean University Named to TIME's Inaugural List of America's Best Colleges - Insider NJ
UNION, N.J. — Kean University has been named to TIME’s inaugural edition of America’s Best Colleges 2026-2027, recognizing the University among 500 institutions nationwide for strong student outcomes,...
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Glad to be at the March on Washington In 63 we fought for the Vote for all. Today , 63 years later, we defend the Vote. The assignment is now ours.
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Linda @luvgoldnz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Good Morning from Lake ONTARIO! 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦
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AFT @aft.org · 28/08/2026
In a new Substack post, Rabbi Mike Moskowitz reflects on what it takes to have a heart-centered strategy in the fight for workers' rights. "When we join the fight for what we think is right, we declare with our whole selves that those beliefs are worth the effort, risk, and sacrifice."
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Fighting Without Fear
A Heart Centered Strategy for Worker’s Rights
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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
@aft.org @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social @ramapoaft.bsky.social @aaup.org @govsherrill.bsky.social
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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
www.edweek.org/leadership/t...
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Teachers Are Facing More Aggression at Work. How Can Schools Protect Them?
Teachers feel less victimized when they have their principal's support
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Jen Higgins @galprogressist.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yesterday I went to Delaney Hall to visit with Dr. Norma Bowe and Grace Global's Mobile Health Clinic and be with Labor Eyes on ICE. Dr. Bowe is doing amazing work supporting families visiting their loved ones who are detained. @aftnewjersey.bsky.social @aft.org
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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
“This is not innovation. This is just cutting corners.” — @aaup.org President Todd Wolfson apnews.com/article/thre...
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3-year college degrees grow more popular in the US, saving time and cash. But critics aren't sold
A growing number of colleges are offering three-year degree programs, which cut a year off a traditional bachelor's with reduced credit.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Linda McMahon really thinks this is ok.. OMG AI and screens substituting for real humans at the beginning of every day Schools are essentially human endeavors. Forget the education issues, starting school like this every day is not how you connect with children x.com/atrupar/stat...
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) on X
Linda McMahon on successful uses of AI in classrooms: "The first couple hours every day students really have on headphones, they're in front of their computers, they're getting their subjects fed to t...
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
While Target has stayed silent on ICE’s ongoing operations in MN, its own hometown.,communities across the country are fighting back, shopping local not Target for back to school This is our ad in the NYT today.
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yes, Trump is definitely inside a billionaire bubble. He doesn't get what Americans are going through with his inflation and economy because he and his billionaire friends are doing just fine. www.ms.now/news/news-an...
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Trump is living inside a billionaire bubble in the White House
The president touts cryptocurrency and data centers while ordinary Americans worry about inflation.
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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...
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Trump bid to alter Head Start could harm NJ toddlers, advocates say
Providers say vulnerable infants and toddlers are at risk of harm if the Trump administration proceeds with proposed changes to Head Start.
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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“We’re not talking about a random person spreading opinion as fact. We’re talking about a scholar giving his professional view.” — Stockton Federation of Teachers President Tara Luke www.nj.com/education/20... @aft.org @aaup.org
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A N.J. professor says a wealthy donor got his words about Israel erased from a school website
Stockton says donors have no decision-making authority, but the timing of the removal has alarmed faculty, students and alumni.
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Jen Higgins @galprogressist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#ShopSmartNotTarget @aft.org @aftlocal1904.bsky.social
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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The @aft.org is among the plaintiffs: www.highereddive.com/news/coaliti...
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Coalition sues Trump administration over 4-year student visa cap
Plaintiffs argued that the new rule would be “catastrophic” for universities and international students, and have asked a federal judge to block it.
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nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Their level of profound stupidity is contagious!
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AFT @aft.org · 17/08/2026
The Trump admin is clawing back credit towards loan forgiveness for those in the PSLF program. @rweingarten.bsky.social: “It means borrowers who could see the light at the end of the tunnel are now being forced to pay more and defer their dreams for months and years on end.”
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‘Profoundly cruel’: Errors upend student loan forgiveness program
Trump’s Education Department is clawing back credit toward loan forgiveness due to errors it said were made during the Biden administration.
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Jen Higgins @galprogressist.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"The student loan system shouldn’t be weaponized by a president using hardworking Americans to line the pockets of the wealthy." — @rweingarten.bsky.social 's new column hits Trump for making student debt a hidden affordability crisis. www.aft.org/column/stude... @aft.org @aftnewjersey.bsky.social
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Student debt: The hidden affordability crisis
This is a five-alarm fire exacerbating America’s affordability crisis.Summer should be a time to take a well-earned vacation and enjoy being with family and friends. But for millions of Americans, sum...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS US Postal Service from implementing Section 3 of Trump’s anti voting EO. Has nationwide impact. A huge victory for voters and defeat for Trump and DOJ. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...
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🚨 League of Women Voters of Massachusetts et al v. Trump et al
Learn more here.
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AFT @aft.org · 11/08/2026
@rweingarten.bsky.social joined @lincolnsquare.media to talk about changes to student loan payment plans which have sent costs skyrocketing—including sharing the story of an educator in Kansas whose monthly payments have gone up from $57 to $815. Watch here ⤵️
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Trump's Making Student Loan Debt Great Again | The Weekly Assignment with Randi Weingarten
YouTube video by Lincoln Square
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We're suing to stop the admin. from de-professionalizing nursing, architecture, social work, teaching and other careers. Trump's tax bill for the rich eviscerated education access for poor and working-class students who deserve the opportunity to pursue their dreams, too. www.aft.org/press-releas...
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‘We Are Professionals’: Coalition of Unions Sue to Block New Student Loan Rule that Will Hurt Patient Care and Worsen Staffing Crises
WASHINGTON—A coalition of unions representing hundreds of thousands of public service and healthcare workers filed a lawsuit this week challenging the Department of Education’s new Reimagining and Imp...
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Even this Supreme Court has ruled that people born in the US are citizens. Trump's latest bigoted attempt to undermine constitutional rights will meet the same fate. apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump again tries to restrict birthright citizenship after Supreme Court ruling
President Donald Trump says he is once again trying to limit birthright citizenship in the U.S. He signed two executive actions on immigration.
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AFT New Jersey @aftnewjersey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“As with the first [higher education] compact, the best path forward is for higher education workers to organize and demand that their administrations and governing boards reject Compact 2.0.” — AFT President Randi Weingarten and AAUP President Todd Wolfson www.aft.org/press-releas...
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AFT, AAUP Respond to Trump Compact 2.0
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Trump administration’s new higher education comp...
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is disgusting and unacceptable. President Trump withheld much-needed funding for education, energy projects, healthcare, housing, and infrastructure from states that didn't vote for him in 2024. Federal funding should not be subject to political vendettas. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Jen Higgins @galprogressist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Are we winning yet?
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Measles Cases Hit New Record in U.S., as Vaccination Rates Wane
More measles cases have been reported in the United States in the last two years than in all the years from 2000 through 2024 combined.
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AFT @aft.org · 22/07/2026
Dolores Huerta accepted an award at the AFT's convention with a rallying call for our members to serve as the guardians of democracy and urging delegates to build community coalitions in defense of public education, turn out voters, and finally pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Watch here ⤵️
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Dolores Huerta receives AFT award
YouTube video by AFT
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AFT Progressive Caucus @aftprog.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Thank you, AFT convention delegates, for your support! One Caucus. One Slate. One Vote. #AFTPC26
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AFT @aft.org · 19/07/2026
Dolores Huerta, the civil rights icon who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America—which fights for the rights, safety, power and dignity of agricultural workers—was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the AFT convention.
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Dolores Huerta honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award
Dolores Huerta, the civil rights icon who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America—which fights for the rights, safety, power and dignity of agricultural workers—was given the Lifetime Achievemen...
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Healthcare professionals know best what their patients need to recover and thrive. Thank you Sarina and thank you @OFNHP.bsky.social for standing up for your patients. bsky.app/profile/aft....
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AFT Progressive Caucus @aftprog.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
In appreciation of the late Beatrice Lumpkin. Her memory is a blessing for AFT Local #1 and the entire labor union movement that stands on her shoulders. Rest in power, Sister Beatrice #AFTPC26 #AFT26
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Viri Pettersen @mspetter.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Jen Higgins @galprogressist.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I am honored and humbled to be elected to the @aft.org Executive Council. I look forward to continuing to serve @aftnewjersey.bsky.social members in this new role. Onward! #AFT26 #aftpc26
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