We represent students, parents, higher education faculty and staff, and concerned citizens united in opposition to the dangerous proposed rules. We write at a grave moment in our country’s history, ...

AUSTIN, Texas—Today, the American Association of University Professors and the AFT jointly launched a new comprehensive national policy platform ahead of the 2026 midterms to counter the Trump adminis...

The Trump administration has imposed unprecedented and highly politicized regulations on institutions of higher education, pressured them with coercive funding threats, extorted promises to fall in li...

Our health and safety depend on scientific research. America is currently the world leader in cutting-edge medical and scientific research, and we want to keep it that way. Families need safe medicine...

A federal judge struck down a policy that left many schools worried they would lose federal funding if they did not comply with the Trump administration’s contested interpretation of federal civil rig...

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten, AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following statements in response t...

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### Senate Republicans are holding Pennsylvania’s budget hostage, including crucial investments in transit. The House has passed multiple funding bills, but the state budget is now a month late becaus...

FLEMINGTON  – Six borough residents were arrested early June 9 by agents of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, Flemington Borough Police Chief Jerry Rotella said June...

Rally outside the Lyons VA, 151 Knollcroft Rd, Lyons, NJ because H.R. 1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” includes toxic provisions that would change veterans’ benefits, weaken the protections that ve...

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The Department of Education told BI that it hopes to clear the backlog of income-driven repayment applications "over the next few months."

On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

DES MOINES, IA—Saying that his designs felt oddly familiar as he was drafting them, urban planner William Reston confirmed Monday that while envisioning a revitalized downtown for Des Moines, IA, he h...

A federal prosecutor says the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, has been arrested at an ICE Detention Center where he was protesting its opening.

How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality

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New traffic projections from the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission show a potentially miserable commute for Philly drivers.

The Trump administration is upending the student visa bureaucracy to deport foreign students. University officials are struggling to keep up.

President Donald Trump took his most consequential action against federal employee unions yet late Thursday, signing an executive order aimed at ending collective bargaining for government employees w...

The American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, accusing it of holding funding hostage at Columbia Universi...

NEW YORK– The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the AFT today sued the Trump administration on behalf of their members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding...

The CCP union and administration have been negotiating a contract for more than a year to replace the one that expired last August. But Federation Secretary Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela says there hasn’...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing people’s private data at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Pers...