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Delegates to the 2008 AFT convention elected a new slate of national officers on July 14 in Chicago, voting to install Randi Weingarten as president, Antonia Cortese as secretary-treasurer and Lorretta Johnson as executive vice president.
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Strong opposition to statewide, mandatory graduation exit exams seems to have derailed the plan. Instead, Gov. Rendell's administration has settled on a compromise that would make the tests optional this school year.
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The Education Policy and Leadership Center Education Notebook recaps education-related legislative and regulatory activity in Harrisburg.
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AFT Pennsylvania members can take advantage of hundreds of grant, scholarship and award opportunities for themselves, their schools and their students. Now updated monthly.
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The Pennsylvania General Assembly approved the largest dollar increase – $275 million – for basic education funding in at least two decades and ensured that public education will remain a priority by locking future funding targets into law. Other bills regulate charter schools, provide university funding and change the community college funding formula. Read the EPLC summary.
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Over a period of just seven weeks, from Jan. 14-March 3, a total of 26,419 people took the online 2008 Health Care for America Survey sponsored by the AFL-CIO and Working America. Most are insured and employed. Most are college graduates. More than half are union members.
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