Resources for COVID-19 Response
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AFT Pennsylvania members provide their students with outstanding educational opportunities, and AFTPA helps by making sure you have the resources you need. AFTPA and Share My Lesson are bringing together vital educational resources:
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We hope you find these materials useful and will upload your own successful lesson plans and ideas to share with colleagues across the commonwealth.
AFT Pennsylvania opposes taxpayer-funded school vouchers, education scholarship tax credits (Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) programs), which are back-door vouchers that use tax breaks to subsidize private and parochial schools. Vouchers represent a false hope for a few children, while most vouchers/scholarships are used by students already attending private schools. Vouchers do not deliver better outcomes for students and leave fewer resources for public school programs that are proven to work.
AFT Pennsylvania's Executive Council has approved a resolution opposing legislative efforts to eliminate school property taxes across the commonwealth. The resolution was approved unanimously by the Executive Council March 10. The property tax elimination bill has not been introduced yet.