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SEPTEMBER 1 Labor Day Parade Special Membership Meeting March with the PFT at the Labor Day Parade Join PFT President Jerry Jordan at a Special Membership Meeting Click on the headline for details |
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Thirteen AFTPA union activists received the AFT's Living Legacy Award at the AFT Convention in Chicago this summer. |
In negotiations, challenges can be political, philosophical or financial. |
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The AFT Pennsylvania was a leading member of a statewide coalition the lobbied successfully for the biggest increase in state education funding in history. |
AFT Pennsylvania is reaching out to charter school teachers and staff, with phone banks, home visits, social networking opportunities and professional development. |
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Despite intense lobbying by retired school and public employees, legislators left Harrisburg without passing a much-needed cost-of-living increase for school and public employee pensions. |
Pennsylvania Labor History Society 34th Annual Conference, Sept. 26-27 in Philadelphia, will honor the1938 Public Sector Strike and Labor Leader William McEntee. |
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After teaching kindergarten for 51 years in Philadelphia, Dr. Erlene Bass Nelson has retired. |
Gina S. Hart, an English teacher at Bodine High School, was named the 2008, Dr. Ruth Wright Hayre Teacher of the Year. |
Outstanding high school teachers in Philadelphia were recognized with a Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award in April The Lindback Foundation distributed the first annual awards and checks, to one teacher from each of 62 Philadelphia public high schools received the honor. |
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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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In the same week, two studies shed light on an alarming reality in Philadelphia: The city has the highest incarceration rates in the nation and one of the lowest graduation rates. PFT president Jerry T. Jordan comments in the Friday, April 11, Philadelphia Inquirer. |
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The Education Law Center has submitted a formal request to the PA Department of Education asking it to investigate whether school districts across the state are violating state rules on when a student can enroll in school.
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U nion 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 School Reform Commission approved the School Calendar for the 2008-2009 School Year at its March 12 meeting. The first day of school for staff is Sept. 2 and the last day is June 23. Click on the headline to see the calendar. |
