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  1. 1 February 2024

    American Federation of Teachers Executive Council adopts resolution unanimously calling for the end of the Israel Hamas war by negotiated bilateral cease-fire, promoting steps toward a two-state solution for Israeli and Palestinian self-determination

    News

    The American Federation of Teachers Executive Council, the body representing the union’s 1.72 million educators, higher education professionals, healthcare workers, and public employees, unanimously adopted an omnibus statement addressing the war in the Middle East and its impact on the United States. The American Federation of Teachers is a member...

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  3. 14 November 2023

    USA: Legislators recognize education support personnel play a critical role in providing quality education

    News

    The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the National Education Association (NEA), both affiliated to Education international (EI), have welcomed the introduction of the Paraprofessionals and Education Support Staff Bill of Rights , seeking to provide fair wages, comprehensive benefits and equitable working conditions to the dedicated paraeducators, classroom assistants,...

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  4. 27 July 2023

    Education unions grappling with Artificial Intelligence: we snooze, we lose.

    Rob Weil

    Worlds of Education

    There is a lot of speculation regarding the future of teaching and learning in compulsory education, especially with recent developments in technology. The world-wide release of ChatGPT and other generative artificial intelligence platforms have created a plethora of new, even more difficult, questions. What role will these AI systems play...

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  5. 17 May 2023

    Who our students see

    Anthony Brisson

    Worlds of Education

    As an educator who taught at the secondary and university levels, I quickly realized education support personnel (ESP) are the glue to our public schools. ESP are often the first people our students see when they are going to school, and the last people our students see when they get...

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  6. 14 April 2023

    In defense of public education

    Randi Weingarten

    Worlds of Education

    The present article reproduces excerpts from the speech given at the National Press Club on March 28, 2023.

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Cooperation Projects

  1. 2025

    AFT/TUESWU Professional Development Program

    The AFT and the TUESWU are working together on a trade union capacity building project to address the needs of the TUESWUs education workforace impacted by the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The content of the project addresses the well-being of the workforce that has been subject to trauma...

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  2. 2025 - 2026

    Educators Determined to End SRGBV

    The EDE-SRGBV initiative is an Education International Africa (EIA) programme supported by National Education Association (NEA-USA), implemented across several African countries (Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Uganda). It builds on EI's long term work on ending School Related Gender Based Violence (SRGBV), strengthening the capacity of edcation unions, teachers, and communities to...

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  3. 2024

    Movimientos Pedagógico Latinoamericano, RED de Trabajadoras de la Educación para America Latina, Poblaciones Indígenas, Observatorio Latinoamericano de Políticas Educativas (OLPE)

    Desde la IEAL, se desea lograr una estructura sindical docente cada vez más fortalecida, con mayor fuerza político-organizativa, para enfrentar lo que se viene describiendo como arremetida antisindical en los diversos países. Inclusive, para tener mayor fuerza sindical para enfrentar los diversos contextos nacionales y situaciones coyunturales. Asimismo, se desea...

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