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AFSA Joins Hands with Italian School Leaders

AFSA has embarked on an official collaboration with the largest network of school leaders in Italy, Senza Zaino.

Data-Driven AP Lifts Up Students, Teachers

Lizzy Crispin headed the committee that led Leonardo da Vinci High School to become the first and only Blue Ribbon high school in Buffalo, New York.

Increase in Job-Related Deaths

Overall, fatalities on the job rose 5.7%. The rise in fatal occupational injuries from 2021 to 2022 is “alarming and unacceptable” to the AFL-CIO.

House Repeals Tax Targeting Health Care Plans

Legislation passed in the House of Representatives designed to eliminate the so-called "Cadillac tax" on health care.

Court Panel Upholds Trump's Anti-Worker Order for Federal Employees

Trump’s executive orders are part of his, and the GOP’s, constant war on workers.

Teachers Stand Up Against Trump's Migrant Camps

Teachers have frightened migrant kids in their classes, and several reported ICE already had picked up and deported either students, parents or both.

Buffalo Council of Supervisors & Administrators President Crystal Barton, Making a Difference

AFSA Local 10 president profiled in local Buffalo magazine.

Lawsuit Launched Against Betsy DeVos Over National Student Debt

Education Department Deliberately Blocked Access to Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Stiffing Student Borrowers

NEA President: Trump is a Danger to Democracy

Republican President Trump is a danger to democracy and that automatically disqualified him from even being considered for an endorsement from the nation’s largest union.

That explanation came from Lily Eskelsen-Garcia, president of the 3.2-million-member National Education Association (NEA), in her keynote address to the union’s recent convention in Houston, held over the Independence Day weekend.