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Press Release:Embargo Until 5 /6/2008 CONTACT: Mary J. Armstrong 314-781-2077 ST. LOUIS—The Construction Careers Center in St. Louis will become Missouri’s first unionized charter school, a move initiated by the school’s employees to improve working and learning conditions, AFT St. Louis, Local 420, announced today.
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Q & A
Q. I was sent the following memo by my principal. I am a tenured teacher. What are they talking about?
A. The following memo could be confusing. Probationary teacher contracts were mailed last week. The memo does not apply to tenured teachers.
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Some states are making discernible progress in writing clear, specific, content-focused standards that define what students are expected to learn in every grade or course in English, math, science and social studies, according to a new AFT report, which also offers advice for states whose standards need improvement. In its latest review of state standards, |
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McElroy Reflects on 'A Nation at Risk' 25 Years Later Twenty-five years ago, the landmark "A Nation at Risk" report put school reform on the front burner and summoned a nation to action. On this important anniversary, AFT president Edward J. McElroy urges Americans to finish what we started: Twenty-five years ago, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released "A Nation at Risk," an honest but bleak assessment of America's edu... |
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The latest information on CEO salaries from the AFL-CIO shows that even as the sub-prime mortgage crisis has led to soaring numbers of home foreclosures, top executives at the financial companies that helped created the crisis continue to earn outrageous salaries. "When CEOs are paid obscene amounts to make bad decisions, it hurts average Americans who hold mortgages, have bank accounts... |
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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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Click Above for List and Contact Information for Missouri State Senators |
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No on HB-1911: Our teachers should be highly qualified and certified by a College or University and the Missouri Deparment of Elementatry and Secnodary Education. The ABCTE Company is not a legitmate alternative to "real" certifcation. |
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More than 20,000 paraprofessionals and school-related personnel represented by the Oregon School Employees Association have voted to affiliate with the AFT, marking the largest affiliation of an independent union in AFT history. |
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President Bush on Nov. 13 vetoed the spending bill passed by Congress last week for education, labor and health programs for fiscal year 2008 and asked that Congress support his fiscal year spending request. |
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In a historic decision on May 29, the Missouri Supreme Court gave public employees, including teachers, the right to bargain collectively with employers.
The ruling supports Article 1, Section 29 in the Missouri Constitution, which provides “That employees shall have the right to organize and bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing.”
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