There is a general sense that the health system is broken, 3 spurring interest in major reforms. The work to reform the US ...

In December 2025, the AFT asked members to tell us about how debt and financial stress affected their lives, and more than ...

As a nurse working for a nonprofit community hospital, Marcia had seen what medical debt can do. One of her patients, ...

To get a working-class tax cut, to pass living-wage legislation, to get limitless money out of politics, to fix the ...

Why should I trust you?” she asked. I was shocked and hurt and offended all at the same time. What had I done? I had recently ...

And the longer I worked there, the more I needed healing too. George Rust, MD, MPH, is a professor at the Florida State ...

AFT President Randi Weingarten joined American Federation of Professional Educators of North Carolina President Joanna Loftis ...

On Sept. 27, the AFT’s Higher Education division hosted a screening and panel discussion with creators of and participants in ...

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after the Trump administration released new regulations for its unpopular national private school voucher scheme: ...

How does the mind work—and especially how does it learn? Teachers’ instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut ...

WASHINGTON—Today, the AFT launched a suite of comprehensive resources to help educators as they grapple with the rapidly expanding use of artificial intelligence in education. First, is a pioneering ...