Over the last ten months, the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF), AFT Local 3544, has bargained in good faith with the University of Oregon administration while striving to move toward a living wage, to maintain coverage of health insurance costs, and to make gains in terms of summer funding, support for international students, parental leave, and childcare subsidies. The university is proving reluctant to provide these simple things to graduate employees, despite the fact that graduate employee working conditions are student learning conditions.

GTFF represents over 1,400 graduate

Excellent Schools Project is Not an Excellent Plan

The following is in response to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution's January 2nd article titled Atlanta school board could vote in March on school rating plan.

While the "Excellent Schools Project" is being sold to the public as a way to rate Atlanta public schools and identify those that don’t measure up, it’s really nothing more than a blame game public relations stunt that fails to address the real issue: the school district failed to provide Atlanta’s educators with the resources they need to carry out its lofty “Turn Around Plan,” and now

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Media Advisory for:                                                                                                         
Tuesday, September 10, 2019               

                                                                
Ron Fowler
404-315-0222 o. 
404-731-5205 c.
atlanta@aftgeorgia.org
http://ga.aft.org

Atlanta Federation of Teachers and others speak to the search and hiring process of the next superintendent and the future of Atlanta Public Schools

Atlanta, GA – Education organizations, community groups and others will speak to best practices in searching for and hiring a

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Considerations in Superintendent Search Criteria and Selection

There is no off-the-shelf checklist for the profile of the “perfect” superintendent or school system leader, largely because context and community matter. While credentials, skills, and achievements are, of course, significant, the art of superintendent selection is in the match to context and community. With that in mind, it is not only the content of the candidate profile that matters, but also the process of developing it. Thinking about superintendent characteristics just as a task for the governing body alone is a

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For Immediate Release                                                                                                          
September 8, 2019                                                                                                              

Contact:
Ron Fowler
404-315-0222 o.
404-731-5205 c.
atlanta@aftgeorgia.org
http://ga.aft.org

Atlanta Federation of Teachers’ Open Letter to the Atlanta Board of Education

Maria Carstarphen has pursued a school privatization agenda from the beginning of her tenure as school superintendent. She has contracted out the majority of the Carver

September 5, 2019

Dr. Michael A. Erwin, Board Chair

DeKalb County Board of Education

1701 Mountain Industrial Blvd.

Stone Mountain, GA 30083

Dear Board Chair Erwin:

The Georgia Federation of Teachers concurs with the DeKalb NAACP regarding the school district’s request to raise the millage rate. The present administration has almost double the budget from that which was under former Superintendent Michael Thurmond.

Again, we ask as others have asked for a Forensic Audit.

Sincerely,

Verdaillia Turner
President

VT/ksf

CC:      DeKalb County Board of Education Members

Contact:

Media Advisory for:                                                                                                               Ron Fowler
Thursday, August 1, 2019                                                                                                   404-315-0222
atlanta@aftgeorgia.org

http://ga.aft.org

Georgia Federation of Teachers and Allies Rally to Demand Atlanta Board of Education Stop Privatizing Atlanta Public Schools

Q:  What does the Atlanta Board of Education and President Trump's Secretary of Education have in common?

A:  Taking public funds from public

Q:    What does the Atlanta Board of Education and President Trump’s Secretary of Education have in common?

A:     Taking public funds from public schools and giving them to private nonprofit and for-profit charter management companies!

TIME for ACTION

CALLING ALL CITIZENS, ORGANIZATIONS & GROUPS WHO ARE TIRED of insulting DOUBLE TALK

COME OUT AND STAND IN SOLIDARITY

FULL FLYER

Stop Privatizing Public Schools

Stop using taxpayer’s dollars to ENRICH private charter management companies, the charter industry and giving away our buildings

Charters choose, parents lose

Stop neo-segregation of our

Letter to Mayor Bottoms & Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent & Board Chair

Click here to see letter

Join us as we host a screening of Backpack Full of Cash on the following dates:

Tuesday, May 7th in SW Atlanta, GA (full flyer)

Hosted by: Elizabeth Baptist Church
Time: 6:30pm (doors open at 6pm)
Location: Elizabeth Baptist Church
4245 Cascade Rd., SW, Atlanta, GA 30331

**This schedule will be updated as screenings are announced

Are you aware that PRIVATIZATION for PROFIT is well underway in schools, city governments, transportation, etc. in Georgia? People are being elected to office with these ends in mind, are financed by for-profit entities and are soft selling decisions to authorize this