Category: Newsletter

Dear NMFT Members, We want to provide you with an update on our 2025–2026 contract reopener negotiations. Your NMFT negotiating team met yesterday, Thursday 10/23/25 and today, Friday 10/24/25 for negotiations with the District. While we made progress in areas, the parties could not come to an agreement over salary increases. The District proposed a last,…

Dear NMFT Members, We want to provide you with an update on our 2025–2026 contract reopener negotiations. Your NMFT negotiating team met yesterday, Thursday 10/16/25 for negotiations with the District. We have tentative mutual agreements regarding:  We are currently working towards agreement on: The district’s current proposal for our salary increase is two percent (2%).  NMFT strongly believes…

Dear NMFT Members: NMFT and the District met for the 2025-2026 contract reopener bargaining on Wednesday September 24th and Friday September 26th.  Salary increase continues to be one of the most important items we have been discussing. To date, we have seen little movement from the District in this important matter. Since June, NMFT has met…

Hello NMFT Members, We want to provide you with an update on our 2025–2026 contract reopener negotiations. Your NMFT negotiating team met Monday, 9/8 for negotiations prep for negotiations with the District on Tuesday and Wednesday, (9/9 and 9/10). We are getting close to some mutual agreements regarding: We are currently working towards agreement on:…

By Pamela Cantor Education has long been central to the promise of the United States of America. But our current education system has never been designed to promote the equitable opportunities or outcomes that our children and families deserve and that our democracy, society, and economy now need. The people who built the education system…

05/16/2021 Back to School for All: Return, Recover and Reimagine by Randi WeingartenPresident, American Federation of Teachers Schools must open this fall. In person. Five days a week. With the space and health safeguards to do so. And my union, the American Federation of Teachers, is committed to making it happen.Weingarten speaking at AFT headquarters…

March 13, 2021, marked a year of our experience of the Pandemic. Throughout this time you have endured many obstacles and experiences to get to this point of the year. You have gone through the reopening of schools process, experienced the summer covid surge, experienced the school board’s decisions of giving secondary students incompletes and…

AFT President Randi Weingarten today delivered a major address on the crisis hollowing out the teaching profession—massive disinvestment in public education and deprofessionalization. In her speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., she called for reinvestment and freedom to teach. It was followed by two panels featuring education leaders who laid out pragmatic…

This week is parent conference week for our elementary schools. It’s an opportunity for teachers to discuss student achievement, academic supports, and hold strategic and focused conversations about each child. Throughout this year, teachers had to dispel misinformation, stop rumors, and remind parents we are in fact conducting In-Person Instruction, unlike many Districts in the…

Patience—counseled by former Vice President Joe Biden all election week as Americans waited for votes to be counted—finally paid off Nov. 7, four days after Election Day, when he won in Pennsylvania and gained enough Electoral College votes to acquire a new title: president-elect. The win in Pennsylvania, and just a few hours later in…