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NMFT BARGAINING UPDATE■ District Claim: “NMUSD has provided 20.6% in raises over 4 years.”➡True, but misleading. The state funded COLA was 20.92% during that time period. Other districts gave the full COLA salary increases and have similar health benefits. NMUSD’s 2% salary increase offer this… Read more: NMFT BARGAINING UPDATE: Setting the Record Straight

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… Read more: A New Purpose for Education

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,… Read more: Message from Randi Weingarten

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… Read more: Newport-Mesa Federation of Teachers Local 1794

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… Read more: The AFT calls for freedom to teach

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… Read more: President’s Message from Last Night’s School Board Meeting