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AFSA President Mark Cannizzaro was elected to the AFL-CIO Executive Council during the opening session of the labor federation’s 30th Constitutional Convention in Minneapolis.
Delegates to the AFL-CIO's 30th Constitutional Convention voted to reelect Liz Shuler as president and Fred Redmond as secretary-treasurer, extending the leadership team's tenure at the helm of the nation's largest labor federation.

As another school year comes to an end, many of us find ourselves in a familiar place, looking back on the months behind us while already beginning to think about the year ahead.

Members of Congress are rated lower in empathy, transparency and ethics; public gives higher scores to public school principals.
New initiative launches on heels of 33 states investigating more than 450 cases of lung illnesses associated with vaping, many of which involve teens and young adults.

Two years ago, we compared the opioid epidemic to the mortgage crisis that nearly cratered the global economy, noting how corporate greed caused both. Recent reporting in The Washington Post and other media outlets reveals an important difference between the two:

Unlike the regulators who were blithely ignorant of what was happening in the financial markets, officials at the Drug Enforcement Administration knew exactly how many opioid pills were being distributed in the United States and where they were going.

People who work every day are “not interested in a sliver of change or gestures” from politicians
For more than three decades, Immigration Judges have had the right to their union—all that is changing.
500 San Diego Unified School District principals, vice principals, school police supervisors, operations managers, and education, food and transportation supervisors join AFSA.