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On Wednesday, February 10, Governor Snyder presented to the Legislature his recommendations for the state’s budget. The Michigan House and Senate will now study the governor’s [...]

Lansing politicians are trying to punish teachers and school employees for standing up for their students. The Senate Education Committee rammed through three bills despite overwhelming [...]

Hillary Clinton posted the following on twitter today: No one would tolerate these conditions in a wealthy suburb. Detroit students and teachers deserve better. -H https://t.co/z07LVKNSsx — [...]

President David Hecker issued the following statement after Governor Snyder’s 2016 State of the state address: “While Gov. Snyder acknowledged the crisis facing Detroit Public Schools must [...]

Over 210 members from 38 locals, representing teachers and school employees from PreK-12 traditional public schools, charter schools, community colleges and universities, came together for a [...]

The first two bills dealing with Detroit schools were introduced Thursday by Sen. Geoff Hansen – SB 710 and SB 711. Both bills were sent to the Government Operations Committee. We expect the [...]

AFT Michigan, a union of 99 locals and 35,000 members working across the state in PreK-12, intermediate school districts, community colleges, and universities, is seeking  a legislative organizer [...]

EMU Board of Regents Chooses to Continue Educational Achievement Authority Experiment The American Federation of Teachers Michigan released the following statements regarding the decision by the [...]

  Children of Detroit deserve a quality education and the EAA has not delivered The American Federation of Teachers Michigan released the following statements regarding the decision by the [...]

“Any plan for mass charterization of public schools would be harmful to students, harmful to school employees, and harmful to communities,” said David Hecker, President of AFT [...]