According to a new book-length study by the Economic Policy Institute, students in charter schools, on average, fare no better, and often do worse, on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) than do students in traditional public schools. Researchers also found charter schools enroll proportionally fewer low-income students.

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Membership in the Escambia Education Association should be important to you but more importantly, your being a part of our organization is very important to us.  So we are asking for you to help by asking a non-member to join our association....(Click the title to read more) 

The Illinois Federation of Public Employees, Local 4408, represents approximately 1,500 working men and women employed in the public sector in the State of Illinois.  Together, our members are employed in over sixty professional titles in twenty separate State agencies, as well as a number of educational facilities and the offices of Sangamon County Government.

IFPE Membership allows you to speak to your Employer confidently with a voice of over one million members.....

Several concerned ACC employees met one afternoon in September, 1998, to organize a local chapter of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL/CIO. Representatives of the Texas Federation of Teachers and the Austin Federation of Teachers explained the purpose, structure, and strategy of a union of employees in higher education.

Contract unanimously approved on September 1, 2006 by striking teachers.

As we end this school year and begin to plan for the 2007-2008 year, I believe it is important for teachers to realize that they can choose to be members of  DFT.   DFT has a long history of providing leadership and service to Denver teachers and we look forward to being a part of the redesign of DPS.