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Patricia Gil, Lessons in Leadership from a Soldier, Teacher, and Lifelong Learner

Former Assistant Principal Patricia Gil has been inspired all her life by Mark Twain’s saying, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.” She has lived by those words from the moment she joined the U.S. Army Reserve as a college freshman to her current role as an assistant field director and member of the Veterans Council at the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators (CSA), AFSA Local 1, New York City.

Cannizzaro Calls on School Leaders to ‘Bring the Movement National’ at CSA Leadership Conference

“If it’s just New York City, they can pick you off pretty easily, but when we stand together, when we support unions across the country, we’re unstoppable.”

Hungry Students Can't Learn: Fund SNAP

Major Education organizations have urged federal leaders to immediately release reserve funds and use any other available flexibilities without reducing support for other nutrition programs.

Up to $4,500 for Children of AFSA Members Attending College for the First Time in 2026

The 2026 Diann Woodard Scholarship online application and guidelines are now open. If you have a graduating high school senior planning to attend college in 2026, now is the time to encourage them to apply!

Five Outstanding Students Earn AFSA’s 2025 Diann Woodard Scholarship

AFSA honored five exceptional high school seniors with the prestigious Diann Woodard Scholarship in 2025, recognizing their academic achievements, unwavering dedication to community service, and exemplary work ethic.

Tom Carty, From the Old Guard to the Schoolyard

Straight out of high school, Tom Carty enlisted in the U.S. Army. Today, he is the long-time principal of P.S/I.S. 49, a highly successful school in Middle Village, Queens.

California Urban School Leaders Meet

This year’s day-and-a-half meeting, hosted by the Oakland Unified administrators’ union, focused on the role of organized labor in defending equity, fairness, and respect for education’s front-line leaders.

Oklahoma Schools Chief Ryan Walters Steps Down to Lead Anti-Union Group

We will build an army of teachers to defeat the teachers unions once and for all. This fight is going national and we will get our schools back.

Study Finds Most School Board Meetings Are Calm and Cooperative, Not Partisan

Despite frequent headlines highlighting political clashes at school board meetings, new research shows that such confrontations are the exception—not the rule.