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DOE’s Withholding of $6.9 Billion in FY2025 K-12 Funding Threatens Student Success and Paralyzes School Systems Nationwide

School leaders now face the impossible task of opening schools without knowing whether the federal funds they relied on will arrive—or when.

2025 Convention Tentative Agenda

Take time and review the agenda for the upcoming AFSA Convention.

AFSA Releases Constitutional Amendments and Resolutions Ahead of National Convention

AFSA has officially released its proposed constitutional amendments and resolutions in preparation for its upcoming national convention.

Court Panel Upholds Trump's Anti-Worker Order for Federal Employees

Trump’s executive orders are part of his, and the GOP’s, constant war on workers.

House Approves Minimum Wage Hike

Workers across the nation cheered as the Democratic-run U.S. House voted to raise the U.S. minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025.

The 231–199 vote, virtually along party lines, presages a tougher struggle in the GOP-run Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is completely hostile to raising the wage—or supporting any other progressive legislation the House sends him.

Teachers Stand Up Against Trump's Migrant Camps

Teachers have frightened migrant kids in their classes, and several reported ICE already had picked up and deported either students, parents or both.

Buffalo Council of Supervisors & Administrators President Crystal Barton, Making a Difference

AFSA Local 10 president profiled in local Buffalo magazine.

Lawsuit Launched Against Betsy DeVos Over National Student Debt

Education Department Deliberately Blocked Access to Public Service Loan Forgiveness, Stiffing Student Borrowers

NEA President: Trump is a Danger to Democracy

Republican President Trump is a danger to democracy and that automatically disqualified him from even being considered for an endorsement from the nation’s largest union.

That explanation came from Lily Eskelsen-Garcia, president of the 3.2-million-member National Education Association (NEA), in her keynote address to the union’s recent convention in Houston, held over the Independence Day weekend.