Donna M. Chiera on State Legislature Passing Quarterly Pension Payments Bill
Guaranteed quarterly payments save money on interest and make sense for the state while starting to pay down the…
AFT, AFT New Jersey, Newark Teachers Union File to Intervene in Legal Challenge of State Education Statue Protecting Experienced Teachers
NEWARK, N.J.—Today, the Newark Teachers Union, AFT New Jersey and the American Federation of Teachers filed a motion seeking…
Princeton grad workers vote to join AFT
By Stephon Johnson Graduate workers at Princeton University have followed the lead of their University of Chicago and Cornell…
New York Education ‘Reform’ Group Challenges New Jersey Teacher Seniority
The head of Newark’s teachers’ union says the law is in place specifically to protect educators in politically charged…
Nick Yovnello Social Justice Scholarship Winners: Students Confront Campus Rape Culture, Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Muslim Bias
Scholarship winners Amanda Gonzalez and Maryam Sarhan tell the stories of their activism. Amanda, Maryam and Kelsea Rowan were…
EOF program sees extra million after state budget is passed
By Manuel Silva-Paulus The Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) program has reversed cuts to the program proposed by New Jersey…
Those Hidden College Fees
By Rochelle Sharpe […] So where does all this money go? At Rutgers, the local teachers union got hold…
Princeton Graduate Students Consider Unionization
By Erin Delmore, Correspondent [NOTE: The video report concludes that “to form a union 30% of graduate students need…
2016 General Election AFTNJ Endorsed Candidates
President of the United States Hillary Clinton (D) United States House of Representatives District 1 Donald Norcross (D)*+ District…
Making Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Work on the State Level
The New Jersey Department of Education has been conducting meetings with stakeholders in education to formulate the state plan…
Princeton graduate students get national support for unionization efforts
By Anna Merriman, NJ.com PRINCETON – A collection of graduate students at Princeton University made the first step in…
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