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Greening Schools Initiative

America’s public schools have substantial environmental footprints. Schools use large amounts of energy, land, transportation, and food. Our public schools have an incredible opportunity to be centers of resiliency for students and families and to provide a more sustainable future.

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Pathways to Green Collar Jobs

Investments in schools can accelerate the transition to a clean economy, empower youth to access green jobs and build long-lasting change to advance a more sustainable, resilient and equitable society. Educators are unleashing the creativity of our students and giving them the skills to solve the climate crisis that provide pathways to good union jobs.

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PreK-12 Curriculum

The AFT’s Share My Lesson has compiled an amazing collection of lesson plans and resources for educators addressing climate change.

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Federal Climate Legislation

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to pass bold legislation that will create millions of good union jobs for a green economy that helps save our planet. We are amplifying our voices and taking action together.

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Greening AFT Pensions

AFT members’ pension funds have an estimated $114 billion invested in fossil fuels. Fossil fuels don’t just harm the environment—they create risk in our pension investments. We can take action to make our pensions more sustainable and ensure that our retirement savings are being invested in ways that help address climate change.

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BESE Considers Raises

Today, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) passed their proposal for the minimum foundation program (MPF) – the funding formula for Louisiana’s K-12 schools. Unsurprisingly, their proposal was exactly what the MFP Task Force recommended last week.

BESE’s proposal calls for an $80 million dollar increase in the MFP – a 1.375% increase in general classroom funding (level 1) and 1.375%, or $40 million, for raises (level 3). That comes out to $400 increase for teachers and $200 for school employees, spread out over the entire year. “Our teachers and school employees deserve better,” said LFT President Larry Carter in response to the proposal.
 
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AFT-NH Legislative Bulletin, 2021-10

March 7, 2021 ~ Bow, NH

Educator Vaccines   The most consequential news this week started in Washington DC, when President Biden ordered the prioritization of educators (teachers, staff, child care workers) for COVID vaccinations.  The goal?  Speed up the vaccinations and thereby speed up the reopening of schools and a further return to at least a semblance of normality.  Here in NH, Governor Sununu initially declared that President Biden’s pronouncement would make no difference here in the Granite State, but only a day or so later, amidst mounting public criticism, Governor Sununu reversed course.  Not that he admitted any such thing.  Instead, suddenly the pace of vaccinations here in NH permitted moving up the vaccination of educators starting around the middle of March.  Of course, this had nothing to do with President Biden’s order; Governor Sununu just had a sudden insight that this could be done.  Typical political move by the governor, but at least it was the right move this time.  After bashing AFT-NH, teachers, and their unions for over a month, the governor reversed course and announced NH would do what educators, through their unions, have sought since January—vaccinations!  We’ll take it, and even if Governor Sununu refuses to acknowledge us, we can take quiet pride in helping to move NH forward towards a restoration of some sort of normality in this COVID-pandemic world.

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