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AFT Indiana has partnered with Trine University and VESi to offer members a yearly subscription to online graduate courses for $225 per year. You can enroll in one course per term or two courses during the summer (if you skip fall or spring), for a total of 3 courses per year.

Choose from over 30 online courses for license renewal and salary advancement

Learn online at your own pace from the convenience of your home

Three graduate courses (up to nine credits) per year for $225 -- a savings of over $1,000 per year

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Capitol Insider  

February 23, 2024 

HB 1304 Makes Collective Bargaining Optional!! 

TEACHERS, IT IS TIME TO ACT. 

HB 1304  Education matters. The bill requires much of the Department of Ed.  For us, the most egregious part of this bill that we MUST address concerns a school (traditional or charter) that participates in a Mastery Based Education Program (language begins on page 8 of the bill). If a district is participating, the administration can OPT OUT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING.  The bill passed out of committee 10-2 with Senators Hunley and Qaddoura opposing. 

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Randi Weingarten at a Massachusetts high school

Summer is upon us, and parents, children and teachers are winding down from what has been an exhausting and fully operational school year—the first since the devastating pandemic. The long-lasting impact of COVID-19 has affected our students’ and families’ well-being and ignited the politics surrounding public schools. All signs point to the coming school year unfolding with the same sound and fury, and if extremist culture warriors have their way, being even more divisive and stressful.

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What unions do

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In AFT President Randi Weingarten’s latest New York Times  column, she describes what it is exactly that unions do. Though unions are the most popular they have been in decades, anti-union sentiment still thrives in red states and across the nation. “Several years ago, The Atlantic ran a story whose headline made even me, a labor leader, scratch my head: ‘Union Membership: Very Sexy,’” Weingarten writes in the column. “The gist was that higher wages, health benefits and job security—all associated with union membership—boost one’s chances of getting married. Belonging to a union doesn’t actually guarantee happily ever after, but it does help working people have a better life in the here and now.” Click through to read the full column.

Randi Weingarten and NYC teacher Tamara Simpson

Attacks on public education in America by extremists and culture-war peddling politicians have reached new heights (“lows” may be more apt), but they are not new. The difference today is that the attacks are intended not just to undermine public education but to destroy it.

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