Join the PFT Health & Welfare Fund for a four-day PD session that will get you all set with managing your class for the upcoming school year. 

Join the PFT Health & Welfare Fund for an intensive Praxis Prep Week designed just for School District of Philadelphia employees in emergency certification status or a Career Pathways program! This four-day Praxis PD series is designed to support educators preparing for Praxis 5511, 5154, 5155: Fundamental Subjects exam and similar tests.

The AFT PSRP leadership conference last month came chock-full of advice from activists on how to optimize campaigns, whether they focus on organizing, politics, a living wage or community service. PSRP co-chairs Carl Williams and Sarah Wofford led the proceedings. Williams is president of the Lawndale (Calif.) Federation of Classified Employees, a former school custodian and president of California’s classified members. Wofford is an accounting specialist for Rogue Community College and president of the Oregon School Employees Association. Eighteen AFT locals sent paraprofessionals and school-related personnel to Chicago April 10-12 for the conference.

PHILADELPHIA (April 30, 2026) – Following is a statement from Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT Local 3) President Arthur G. Steinberg on the Board of Education vote – over fierce community opposition – to close 17 schools as part of the School District of Philadelphia's Facilities Master Plan:

"The Board of Education's decision to rubber-stamp with a 6-3 vote the District's underbaked and unpopular Facilities Master Plan is arrogant, anti-democratic, and reckless. No one knows what our school buildings need to become safe, healthy spaces for learning better than our members. Elected officials whose communities became education deserts after the last mass school closures – giving rise to blight, dumping, and crime – know the lasting, often tragic, consequences to be paid when the city fails to invest in young people.