Legislation

Talking Points: Protect Retirement Security

Know the facts about school and state employee pensions. Click MORE to read and download AFTPA Pension Talking Points. Then contact your state legislators and write letters to the editors of local newspapers to protect our pensions.

In 2012, Gov. Corbett signed Act 82, requiring the Secretary of Education to establish a new, statewide rating system for evaluating teachers and principals. The teacher rating system goes into effect in September 2013, and we are waiting for PDE to release details of how the new system will work. Click below to learn what Act 82 says.

What You Can Do To Protect Your Pension

Click here to find out 5 things you can do to protect public employee pensions.

In a flurry of legislative activity, legislators in both the House and Senate have introduced a number of bills that would greatly harm public education.

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The language for SB1, which would expand charters AND vouchers (EITC) exponentially, was only released on Friday 6/4--but it's scheduled for a committee vote on Monday 6/7. The same goes for SB733, which would expand another form of vouchers (ESAs/EOAs) exponentially. In the House, HB1541 (EITC expansion) has been introduced. All of these bills would be devastating to public education.

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URGENT PFT Legislative Memo: Voucher & Charter Expansion

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June 4, 2021

To: Members of the General Assembly

From: Jerry Jordan

Re: Updated Legislative Positions

PFT 2021 Legislative Platform

The PFT has released our 2021 legislative platform.

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2021 LEGISLATIVE PLATFORM

The PFT calls on legislators at all levels of government to commit to and prioritize an investment agenda that addresses the deep seated racial and socioeconomic inequity that has disproportionately affected Philadelphia’s schoolchildren.

For decades, our students have been robbed of their constitutional right to a thorough and efficient public education system. We have taken our fight to the ballot box, to the streets, and to the courts. But still, for far too many across the country, the