SCRANTON – (June 30, 2013) – AFT Pennsylvania convention delegates voted to expand its campaign to save Pennsylvania’s public schools, colleges and universities and engage and mobilize not only its members, but parents, students, community leaders and lawmakers to stop the “excessive and unnecessary state takeovers of school districts, and for the return of local control of our schools to democratically elected school boards.”
In a dramatic conclusion to the union’s Biennial Convention, delegates from across the state
condemned “the reckless policy of mass closings, mass firings, mass