Remarks at No Vouchers Press Conference as prepared—April 26, 2024
As the President of AFT Pennsylvania, a state federation representing 36,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, school staff, higher education faculty and staff, and state workers in 64 local unions, I have the pleasure of counting among our membership the hardworking educators from Pennsylvania’s two largest school districts, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
The COVID-19 pandemic shone a light into the inequities in our public education, inequities that, as has been stated, we know to be in violation of Pennsylvania’s