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This website provides information about upcoming legislative and political issues that affect educators. On the site you have the ability to fax your legislators about current issues.
American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)—An International Federation of Labor Unions
AFL-CIO is a federation of 55 national and international labor unions and includes more than 10 million workers. Because of our membership in AFL-CIO, we are also members of the New York State AFL-CIO and the Buffalo Central Labor Council of the AFL-CIO.
NEA represents more than 3.2 million members. NEA represents people who work at every level of education—from pre-school to university graduate programs. NEA has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities across the United States.
NEA is considered a professional organization, not a union. NYSUT became affiliated with NEA when NYSUT and NEA-NY merged in 2006.
Education Week is an independent news organization that has covered K–12 education since 1981.
Diane Silvers Ravitch is a historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Previously, she was a U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education. Ravitch writes for the New York Review of Books.