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Call it "Arne Duncan Unplugged," an unscripted Monday afternoon exchange at QuEST between the U.S. education secretary and AFT members on the issues that matter most to education's frontline. The July 13 session began with a drum roll: AFT members' handwritten questions for the education secretary were collected in advance and placed inside an onstage sweepstakes drum. After a few turns, AFT president Randi Weingarten reached in and selected a handful at random, and Duncan took the stage to provide some answers.
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QuEST 2009 Highlights
Highlights from the recently concluded 2009 AFT QuEST conference in Washington, D.C., included AFT president Randi Weingarten's keynote address, a town hall meeting with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, a panel on community schools and remarks from U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. Daily updates from the conference, as well as video highlights, can be found on the AFT's QuEST 2009 Web site.
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(May 2009) KAPE leaders convene in Salina for a two-day intensive training in organizing skills. |
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An analysis of the most recent 10 years of national data presents a troubling picture of disinvestment in the higher education teaching profession-notably, a reduction in the proportion of full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty, and an increased reliance on employing "contingent" faculty and instructors such as part-time faculty, full-time nontenure track faculty and graduate employees.
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Over one hundred city workers and labor allies picketed Topeka City Council as union files legal complaint on Tusday, Sept. 9. Read more here. |
KAPE members take to the street to protest a City Council budget vote...drawing TV cameras and surprising council members. |
KAPE president Lisa Ochs and KAPE 1st vice president Paul Babich, at the Pride of the Union reception to honor growing AFT unions, held at the AFT’s 2008 convention in Chicago in mid-July. |
