AFT ENDORSES BARACK OBAMA

  This morning the AFT executive council voted to endorse the candidacy of Barack Obama for president in 2012. Watch this message from AFT President Randi Weingarten on the endorsement.   Watch why AFT endorses Obama! Education, jobs and the economy continue...

A LOT MORE WORK AND NOT SO MUCH MORE PAY

  CALVO: “Over $200 million in local funds go to DOE. There are 2,000 locally-funded teachers. If even 75 percent of that money went to pay teachers… and you do the math, that means the average teacher would be paid about $75,000 a year. But...