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AFSA views the repeal of the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset as an important goal for educators and other public employees who have been unfairly penalized.
The proposed legislation, which is intended to prevent foreign influence in U.S. elections, has raised concerns within the labor movement.
Our ability to mobilize and demand change through unions is essential to securing a fairer, more equitable future for Black workers.

When Zulema Naegele thinks of her childhood, she says being an educator was far from her mind. The eldest of five children raised in Mesa, Arizona, she never dreamed that one day she would teach and then become a high school principal.

“I’m the oldest of 30+ cousins and was always the one to line them up and help them all hit the piñata,” she says. “But I didn’t want to be their teacher!”

The Education Department releases state fact sheets detailing Biden-Harris administration investments in public education.