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"A hundred percent dedicated to the union," Carey says, "the union in St. Louis is so important because we don't have collective bargaining, so we have to do absolutely everything for our people."
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump welcomed students as they begin a new academic year and encouraged them to focus on learning, personal growth, and making a positive impact.
AFSA supports a strong, cabinet-level Secretary of Education, a fully staffed U.S. Department of Education.
One year ago at the AFSA convention, newly elected president Ernest Logan called on the delegates to push for a return to civics education.
NY educational institutions can't issue written authorization to carry a gun to any teacher or administrator.
In New Jersey, AFSA members helped push school panic buttons in the state legislature. Now the idea is moving toward federal legislation.
Maryland Principal Motley of Atholton High School and Local 36, Howard County Administrators Association, is the first union member to be elected to the position.

GOP President Donald Trump has nominated right-wing lawyer Antoninwhoops, EugeneScalia to be secretary of labor. If confirmed, he would succeed Alexander Acosta, who was forced to resign.

Eugene Scalia is best identified as a son of the late and conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. But Eugene Scalia has spent his career advocating big business causes and cases, both before and after a brief temporary stint as DOL’s solicitor, its top attorney.