AFT President Randi Weingarten gathered AFT leaders and national organizers in a virtual town hall Feb.19 to deliver an urgent call to action: On March 4, stand up for our schools. Fight for our communities. Protect our kids.
The call to action is part of the AFT’s newly launched nationwide campaign, “Protect Our Kids,” mounted in response to the Trump administration’s threat to cut the Department of Education and the funds that go with it—a move that ultimately amounts to a large-scale attack on the nearly 50 million American children who attend public schools. Speakers shared their plans for the day, in addition to resources to help the nearly 1,000 attendees plan their own community-level actions.