Thanks to all who attended our productive meeting. The following schools were represented: 

• Academy of Americas Elementary
• Adult Education West
• Bagley Elementary
• Bennett Academy
• Brewer Academy
• Cass Technical
• Clark Preparatory Academy
• Clippert Academy
• Cody Academy of Public Leadership
• Cody Medicine and County Health Academy
• Detroit Collegiate Prep at Northwestern
• Detroit International Academy for Young Women
• Drew Transitional Center
• Durfee
• East English Village Preparatory Academy
• Edison
• Emerson
• Foreign Language Immersion Cultural Studies
• Frederick Douglass Academy
• Gompers
• Greenfield Union
• Jerry L. White Center
• John R

You’ll find information on a number of high priority bills under consideration.

Knezek Offers Resolution Demanding Snyder Drop the Appeal and Return our 3 Percent

Sen. David Knezek (D-Dearborn Heights) introduced on March 29 SR 37, a resolution demanding Gov. Rick Snyder return the money taken illegally from school employees’ paychecks from 2010-12, the subject of a seven-year court battle led by AFT Michigan and the Michigan Education Association.

Three separate courts have found the law in violation of the state constitution, as it forced the deduction of 3 percent of school employees’ wages

"I know some of the teachers are going to ask, why did he leave Detroit?” said Ivy Bailey, Detroit Federation of Teachers - DFT Local 231, president.

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MARCH 22--The American Federation of Teachers Detroit, at the request of its members, called on the Detroit Board of Education to extend Interim Superintendent Alycia Meriweather an opportunity to interview as a finalist for the Detroit Public Schools Community District superintenden position.

During her tenure, Interim Superintendent Meriweather has led the way in restoring trust, confidence and hope in our school district. She has earned an opportunity for further consideration. While we respect the Board's process, we hope that it will give our request ample consideration.

Superintendent

The dues deduction for 2016 was: $897.16

Deductions from January thru July 2017: $570.92

Read the resolution passed by the DFT on pardoning DACA immigrant youth and supporting the National Days of Action.

• Resolution to Build the Movement Demand President Obama Take Action to Pardon DACA Immigrant Youth

Ballots were counted on Sunday, Dec. 3 and the results are in. Click here to see full list and the calendar for run-off election.

LANSING — The selection of Betsy DeVos to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education is an affront to students and education professionals in Michigan, according to the leaders of Michigan’s school employee unions, the American Federation of Teachers Michigan and the Michigan Education Association. 

DeVos brings no credible experience or expertise in education, but rather has pushed for the privatization and dismantling of public education at every turn. She rejects evidence, research and the experiences of front-line educators in pursuit of policy changes that only serve to profit billionaires.

“In