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Five Outstanding Students Earn AFSA’s 2025 Diann Woodard Scholarship

AFSA honored five exceptional high school seniors with the prestigious Diann Woodard Scholarship in 2025, recognizing their academic achievements, unwavering dedication to community service, and exemplary work ethic.

Tom Carty, From the Old Guard to the Schoolyard

Straight out of high school, Tom Carty enlisted in the U.S. Army. Today, he is the long-time principal of P.S/I.S. 49, a highly successful school in Middle Village, Queens.

California Urban School Leaders Meet

This year’s day-and-a-half meeting, hosted by the Oakland Unified administrators’ union, focused on the role of organized labor in defending equity, fairness, and respect for education’s front-line leaders.

Oklahoma Schools Chief Ryan Walters Steps Down to Lead Anti-Union Group

We will build an army of teachers to defeat the teachers unions once and for all. This fight is going national and we will get our schools back.

Study Finds Most School Board Meetings Are Calm and Cooperative, Not Partisan

Despite frequent headlines highlighting political clashes at school board meetings, new research shows that such confrontations are the exception—not the rule.
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Maximize Your AFSA Benefits for 2025

Your monthly investment in AFSA provides a number of benefits including a host of insurance policies. However, AFSA must have your most current information on file, or you will not qualify for these benefits or you may be denied coverage.

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Long Term Care, Dental, Accidental Death and Dismemberment

AFSA Members are automatically eligible to participate in optional Long Term Care, Dental, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance Benefits. 

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Patricia Donner, AFSA Local 146, Montgomery County, MD

In August, when so many Marylanders were swimming and boating, hiking, and camping, Patricia Donner could be found practically 24/7 at Gaithersburg High School, Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland, where she is the school business administrator.

Liana Szeto, AFSA Local 3, San Francisco, CA

The opening of San Francisco’s Alice Fong Yu Alternative School (AFY) in 1995 “was a victory for the whole community,” according to its firebrand founding principal, Liana Szeto—even when the hate calls and letters started coming and eggs were thrown at the door of the dilapidated old brick build

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