The American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA) believes that it is the responsibility of the entire school community to create and maintain a safe and orderly environment.

The American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA) believes that every child at age 3 and above should have access to quality public education.  Kindergarten should be a full day program.  AFSA supports a class size no larger than 18 pupils in each pre-school classroom.

The American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA) believes that all students must have an environment that is conducive to learning.  The physical infrastructure of our nation’s schools must meet a variety of needs including the ability to accommodate the number of students, accessibility for persons with disabilities, conducive to changing teaching methods and instruction, technology implementation, and meet all health and safety requirements.  School facilities must also be well constructed, energy efficient, and aesthetically pleasing.  AFSA feels that stable and sufficient funding

The American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA) believes that public schools must be used as resources for the local community.  Such programs should be directed by appropriate qualified professionals.  The integrity of the day school program should not be negatively impacted by public use.

The American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA) supports innovation in the public school sector.  Charter schools and other nontraditional school options may not provide the sustained reform that our nation’s public schools require and deplete essential resources from the public school sector.

The American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA) believes that vouchers, tuition tax credits, scholarships and other funding schemes designed to subsidize nonpublic pre-K through grade 12 school education with taxpayer monies undermine our nation’s commitment to a free equitable public education for all children.

The American Federation of School Administrators is concerned about the quality of life in our cities. The Federation believes that policies and programs must be designed to promote and improve urban development, economic growth, zoning, land use, mass transit, rent subsidy and other issues vitally affecting urban community development. The Federation also feels that professional organizations, business, and the government should form partnerships to help improve our urban areas.

The American Federation of School Administrators believes that it is the job of staff, faculty, students and the community to create and maintain a safe and orderly school environment. Students and faculty should be safe from physical, verbal, and psychological violence or the threat thereof. The Federation feels that each school district should have a written discipline policy that has a fair and equitable enforcement procedure that is consistently enforced.

The American Federation of School Administrators believes that public schools should be used as resources for the local community. Programs that offer adult education, parenting, family counseling, and other extracurricular activities are appropriate activities for before and after school programs offered at public school buildings. The Federation strongly believes that closed public school facilities that have been deemed safe can also be used effectively for public preschool, day care, job training centers and adult education centers.

The American Federation of School Administrators is committed to protect and to fight for the human and civil rights of children, youth, and adults. The Federation calls upon all Americans to eliminate by statute and practice barriers to race, color, national origin, religion, philosophical beliefs, political beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, size, marital status, and economic status that prevent some individuals, adult or juvenile, from exercising rights enjoyed by others, including liberties decreed in common law, the constitution, and statutes of the United States.