Important point from @zephcapo.bsky.social. Texas students & teachers walk into schools every day in a state with one of the highest rates of gun violence in the country. The energy spent on political investigations could have been spent making schools & communities safer. @texasaft.org

You don’t lose your right to express yourself the day you become a teacher.
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NOW: @texasaft.org & AFT announce a lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency (TEA) and commissioner, Mike Morath. The lawsuit challenges TEA’s unlawful investigations into educators’ protected First Amendment activity following Charlie Kirk's assassination.

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyyf...

📢 Free speech is free speech. Educators across Texas have been retaliated against for constitutionally protected speech that had no bearing on job performance and no impact on their classrooms.

Read more about our lawsuit against TEA in the New York Times article below 👇

Texas AFT, backed by AFT, filed a federal suit because educators constitutional right to free speech shouldn’t be weaponized against the people who educate our kids.

I want to bring focus to our members... who I could not be prouder of. — our members are taking a stand against censorship.

Heading into Labor Day Weekend, I’m thinking of the American workers who built this country & power our economy and the labor unions that have always had their backs.

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Education is our kids future. Education is our country’s future. Mr. President, we will see you in court. www.aft.org/press-releas...

I suspect no one who voted for Trump thought he would let Musk invade their privacy. Right now, inside the Dept of Ed, the world’s richest man is rifling through 45M people’s private student loan accounts and feeding the data into AI. www.aft.org/press-releas...

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