Topic: Alief AFT

Your Weekly Briefing

Publish Date: June 24, 2019

SBOE Uses Veto to Stop Controversial Royal “Public” Schools Charter Applicant The founder of controversial Harmony Public Schools, which is one of the largest charter school chains in Texas, recently applied to open several new charter schools in Austin and the Alief area of Houston by August 2020 under the name of Royal Public Schools. The Commissioner of Education approved...

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Another 40,000 free books given to students and classrooms!

Publish Date: May 3, 2018

  Alief AFT on Saturday distributed 40,000 free books to students and teachers for their classrooms as part of Texas AFT’s ongoing partnership with First Book, which helps supply and coordinate free book distributions nationwide. Texas AFT local unions alone have given away more than 500,000 books in the past six years.

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