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Good morning, I don’t have to tell you school leaders in Chicago Public Schools are busy people.

The Chicago Principals and Administrators Association (CPAA), the union representing Chicago’s principals and assistant principals, extend

Take time and review the agenda for the upcoming AFSA Convention.
One year ago at the AFSA convention, newly elected president Ernest Logan called on the delegates to push for a return to civics education.
NY educational institutions can't issue written authorization to carry a gun to any teacher or administrator.
In New Jersey, AFSA members helped push school panic buttons in the state legislature. Now the idea is moving toward federal legislation.
Maryland Principal Motley of Atholton High School and Local 36, Howard County Administrators Association, is the first union member to be elected to the position.

Workers across the nation cheered as the Democratic-run U.S. House voted to raise the U.S. minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025.

The 231199 vote, virtually along party lines, presages a tougher struggle in the GOP-run Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is completely hostile to raising the wageor supporting any other progressive legislation the House sends him.

GOP President Donald Trump has nominated right-wing lawyer Antoninwhoops, EugeneScalia to be secretary of labor. If confirmed, he would succeed Alexander Acosta, who was forced to resign.

Eugene Scalia is best identified as a son of the late and conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. But Eugene Scalia has spent his career advocating big business causes and cases, both before and after a brief temporary stint as DOL’s solicitor, its top attorney.