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2012 Resolutions

Resolutions are listed in alphabetical order.

• Address the Increasing Burden of Student Debt
• Adopt Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education in Districts with Dual Immersion and Biliteracy Programs
• Against Austerity Education
• AFT's Mission Statement
• Against "Zero-Dollar Paychecks" and Taxed Tuition and Fee Waivers for Graduate Student Workers
• Anti-Bullying
• Arab Spring
• Arizona Cultural Resolution
• Ask AFT for More Accountability Regarding Resolutions Passed at AFT Conventions
• Barack Obama for President-Endorsement Resolution
• Basic Preventive Care Must Include Contraception
• Building a 21st-Century Economy for All
• Condemning Attempts to Constrain Free Expression at Colleges
• Digital Learning in PreK-12 Instruction
• E-Records (Electronic Technology) Effect on Patient Care
• Education and Action in Support of the AFT's Position on Withdrawal From Afghanistan
• End Racial Profiling Through Education, Legislation and Mobilization
• Establishing a High-Quality Comprehensive Early Childhood Education and Care System Linked to the Public Schools
• Fostering Young Labor Leaders Within the American Federation of Teachers
• Health Literacy Gap
• In Solidarity With AFT Educators in Hostile Bargaining Environments who are Fighting to Defend Fair Contracts and the Right to Bargain Collectively
• In Support of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Social Security
• Keep SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital Open
• Managing Sleep Deprivation for Healthcare Professionals
• Mentoring Programs for Registered Nurses
• New Priorities to Meet U.S. Domestic Needs and Reduce Military Spending
• Oppose any Attempts to Diminish the Health Reform Act
• Opposing Voter Suppression Laws
• Opposition to Growing Mass Incarceration and Political Disenfranchisement
• Overdose Prevention Interventions
• Palliative Care
• Parent/Teacher Home Visit Project
• Patient Rights: When You're in the Hospital, ask if You've Been Admitted (Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2011)
• Preventing Workplace Violence in all Healthcare Settings
• Promote Early Literacy Curriculum
• Promote the AFT's Report on Gender Diversity in Higher Education
• Protecting Overtime Rights for All Workers
• Pushback: Fighting for Economic Justice
• Requesting a Cost Analysis of Testing and Test Prep
• Require Disclosure of Political Donors' Names
• Restoring our Democracy
• Safe Patient Handling
• Social Security and the Cost of Living
• Social Security and the Federal Budget
• Support for a P-20 Data System
• Support for Early Childhood Educational Equity Measures
• Support Legislation to Remove Restrictions on the Practice of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
• Support Meaningful Assessments of Schools of Education
• Support of the 2011 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act
• Support Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act
• Support "Save the Garment Center" and Urge Members to Buy American-Made Clothes
• Support the Special and Unique Mission of U.S. Public Community Colleges
• Supporting Legislation to Reverse the Defense of Marriage Act
• Supporting Private Student Loan Reform
• Supporting, Empowering and Protecting our Veterans
• Teacher Education Reform
• Teaching Labor History
• Testing Should Inform, Not Impede, Teaching and Learning
• The Role of PSRPs in the Common Core State Standards Process
• The Care of Children With Seizure Disorders
• The Right Way to put Patients First in our Healthcare System
• The Role of Volunteers in our Public Schools to Support and Supplement the Work of Paraprofessionals and School Support Staff
• U.S. Support for the Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Uniting With Students for Educational and Economic Justice
• Working Together to Highlight the Labor Movement's Positive Contributions to Society