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The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) threatens a secure retirement for millions of public service workers. Tell your senators to stop penalizing our teachers and public employees!
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Paraprofessionals and School-Related Personnel (PSRPs) are essential to Head Start, our preK-12 public schools and our colleges. If passed, the Paraprofessionals and Education Support Staff Bill of Rights (H. Res. 990 and S. Res. 450) would lift up the need for living wages, safe working conditions, respect and dignity. Click "start writing" and tell your lawmakers to pass it now.
The Equality Act would ensure that LGBTQI+ people can work and live without fear or threat of discrimination. Click "start writing" and tell your elected officials to support the Equality Act.
Extremists across the country have been working to ban books and rewrite history. It is vital to our future that we understand our past. and invest in the educational resources to teach honest history in our schools.