Reports
This page is a list of AFT reports.
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2025

Across the United States, educators are mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect. But reporting rarely helps protect children from harm. We need an altern...
2024

The AFT created this report at the request of trustees from AFT members’ public pension plans, who seek information that is often hidden or not shared with them...

In 1989, the AFT heard these concerns from our members and responded by creating the Ad Hoc Committeeon Healthcare Responsibilities in Special Education. This c...

As education moves into this new phase, we must use technology in service of creating classroom environments where students learn to think critically, they are ...

For decades, educators have questioned mandatory reporting. Does the requirement that we report any possible trauma in the homes of our students actually help c...

Following over a year of research, discussion and exploration into the crisis of an understaffed public sector, the AFT Public Employees Short Staffing Task For...
2023

AFT has prepared this report on the investigation conducted by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (“Select Subcommittee”). Although the S...

This report by the AFT, ParentsTogether and other organizations, draws upon the experiences of educators, parents, students and mental health professionals, as ...