John,

We're going live in just a few minutes with AFT President Randi Weingarten's address, "In Defense of Public Education." See the graphic below for more details.

Watch the address on Facebook or on AFT's website.

This is an opportunity to shine a spotlight on how public education provides broad-based opportunity for our children to thrive—even as now, for the first time in decades, its very existence is threatened. In the speech, Randi will lay down a challenge to lawmakers to promote investment, collaboration, and family and community engagement in public schools instead of tarring them with the politics of division and hate.

In unity,
AFT