AFT-WV receives constant questions about the law and educators' rights regarding planning periods. We've compiled a list and created a flyer featuring our members' most frequently asked questions.
Click here to view the Planning Period FAQs. Feel free to print and share!
Congratulations to the following AFT locals and members who were presented with awards during the 2022 AFT-WV Convention:
Membership Growth Awards
Net Re Growth Awards:
2nd place-- Nicholas County Federation of Teachers
1st Place Net Re-Growth-- AFT-Monongalia Co.
Percentage Re Growth Awards:
2nd place-- AFT- McDowell
Delegates at the 2022 AFT-WV Convention approved three resolutions put before the voting body.
Click on the titles below to read the resolutions:
Leaders of the state’s two education employee organizations, AFT-West Virginia and WVEA, will hold focus groups to generate solutions to improve our public schools in ways that best support student success.
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In the leadup to the midterm elections, pundits predicted a red wave, even a tsunami, based on polls, historical precedent, and steep gas and grocery prices. But I had my doubts. I spent the weeks before the elections talking to voters and traveling on the AFT Votes bus, rolling through a dozen states with more than 50 stops. In a year when kitchen table issues, democracy and our freedoms were on the ballot, many people told me that the elections came down to a choice between, on the one side, election deniers and extremists stoking fear, and on the other, problem-solvers working to help the country move forward. Many races were close, but Americans turned the tide from a red wave to a swell of support for progress and problem-solvers. Read the full column here.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 AFT-WV Student Artist Contest!
High School:
1st- Jamie Wilcoxen, Parkersburg South High School/ Wood County (Teacher: Abbie Burge)
Honorable Mention- Michael Murphy, Morgantown High School/ Monongalia County (Teacher: Sam Brunett)
Middle School:
1st- Lucille Dahle, Suncrest Middle/Monongalia County (Teacher: Larry Bright)
Honorable Mention: Athena Cheng, Suncrest Middle/Monongalia County (Teacher: Larry Bright)
Elementary School:
2022 General Election- Proposed Constitutional Amendments on the Ballot Affecting Education
The WV Association of School Administrators has passed a resolution against the passage of proposed constitutional amendments 2 and 4, both of which are on the ballot in November. AFT-WV also opposes both proposed amendments.
Click here to read the WVASA resolution.
