LFT President Steve Monagahan presented retired Jefferson Federation of Teachers President Joe Potts with an award at the LFT's Union Leadership Institute.

The Federation's weekly report on legislative issues important to teachers, school employees and college faculty.

Now posted on the Web! Follow all the legislation that LFT is monitoring in the 2009 regular legislative session. The chart includes links to the bills under consideration, and to the legislators who authored them.

Obama: I support repealing the GPO/WEP and will work to do so as president.”

For the past three years, LFT and our members have joined forces with union members from other states to pass the national Social Security Fairness Act. That’s the law that would repeal two unfair pension offsets that cut duly earned benefits of Louisiana school employees and other public servants in more than a dozen states.

Follow the latest issues in public education, learn what the decision-makers are talking about, and see what education reporters are covering. Add your own thoughts and help create an online community of informed educators. Click this link to visit EdLog.

Members of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers explain what it means to be the largest, most effective education organization in the state! Please click here.

Widely recognized as the most effective and influential education organization in the state, The Louisiana Federation of Teachers represents more than 17,000 teachers and school employees.

Join the LFT Action Center and add our voice to the thousands already influencing education policy in the capitol!