K-12 Education
 We are more than 150,000 school employees including food service workers, bus drivers, custodial and maintenance workers, paraprofessionals, health care workers, clerical employees, and librarians. AFSCME members provide the services critical to an effective and healthy learning environment. Together, AFSCME school employees have won important victories concerning health and safety, privatization, and other workplace issues through negotiations, and political and legislative action.
Join your brothers and sisters in the AFSCME School Employees Network to discuss the issues you care about, learn about what’s going on around the country, and exchange information and ideas.
Who calls a special-needs kid "Little Monster"? What happens when they're caught? A parent’s audio recording revealed that a First Student bus driver and bus aide at an Illinois school had verbally abused their 17-year-old special-needs son, calling him a "F---ing little monster," and joking about putting other students at risk of physical harm. First Student suspended the pair from working in the Morton School District, but kept them on to work elsewhere. The school district is looking into removing the contractor at the end of the school year. New Haven AFSCME school employees win! Aramark is out AFSCME Council 4 members score a big victory in turning back school cafeteria privatization as New Haven Schools plans to return to in-house food service. School chief operating officer Will Clark said officials found all three contractor bids lacking. “We may be buying more of the same” no matter which outside company runs the kitchen, said Clark. Conservatives are abandoning the failed school voucher experiment The school voucher movement has abruptly stalled. Some stalwart advocates of vouchers have either repudiated the idea entirely or considerably tempered their enthusiasm for it. Former voucher proponent Sol Stern admitted a lack of progress, and observed that reformers need to stop championing "elegant-sounding theories" that "don't produce verifiable results in the classroom."
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