Your strength is your commitment to your students. The strength of Texas AFT is the commitment of more than 62,000 educators working for schools, students and staff. Together we can be proud of our education system and improve the lives of teachers, school employees and our children. Why join Texas AFT? Below are just a few of the services and programs we offer.

In this year’s legislative session, thousands of Texas AFT members telephoned, e-mailed and visited their state legislators and won an average $1,000 pay raise statewide with an $800 minimum. Learn more on how Texas AFT helped improve our schools and to download our 2009 legislative report.

You work hard to improve the schools where you teach.  Let Texas AFT benefits work for you.  Click here to learn more about Texas AFT benefits and how to join.

$8 Million Professional Liability Insurance
Includes up to $3 million in coverage against charges of failure to educate and $2 million in civil rights cases.

$20,000 per Member Teacher Defense Fund
Access to dozens of experienced attorneys in a statewide legal network backed by labor law experts in Austin and Washington, D.C.

34 Local and Regional Offices
More than 110 Texas AFT staff from Amarillo to McAllen, Houston to El Paso, serve and represent you.

No Conflict of Interest
Texas AFT does not accept administrators as members.

Plus these other great benefits:
Supplemental medical, dental, vision and prescription drug plans; $12,000 free term life insurance (new members) and discounts on auto and home insurance, health clubs, movie tickets and theme parks.

If you're a first-year member, you can join the Texas AFT Professional Eduators Group for just $80.  Dues for renewing members are just $110.  We invite you to join the most dynamic teacher-led movement in Texas.

Based on an initial review of the U.S. Department of Education's plan for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it appears that despite some promising rhetoric, this blueprint places 100 percent of the responsibility on teachers and gives them zero percent authority, AFT president Randi Weingarten says.

The new standards released on March 10 by the Common Core State Standards Initiative represent the best effort so far to transform today's patchwork quilt of 50 sets of state standards into one set of strong, consistent expectations for what all students should know and learn, AFT president Randi Weingarten says.