AFT Votes

The AFT congratulates Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on historic win

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement in response to a projected 2020 presidential election victory for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris:

“On behalf of the 1.7 million members of the AFT, our officers and our staff, we congratulate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on securing enough electoral votes to win the presidency and vice presidency. Joe and Kamala have vowed to repair our country’s deep pain and division and will govern tirelessly for all of us.

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Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris has a long history of supporting public education. She’s been committed to fully funding public education; she supports the right to organize; and she has a history of fighting for voting rights, LGBTQ equality and women’s rights. When our members went on strike in Los Angeles in 2019, she was one of the first national figures to publicly support our members. And in this long-overdue moment of racial reckoning, her leadership on the Justice in Policing Act of 2020 is what we need.

Dr. Jill Biden

Jill Biden is an accomplished public school teacher, professor and author and is the founder of a number of organizations and initiatives that serve communities such as military families and people with cancer. She earned her doctorate in education from the University of Delaware, where her studies focused on maximizing student retention in community college. She has been married to former Vice President Joe Biden since 1977. Biden has been an educator for nearly 40 years. She taught English and reading for 13 years in public schools and taught at a psychiatric hospital for children with emotional disabilities. She has been a professor at community colleges since 1993. Biden continued to teach as a full-time professor at Northern Virginia Community College while serving as second lady.

Kamala Harris

AFT Votes Town Hall with Sen. Harris, Detroit 5/6/19

Dr. Jill Biden