Bucks County CC Federation of Teachers

Scholarships for AFTPA Families

Links to Three Scholarship Applications for AFTPA Families

To Register for This Site

To Register For This Website . . .

click on the REGISTER HERE link in the left frame. You need your AFT member # on the AFT member card, NOT your BCCC employee #.

For membership # help, see https://www.aft.org/members/help.cfm or E-Mail: Membership Department or Phone: 888/238-5646.

How Wall Street steals from Higher Education

How Wall Street steals from Higher Education:
Student loan payments, risky interest rates to pay for college investments and for-profit skim are costing students, families and taxpayers $44 billion a year. Watch the video to learn more and take action!

Our Group at the 50th Anniversary March on Washington for Jobs and Justice

12 people from the BCCC community attended the 50th Anniversary March on Washington for Jobs and Justice.

Vouchers, EITC, ESAs don't help students

AFT Pennsylvania opposes taxpayer-funded school vouchers, education scholarship tax credits (Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) programs), which are back-door vouchers that use tax breaks to subsidize private and parochial schools. Vouchers represent a false hope for a few children, while most vouchers/scholarships are used by students already attending private schools. Vouchers do not deliver better outcomes for students and leave fewer resources for public school programs that are proven to work.

The 2018 budget proposal released by the White House on March 16 "takes a meat cleaver to public education" and ignores promised investments in the types of skills, training and other vital family supports that Trump rode to the White House in 2016, AFT President Randi Weingarten says.

AFTPA opposes eliminating school property taxes

AFT Pennsylvania's Executive Council has approved a resolution opposing legislative efforts to eliminate school property taxes across the commonwealth. The resolution was approved unanimously by the Executive Council March 10. The property tax elimination bill has not been introduced yet.

AFT guides faculty through threats to academic freedom

To help faculty understand their rights and guide them with practical advice about how to continue to exercise their academic freedom, the AFT has joined with the American Association of University Professors to create a guide (link is external) for locals to use to educate their members. Informed by faculty experience, it is designed to prepare academics for the possibility of increased attacks on campus.

PFT, PCAPS Release Results of Survey on Local Control of Public Schools

The PFT and PCAPS are calling for dissolving the School Reform Commission in favor of a locally accountable school board

PA Residents Agree: Invest in Public Education

A survey of Pennsylvanians by Terry Madonna's Opinion Research group found that 71 percent of Pennsylvanians believe the state needs to make a bigger investment in public education.