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.

Adjuncts Are Better Teachers Than Tenured Professors, Study Finds

Students learned more when their first instructor in a discipline was not on the tenure track, as compared with those whose introductory professor was tenured, according to a new paper from Northwestern University. Read The Chronicle of Higher Education article.

Prof Michael Hennessey Argues for Restored College Funding in Op-Ed

In a guest op-ed published in the Intelligencer and the Courier Times August 18, Michael Hennessey asks county residents to contact state legislators and county commissioners urging them to restore community college funding to the original intended shared levels. Read it here: http://bit.ly/180ZUsX

BCCC Prof Bill Pezza pushing political reforms for 'meaningful change'

The Bucks County Courier Times recently featured adjunct instructor William Pezza, Dept. of Social & Behavioral Science. Read it here: http://www.phillyburbs.com/blogs/local-politics/pezza-pushing-political-reforms-for-meaningful-change/article_38e5d549-a545-5553-937f-b9873fd034f6.html

AFTPA Calls for a Moratorium on Common Core, High-Stakes Testing and Teacher Evaluation

AFT Pennsylvania joined with state Senate Democrats in calling for a moratorium on the requirements for students, teachers and schools associated with the new Common Core State Standards on Monday.

AFTPA Applauds Cyber-Charter Funding Bill

AFTPA supports a proposal by PA Rep. James Roebuck that would change the way the state funds cyber-charter schools and return nearly $400 million to public schools - without raising taxes.