Join us for a 5-day professional learning experience designed to help educators start the school year strong! Sessions will focus on Beginning of the Year Classroom Management, Instructional Strategies, and Positive Behavior Support/SEL.

July 28 – August 1, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. each day

Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/4edn7zjv

Join us for an intensive Praxis Prep Week designed just for School District of Philadelphia employees in emergency certification status or a Para Pathways program. 

📅 Dates: July 21–25
🕣 Time: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM daily
📍 Location: 1816 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Deadline to register is Friday, July 11th: https://tinyurl.com/2f2yvr6v

PHILADELPHIA (June 25, 2025) – Leaders of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT), School District of Philadelphia, and Philadelphia Board of Education visited the state Capitol on Wednesday to fight for a strong budget package to address decades of systemic underfunding and to provide oversight and accountability of skyrocketing spending obligations on cyber charter schools.

PFT President Arthur G. Steinberg, Superintendent Dr. Tony B. Watlington, Sr., and Board of Education President Reginald L. Streater, Esq., met with Governor Josh Shapiro's administration and key lawmakers to press

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With a one-year extension of the current collective bargaining agreement set to expire on the last day of August, PFT President Arthur Steinberg called a special membership meeting on Tuesday to provide an overview of the status of contract negotiations with the District. Following

PHILADELPHIA (June 12, 2025) – Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) President Arthur G. Steinberg on Thursday urged the Board of Education to exercise its authority to support the School District of Philadelphia's efforts to control costs and win increases in state funding necessary to avoid a projected structural deficit in 2027. Following are President Steinberg's remarks as prepared for delivery at Thursday's Board meeting:

"My name is Arthur Steinberg, president of the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, which represents 14,000 unionized educators who work in the School District of

PHILADELPHIA (May 29, 2025) – Philadelphia Federation of Teachers (PFT) President Arthur G. Steinberg on Thursday issued the following statement on the Philadelphia Board of Education’s vote to approve a new charter school, following a 7-year unofficial moratorium on charter expansion in Philly:

“I am outraged by the Board of Education’s irresponsible decision today to approve a new charter school. At a time when the School District of Philadelphia continues to beg for adequate funding, as well as badly overdue state legislative reforms for cyber and charter schools, today’s vote was a betrayal