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Hold Colorado's Corporate Criminals Accountable

The heads of big corporations should have to abide by the same laws as the rest of us do.  But too many times, CEOs break the rules and leave the rest of us to pick up the tab.

In Colorado, we’ve paid the price for greedy CEOs and companies that break the rules to get ahead.  According to the Denver Division of the FBI, fraud costs Colorado taxpayers billions of dollars every year. 

Sign our petition to say it’s time to hold these corporate criminals accountable.

 See these articles:

Corporate fraud ballot proposal meets opposition - February 27, 2008

 Voters favor 'tough-on-business' proposal - March 13, 2008

As the pressure grows for our students to learn and know more, so grows the demand on schools to raise achievement. It's a huge challenge for our country—and for the schools in which we work. The public appetite for dramatic solutions is substantial. And that appetite is being fed by a stream of unproven reform proposals that will do tremendous damage to our children, our schools and our profession. We have better solutions.

More than 20,000 paraprofessionals and school-related personnel represented by the Oregon School Employees Association have voted to affiliate with the AFT, marking the largest affiliation of an independent union in AFT history.

Over a period of just seven weeks, from Jan. 14-March 3, a total of 26,419 people took the online 2008 Health Care for America Survey sponsored by the AFL-CIO and Working America. Most are insured and employed. Most are college graduates. More than half are union members.

 

With a focus on education as a top priority for Colorado, Governor Bill Ritter, Jr has issued an Executive Order to form the P-20 Council.  The Colorado Promise states that Colorado will increase access to early childhood education, improve student learning in our K-12 system , evaluate teacher quality, reduce our high-school drop-out rates and make a smooth transition into college. 

 

The establishment of the P-20 Council made of business leaders, policymakers and educators to improve education from early childhood through postgraduate studies. The council will strive for a partnerships between K-12 and higher education to ensure that our high school graduates enter college ready for college-level studies and equipped with skills needed to enter a modern workforce.

 

 

 

On Saturday, April 28, 2007, delegates from around the state attend AFT Colorado's Convention at Lone Tree Golf Club and Hotel.

 

 

America's most celebrated historian shared a unique perspective on America's history and its place in the world.

The only new thing in the world is the history you don't know.


Harry S. Truman, quoted by David McCulloch 
 
 

AFT Colorado has joined with other AFT affiliates in supporting a groundbreaking collaborative effort to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa.  Your donation goes toward ...

*  Funding/support for African programs.

* Training African teaches with AIDS preventions, counseling and care programs.

*Workshop Training.

Visit http://www.aft.org/partners/africa-aids/index.htm to obtain more information.  Donations received at AFT Colorado will receive both a campaign pin and a wrist band. 

 

 

 

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