About NEA

NEA-AFT Partnership

The nation's two leading education organizations, NEA and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), formed the NEA FT Partnership out of a commitment by both organizations to work together on behalf of our members and on behalf of all those whom our members serve.

As separate organizations and through the Partnership, the NEA and AFT are committed to nurturing and improving public education above all. We are determined to fight for family needs, which must be met in order to make our public schools the equalizer they have been and should be for society. This encompasses quality of life issues, such as health care for all Americans, safe neighborhoods and a caring government.

The Partnership leaves each organization free to differ and to conduct each organization's work separately and independently, but enables the two groups to work together in a new relationship focused at every level of our organizations on common interests we share about critical educational issues and issues of vital significance to children.

See the NEAFT Partnership Document for more information.