How does PAT specifically differ from unions?
PAT provides our members a choice that is affordable, independent, non-profit and non-partisan. As educators, we realize how hard you work for the paycheck you earn. Therefore, we keep dues affordable by eliminating the “state and federal tax” that the unions require to advance their highly complex and expensive political approach. Besides our individual members, we are not affiliated or indebted to any political, religious or other organization. Our principal focus is our mission-to protect and promote our members and their professional development, rights, and interests. PAT focuses more on improving how teachers perform in the classroom and less on how politicians perform in the “backrooms.” Our experience as teachers informs us to spend our efforts where learning and education really take place-in the schoolhouse-not in the statehouse.
