Woodard Tapped to Lead School Administrators

by Mike Hall, Aug 7, 2009

Diann Woodard is the new president of the School Administrators (AFSA). She was elected last week by delegates to the union’s constitutional convention, in Washington, D.C. 

Woodard becomes the sixth AFSA president and succeeds Jill Levy, who held the post since 2006. AFSA represents more than 20,000 school principals, assistant principals and other supervisors and education professionals in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 

Woodard says the union’s main goal is improving wages, hours and working conditions. 

We want to gain the right to collectively bargain for those who do not have it. And we want to improve the contracts for those affiliates who have contracts…we want to help train leaders so that they can build and maintain strong local unions. 

For the past three years, Woodard was the union’s executive vice president and has served as AFSA secretary-treasurer. The former assistant principal at two Detroit high schools says she first learned about unions and workers rights’ growing up in a UAW family in Michigan.

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