AFT CONVENTION TRIVIA

Delegates to the 1984 AFT Convention, which was held in Washington DC approved the schedule allowing for conventions to be held every two years. This allowed AFT to hold its popular QuEST conference to be held in Washington in the off-years.

The first AFT Biennial Convention was held in Chicago in 1986
At that time:

• AFT had 630,000 members
• Albert Shanker was AFT Preident