Thanks to two well-trained, quick-thinking AFT members, 18 schoolchildren in Florida were able to safely escape their bus when the engine burst into flames. Driver Augustus Simpson and monitor Dorothy Manning, both members of the Orange Education...

Thanks to two well-trained, quick-thinking AFT members, 18 schoolchildren in Florida were able to safely escape their bus when the engine burst into flames. Driver Augustus Simpson and monitor Dorothy Manning, both members of the Orange Education Support Professionals Association in Orlando, evacuated the bus of preschool through fifth-grade students within minutes. (They are pictured with local union president Damary Mercado.) Read the full story.