- Since its launch in 2009, the AFT Innovation Fund and its grantees have tackled important challenges—from designing new systems for teacher development and evaluation, to combating inequity head-on by creating community schools with wraparound services for students; from making that critical link between school and career for students through career and technical education, to confronting disparate treatment of students of color with solutions like restorative justice practices. Read more about how the AFT has invested in education reform and learned from our successes and failures in the Innovation Fund’s new report, “A ‘Big Bet’ on Educator-Led Collaborations and Solutions.”