At their annual recognition dinner at union headquarters ion May 8, school nurses celebrated each other, their union and their mission of compassionate caring for the students in New York City public schools.

After almost a decade of complaints, malfunctions and payments of more than $70 million to thousands of UFT members to compensate them for work outside school hours, the DOE is finally pulling the plug on the $130 million Special Education Student Information System that it launched in 2011.

It’s not right to dance on a grave, but with SESIS we’ll make an exception.

The largest school district in the nation has an unacceptably low number of buildings that are accessible for students with disabilities.

Let me introduce myself. I’m MaryJo Ginese, the union’s new vice president for special education.

When UFT President Michael Mulgrew introduced Carmen Alvarez, the winner of the Charles Cogen Award at Teacher Union Day, he praised her passion for advocating for special needs children during her 28 years as the UFT vice president for special education.