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Clint Winant

Age
65
Summary
Clint Winant was an elementary school teacher at PS 121 in the Bronx, where he taught for 25 years and served as a UFT representative.

Clint Winant was an elementary school teacher at PS 121 in the Bronx, where he taught for 25 years and served as a UFT representative. He was loved by staff and students alike for his jovial personality, his willingness to chaperone noisy elementary school classes on museum field trips all over the city, his penchant for wearing costumes to celebrate every holiday and the hilarious songs he wrote for the faculty retirement parties he emceed. Clint was educated at Dutchess Community College and Hunter College.

The delegation that delivered supplies to the U.S. Virgin Islands included UFT P

Unions to the rescue

Thanks to a partnership between the UFT, NYSUT and the AFT, every single teacher in the U.S. Virgin Islands — 1,400 in all — received a tote bag full of school supplies to help their classrooms recover from the 2017 hurricanes that devastated the islands.

Viral lesson

Paraprofessional Hollie Tubbs of PS 231 in Brooklyn set out to inspire her students during Black History Month but she ended up inspiring people across the world after a photo went viral on social media.

Music teacher Elana Master plays boomwacker instruments with her students.

A wonderful gift

The PTA at PS 705 in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, gave the school’s teachers a remarkable gift: $750 each to use at their discretion during the school year.

Say goodbye to SESIS

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.

Anne Bush

Age
72
Summary
Anne Bush was a proud member of the UFT for over 3 decades, ending her long career as a teacher for gifted and talented kindergarten students at PS 153 in Queens.

Anne Bush was a proud member of the UFT for over three decades, ending her long career as a teacher for gifted and talented kindergarten students at PS 153 in Queens. She was known as a dedicated, compassionate and energetic educator who loved using the outdoors as her classroom — taking her students on nature walks and science-related field trips. Her love of arts and crafts was reflected in the creative projects her students produced. Anne gave her late husband Thomas Bush the gift of life by donating him one of her kidneys. She is survived by her brother, Dr.

Benjamina Hillery

Age
97
Summary
Benjamina Hillery was a UFT member for over 35 years, most recently as a teacher at PS 304 in Brooklyn.

Benjamina Hillery was a UFT member for over 35 years, most recently as a teacher at PS 304 in Brooklyn. Over the years, she also worked as a science coordinator and administrator and taught English language learners. Benjamina was one of the earliest African American women to graduate from Hunter College in the 1940s. She studied Latin and was fluent in French and Spanish and earned several master's degrees in education throughout her career. She also maintained an interest in politics, writing letters on behalf of civil rights and women’s liberation causes.

class size, overcrowded, overcrowding

New contractual process kicks in to address oversize classes

The UFT began an expedited process of contract arbitration to resolve oversize classes in five chronically overcrowded high schools as the class-size reduction provisions in the new DOE-UFT contract took effect.

Woman standing at podium with crowd of people behind her

50 schools join Bronx plan

Fifty schools in the Bronx, East New York, Brownsville and Far Rockaway will join the Bronx Collaborative Schools Plan, an initiative that empowers educators at these schools to drive school improvement.

Raquel Casona

Age
86
Summary
Raquel Casona was a UFT member for over 40 years.

Raquel Casona was a UFT member for over 40 years. Originally from Cuba, Raquel began her career in education as a school aide and then became a Pupil Accounting Secretary at Julia Richman High School in Manhattan, where she worked until her retirement in March 1994. She was known as a very caring person and loved by all who knew her. Raquel is survived by her son David Casona, her daughter, Nancy Casona-Castro, and two grandchildren.

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