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A letter to District 75 members
The following email was sent on Friday, Dec. 4, to all District 75 members from UFT President Michael Mulgrew.
School psychologists' new role in disability-based test exemptions
The following email was sent on Friday, Dec. 4, to all school psychologists from Social Workers and Psychologists Chapter Leader Raul Garcia.
New DOE guidance for paraprofessionals
The following update was sent to all DOE-employed paraprofessionals from UFT President Michael Mulgrew and UFT Paraprofessionals Chapter Leader Shelvy Young-Abrams on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2020.
Learning on tap
For his work at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School, where he has made water the core area of study this year in his environmental science classes, Jared Fox received a Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching Science...
UFT helping members make loan burdens manageable
Cheryl Martin was worried sick for years about her student debt: $166,000 that hung over her like a cloud nearly a decade after she left graduate school. "The anxiety I had was tremendous," said Martin, a teacher at PS 449 in the Bronx.
Brooklyn community fights charter expansion
Educators, students and parents in Bushwick, Brooklyn, turned out in force at a hearing on Feb. 10 to protest the proposed expansion of a charter school in their district.
Funding our future
The UFT is once again marshalling its forces to ensure we get a state budget that protects public education in New York City.
Never Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg cannot be elected president.
District teams get training
Around 200 UFT members gathered for a weekend retreat in February to learn how they can make a difference for their co-workers, families and communities as members of the union’s new district-level political action teams.
Kudos to Matthew Foglino, Wings Academy HS, the Bronx
Wings Academy HS Chapter Leader Matthew Foglino's adept use of the operational issues process not only addressed a paperwork problem for his members but also solved it for hundreds of other teachers at a dozen or more Bronx high schools who were...