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Article Five — Licensure, Assignment and Appointment
A. Regularized Licensure The Board of Education shall provide for the regular licensure of school secretary personnel consistent with the needs of the instructional program and subject to applicable law and the by-laws of the Board of Education. The...
Article Seven — School-Wide Bonus
The Board and the UFT jointly support, and pledge to work together to implement on a pilot basis, a school-wide based bonus program pursuant to which educators will be awarded substantial cash bonuses for student achievement gains. The program will...
Carpal tunnel syndrome
Carpal tunnel syndrome is a disorder of the hand (caused by swollen tendons in the wrist) resulting from repetitious, forceful motion of the hands and wrists.
Article Five — Hours of Work
5.1 Normal Workday For the purposes of determining application of an Employee’s regular compensation rate, the Employee’s normal workday will be seven and one-quarter (7.25) work hours for Employees working a five-day workweek, nine and one quarter...
How Long Island City HS got its groove back
The turnaround at Long Island City HS was the result of a set of strategies that included smaller class sizes and more individualized attention. But collaboration — between administrators and staff and among the teachers themselves — was the linchpin...
Visionaries
Teacher Tisha Gomez and the students in the vision technology program at the School for Cooperative Technical Education in Manhattan give the gift of sight, free of charge, to students and community members every day, producing eyeglasses in their...
Arbitrator rules in union’s favor on medical accommodations
An independent arbitrator has upheld the union's position and ruled that the city must offer work outside school buildings to immunocompromised members who — even vaccinated — are at high risk of contracting serious illness from a COVID-19 infection...
UFT proposes 5-point plan to help students recover from the pandemic
The UFT called on the city and the state to adopt a five-point plan to deal with the impact of COVID-19 on public school students, including earmarking more than $1 billion to address the psychological effects and academic learning losses in New York...
School safety
School safety is a prerequisite for teaching and learning. The UFT’s Safety and Health Department is dedicated to protecting all UFT members from safety threats that can confront them in schools. Here are answers to some of the most common questions...