If a controversial topic is dominating the education debate today, it’s probably something that Al Shanker proposed decades ago

The new contract establishes school-based Special Education Committees and annual training of all staff on special education rules and regulations. These new rights and procedures will empower members with knowledge and give them an effective vehicle...

Throughout the school year, teachers apply for “per-session” activities that are done either before or after school, on the weekend or holidays, or during the summer. If you apply for and are accepted for such an activity, you are paid at the per...

The parties will have available copies of this Agreement upon request.

As paraprofessionals celebrate 50 years in the UFT, members can thank Velma Hill, the chapter’s founder and first chair, for leading the charge to uplift paras and their communities by transforming their job into a secure union career.

Where the Board is legally required to provide coverage for mandated paraprofessional services to children in special education programs, paraprofessionals employed to provide such coverage shall serve under the following conditions: No fewer than...

This Agreement shall become effective as of November 1, 2009 and shall continue in full force and effect through November 30, 2018.