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Q&A on Excessing
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Excessing is the process of reducing staff in a particular school or office when the number of available positions in a title or license area in that school is lower than the number of people in the school who require an assignment in that title or...
Healthy boundaries
It's important to set and maintain personal boundaries, or the limits and rules we set for ourselves in our relationships with others or with work, in order to keep relationships healthy. Here are some strategies to help you.
Kudos to Catrina Como, PS 376, Brooklyn
When Catrina Como became chapter leader at PS 376 in Brooklyn, she faced a tricky situation: The principal was demanding, and staff did not know their rights and were reluctant to speak up for themselves. “I work with a lot of amazing teachers who...
Article Four — Health Insurance, Pensions and Other Benefits
A. Choice of Health Plans Effective September 1, 2005 the Board will continue to provide for each employee covered by this Agreement who regularly works twenty (20) hours or more a week during the ten (10) month work year of September through June...
Article Six — Salaries and Other Compensation
6.1 Staff LPN Rates. 6.1.1 Regular Full-Time Employees. The minimum annualized Base Compensation Rate for Regular Full-Time Employees is Effective Date Amount Per Annum July 1, 2014 $46,478.37 December 31, 2015 $46,943.15 October 1, 2016 $47,647.30 6...
Separate and Unequal: The Failure of New York City Charter Schools to Serve the City’s Neediest Students: Jan. 2010
Despite the fact that New York’s charter school legislation prohibits discrimination in student admissions, it is now clear that New York City’s charter schools, as a group, are failing to serve a representative sample of the city’s public school...
Paraprofessional Handbook
Read the Paraprofessionals Chapter Member Handbook, which was designed to be a source of information, offering insights, resources, and tools for paraprofessionals.
Good Riddance to NYC’s Absent Teacher Reserve Pool. It Was a Bad Idea from the Start.
The Absent Teacher Reserve pool — an initiative that wasted both teacher talent and taxpayer funds — is coming to an end. Its demise is long overdue.
4X4 builds readers
A successful UFT pilot program that places teachers from the Absent Teacher Reserve with small groups of students for focused reading instruction will provide more opportunity for ATRs after its inclusion in the DOE-UFT tentative contract agreement.