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Feb. 7-11 is National School Counseling Week

The following email was sent from School Counselors Chapter Leader Rosemarie Thompson to all school counselors on Monday, Jan. 31.

Information about District 79 and LYFE

The following email was sent from School Counselors Chapter Leader Rosemarie Thompson to all school counselors on Thursday, Jan. 27.

Has the New York State Education Department made any changes to the literacy teaching certification?

Yes, NYSED created a new Literacy (All Grades) certificate which may be applied for through the individual evaluation pathway as of June 29, 2022. This new Literacy (All Grades) certificate replaced the Literacy (Birth-Grade 6) and Literacy (Grades 5...

Has the New York State Education Department made any changes to science teaching certification requirements?

Yes, to help alleviate persistent statewide shortage areas in the sciences, which include biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics, NYSED has revised the content core requirement from 30 credits to 18 credits for anyone already holding a...

Michael Mulgrew re-elected UFT president with two-thirds of the vote

UFT President Michael Mulgrew has won his fifth term as the union’s president. Mulgrew, the Unity Caucus candidate, received 66.3 percent of the votes counted, while his closest competitor, United For Change candidate Camille Eterno, received 33.6...

Has the New York State Education Department updated requirements for liberal arts core courses needed to obtain teacher certification?

Yes. The New York State Board of Regents voted to eliminate the general core in liberal arts and sciences (LAS) requirement for certification, which included coursework in the following areas: artistic expression, communication, information retrieval...

Summer Rising resources for paraprofessionals

These resources for paraprofessionals working in the 2022 Summer Rising program outline protocol for working with students with disabilities.

Si Beagle Learning Center locations

Locations for Si Beagle Learning Centers

Resolution to support the elimination of distributive scoring for high school Regents exams

The UFT calls on the Chancellor to reinstate Regents scoring at the home school when there is adequate staff to comply with state regulations, so that teachers can remain at their regularly assigned sites.

Resolution on observing a moment of silence in NYC public schools in commemoration of 9/11 on the anniversary or the first school day afterwards

Our union calls on the city and the DOE to implement a moment of silence to mark 9/11 and provide city students with a developmentally-appropriate and instructionally-sound social studies/history/community learning curriculum about the Sept. 11, 2001...