The Chapter Leader and the Principal consult on the activities, number of positions, qualifications, and duties and responsibilities for each activity. Teachers should be given a preference sheet with all of that information listed, and they get to...

The School Safety unit also offers a number of workshops on safety planning, the discipline code, DASA and other topics.

A. Retention and Seniority of Substitutes Seniority shall govern in the retention of regular substitutes as follows: Persons on the regular attendance teacher eligible list who have substitute certificates have preference over all other persons for...

Karen Alford is vice president for elementary schools. She spearheads the union's United Community Schools initiative, which strengthens schools by offering wraparound health and social services in the school building for the entire community.

Richard Mantell is the UFT vice president for middle schools. He received his bachelor’s degree in business management and finance from Brooklyn College, his master’s degree in education with a concentration in guidance counseling from Long Island...

Janella T. Hinds is vice president for academic high schools at the UFT . Janella earned her bachelor's degree in sociology with a concentration in African American studies from Princeton University and her master's in social studies education from...

MaryJo Ginese worked for the Department of Education as an occupational therapist for more than 21 years. After her promotion to supervisor of therapists in 2007, she provided exemplary clinical support to occupational therapists, where she was known...

WHEREAS President Obama and the Democratic majority of the U.S. Senate have refused to consider extortional proposals to defund the Affordable Care Act in order to fund the government and to raise the debt ceiling limit, RESOLVED that the UFT urge...