Know Your Contract
Please be aware: excessive absences and lateness will get you suspended
or terminated.
We are still in arbitration to determine whether paras are mandated
to attend faculty conferences; we expect to settle this matter soon.
- Article 12D. Placement of Excessed Paraprofessionals
Unless a principal denies the placement, an excessed paraprofessional will be placed by the Department of Education into a vacancy within his or her district/superintendency; or if such a vacancy is not available, then in a vacancy within his or her region, or if such a vacancy is not available, then in a vacancy in the same borough, and if such a vacancy is not available then in a vacancy citywide. The DOE will place the excessed paraprofessional who is not so placed in an Alternative Paraprofessional Reserve (APR) position in the school from which he or she is excessed, or in another school in the same district or superintendency.
Paraprofessionals identified as being at risk of being excessed at the commencement of the following school year will be informed of this no later than June 15; but if the para is not so identified until after June 15 then he or she will be notified as soon as is practicable. The deadlines for excessing will continue to be governed by applicable law.
A paraprofessional who has been excessed to another school may request an opportunity to return to the school from which he or she was excessed if within a year a vacancy should occur in that school. Such a request will have priority over any other transfer or appointment to that vacancy and it shall be effectuated at the next reorganization of the school to which the para is returning, except that should the vacancy occur within 10 school days after the para is excessed, he or she shall be informed of the vacancy and he or she may return to the school immediately.
Can We Count On You?
Volunteer to Help Home Child-Care Providers Unionize
UFT members are being asked to help the UFT in the final push to organize New York City’s home-based child-care providers.
We are hoping that the State Employment Relations Board will certify the 12,000 ballots the union handed in in May and schedule a mail-ballot election asking the providers if they want the UFT to represent them.
You can help:
• Make UFT phone bank calls to remind providers to mail in their ballots..
• Knock on doors of home child-care providers to remind them to send
in their ballot.
• Call 1-212-598-9288 or e-mail uftproviders@uft.org to tell
us how you can help.
Summer Hours at the UFT
The union’s borough offices will remain open to service members through Friday, June 29. Borough offices will reopen Monday, Aug. 27.
Beginning
Monday, July 2, all union services will be provided at UFT headquarters,
52 Broadway in lower Manhattan, Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m. and Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
All offices will be closed Wednesday, July 4.
Security procedures require you to check in at the reception desk
in the lobby of
52 Broadway and to show a photo ID.