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May 24, 2012
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The Federation of Nurses/UFT is partnering with the Long Island University Hospital and the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation in mentoring nursing students who attend Long Island University. The nurse mentoring program, funded by the city’s Center for Economic Opportunity, offers one-on-one support from Federation of Nurses members to nursing students in person, over the phone or via email.
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May 24, 2012
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Teachers and staff at the Academy of the City Charter School in Long Island City have announced they will seek to be represented by the United Federation of Teachers.
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May 24, 2012
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With Mayor Bloomberg moving to slash child care subsidies for more than 14,000 low-income children in the city’s 2013 budget, UFT President Michael Mulgrew defended the importance of subsidized child care for New York’s working families at a state Assembly hearing on May 3.
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May 24, 2012
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Alarmed by Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to reduce the Department of Education’s current obligations to report on class sizes and temporary classrooms, the UFT on May 14 gave written testimony to the City Council registering its opposition to the mayor’s recommendations.
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May 24, 2012
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George Fesko, a longtime educator and trade unionist who served as secretary of the UFT, died on May 13. He was 78. Fesko’s career began in 1953, when he taught social studies at what was then JHS 160 in lower Manhattan. Serving as the school’s chapter leader from 1966 to 1970, he was elected the union’s District 1 representative in 1968.
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May 24, 2012
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UFT President Michael Mulgrew told a packed room of City Council members attending the union’s annual legislative briefing on May 15 that its top priority for the budget for the coming year was retaining the more than 14,000 child care slots for low-income families that the mayor wants to eliminate.
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May 24, 2012
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After refusing the union’s suggestions for two years, the city had a surprise change of heart on May 17, announcing that it will offer “generous” buyouts to teachers who have spent a year or more in the Absent Teacher Reserve. Negotiations over the terms and amount of the buyout will begin in the next several weeks, UFT President Michael Mulgrew said.
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May 24, 2012
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Following months of negotiations between the state’s teachers unions, legislators and Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy on how to overhaul public school policy, the governor announced on May 8 what all parties agreed was a “historic compromise.” Among the bill’s particulars: an additional $100 million in state funding for schools.
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May 24, 2012
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Two dozen high-performing Los Angeles school, in search of more money and more flexibility over curriculum, testing and schedules, want to become charter campuses. The 24 San Fernando Valley schools would become “affiliated” or “dependent” charters which, unlike other charters, are still bound by the district’s union contracts.
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May 24, 2012
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The state-appointed School Reform Commission’s recently announced plan to privatize most of the Philadelphia School District — the commission calls it “decentralization” — is drawing fire from teachers, parents and community members. If approved, the plan would close 64 neighborhood schools in the next five years and send thousands of students to charter schools.
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