New York Teacher

May 10, 2012

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What teachers have been saying for years about the content on state ELA tests has finally resonated with journalists, professors and even the state education commissioner. After 8th-graders voiced their bewilderment over the questions on this year’s infamous “Hare and the Pineapple” passage, Commissioner John King struck it from the test. The irony here is that the new state tests, launched to fix the problems with the old discredited tests, so far seem no better, maybe worse.

Final budget proposal includes money for more teachers

Mayor Bloomberg’s final budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, released on May 3, restores 2,570 of some 6,000 teaching positions lost over the past five years — marking the first time in four years that the city will be replacing teachers who leave.

UFT protests PEP ‘charade’ at City Hall

Scores of parents and teachers rallied outside City Hall to protest the mayor’s school-closing policy on April 26, just hours before the city’s Panel for Educational Policy voted to shutter 24 struggling schools, dismiss their staffs and reopen them in the fall under new names.

NY Teacher Tabs

Q-and-A on Open Market Transfer Plan

Q & A on the issues | April 19, 2012

Per-session summer work for social workers and psychologists

Know your rights | April 19, 2012

Per-session activities for teachers

Know your rights | May 10, 2012

NYSUT Member Benefits

Know your benefits | May 10, 2012

Death benefits for in-service members

Know your benefits | April 19, 2012

Q-and-A on Open Market Transfer Plan