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• Casey: Use federal funds for ‘comprehensive’ evaluation model

  Leo Casey, the UFT vice president of academic high schools, proposed using federal Race to the Top funds for “a comprehensive model of teacher evaluation” in a discussion among education reformers about how to use money that may come from the new, competitive federal education improvement grant program.

• UFT: School staff should be priority for vaccine

  Teachers and other school staff should be among the groups given preference for the swine flu vaccine if they want it, UFT President Michael Mulgrew said.

• Governor halts mandatory inoculations, as union had hoped

  Gov. Paterson suspended the state directive requiring all health care workers to be vaccinated for seasonal and swine flu, citing a shortage of the vaccines. A chorus of opposition to the requirement had been growing, including from the Federation of Nurses/UFT, which supports vaccinations on a voluntary, not mandatory basis.

• School nurses at the ready

  School nurses will be on the frontlines of a large, new program to administer flu vaccine for the H1N1 (swine flu) virus this fall to all elementary school students whose parents have given written consent, Chapter Chair Pat Ross said.

• Schools count ways this year’s cuts have hurt

  A $223 million midyear budget cut — the amount that Gov. David Paterson is threatening to take from city schools in January — will do real damage to classrooms if a union survey of the harm already wrought by the $400 million in city budget cuts this fall is any indication.

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