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• Cutting Class: Budget shortfall having harsh impact on city schools

  A $223 million proposed midyear cut is still looming. New York Teacher talks with four chapter leaders to see how the first round of cuts has hurt teaching and learning in their schools.

• Members show interest in Measures of Effective Teaching study

  Nearly 50 schools have expressed interest in participating in the Measures of Effective Teaching Project, with more expected to come on board. There’s still time to participate!

• Honoring a proud history

  A sense of history, continuity and pride pervaded the UFT’s Teacher Union Day on Nov.1 at the Waldorf Astoria as more than 1,200 union activists gathered to honor their colleagues and leaders. The annual awards ceremony commemorates the union’s Nov. 7, 1960, strike for union recognition, something then common in the private sector but held by few municipal workers. It was a strike against the city that went against the odds and that few thought could be won.

• Parents and educators join forces for kids

  At the 12th annual UFT Parent Conference on Oct. 31, some 3,000 parents eagerly soaked up information and ideas about how to help their children in school — and signed up in record numbers to advocate in the political arena for adequate education funding.

• UFT in new budget battle

  “Don’t break the promises we have made to kids,” UFT President Mulgrew told the state Senate.

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