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Pulling together a diverse group of experts, the UFT Family Child Care Providers Chapter held the first meeting of its new advisory board at the union’s lower Manhattan headquarters on April 5.
UFT members of functional chapters — educators whose work generally does not involve standing at the head of a classroom — took part in daylong training sessions held at the Westchester Hilton in Rye Brook, N.Y., on March 9 and 10.
Parents, children and child care providers have been left in chaos in the wake of the Oct. 1 launch of EarlyLearn NYC, Mayor Bloomberg’s long-anticipated and ambitious overhaul of New York City’s early childhood education services, according to officials at the UFT, which represents 21,000 family child care providers.
The city’s overhaul of subsidized early childhood education services, dubbed EarlyLearn NYC, is wreaking havoc for family child care providers in yet another example of poor management and shameful ineptitude by the Bloomberg administration.
Mayor Bloomberg’s EarlyLearn NYC redesign of child care, which took effect on Oct. 1, is resulting in payment disruptions for many network providers. Your union is fighting on your behalf to ensure that you get paid for child care services rendered and to get you connected with a new network.
Thanks to a new partnership between the UFT’s Family Child Care Providers Chapter and public media provider WNET, more than 130 providers are now ready to make science come alive for their students this summer using WNET’s “Sid the Science Kid” Science Camp curriculum.
I want to thank those of you who voted in our recent chapter elections. I am extremely proud that you have re-elected me as chair of our chapter, and I thank you on behalf of myself and my colleagues on the newly elected chapter executive board. We have many challenges ahead, but with your support we will meet them all head on.
In a landslide election victory, UFT Family Child Care Providers Chapter Chair Tammie Miller was re-elected to her position on June 29. Miller’s second term in office officially began on July 1 and runs for three years, until July 2015. Her newly elected colleagues on the chapter’s executive board are also serving three-year terms that began on July 1.
Peruvian immigrants to the United States, Victor and Zenaida Bernaola never intended to enter the child care field but today run a vibrant, bilingual group family program, Happy Kids, from the comfort of their home in the Fordham section of the Bronx. The Bernaolas’ story is a familiar one in New York, and especially so in the city’s various immigrant communities, which include a substantial number of child care providers.
The UFT, family child care providers who are represented by the union, and child care advocates are up in arms about major changes to city-subsidized child care set in motion by Mayor Bloomberg.
Tammie Miller, the chapter’s incumbent chair, has been re-elected to her position at the head of a 20-member slate. Miller and her fellow chapter officers officially began their term in office on July 1.
Thanks to a new partnership between the UFT’s Family Child Care Providers Chapter and public media provider WNET, more than 130 providers are now ready to make science come alive for their students this summer using WNET’s “Sid the Science Kid” Science Camp curriculum.
The UFT, the family child care providers represented by the union and child care advocates are up in arms about major changes to city-subsidized child care set in motion by Mayor Bloomberg.
At the June 13 Delegate Assembly, UFT President Michael Mulgrew reflected on the grueling school year that was and discussed what to expect in the year ahead. Events such as the emergence of Occupy Wall Street and the fight for the millionaire’s tax “feel more like four years ago than just the beginning of this school year,” Mulgrew said.
Chanting “No cuts to child care” and “Yes we can,” 500 UFT-represented family child care providers rallied against the mayor’s plans to cut subsidized child care for close to 16,000 low-income children, at Harlem’s historic Alhambra Ballroom on April 24.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew testified before the New York State Assembly Standing Committees on Children and Families; Oversight, Analysis and Investigation; Social Services; and the Assembly Taskforce on Women's Issues.
About 5,000 family child care providers will soon be receiving an assortment of toys, books, puzzles and blocks — all linked to a literacy-based curriculum developed by the UFT Teacher Center — thanks to grant money in their first union contract and an American Federation of Teachers innovation grant.
Tax season is upon us, but don’t despair — help is at hand. The Food Bank For New York City, a longtime friend of the UFT, offers free income tax preparation services for eligible New York City residents at dozens of sites across the city.
It’s important to serve healthy food and snacks for the children in your care. Here’s an example of an easy to prepare recipe you can try in your home.
The UFT on Feb. 2 filed a class action suit against the city’s Administration for Children’s Services and the Hunts Point Multi-Service center — a non-profit social service agency — to recover an estimated $100,000 in funds that the organizations have refused to pay more than 40 home day care providers in the Bronx.
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