You may reduce your probation by one to two years if you meet the criteria for these scenarios:
Jarema credit: If you worked as a regular substitute under the same license and at the same school level, you can reduce your probationary period by up to two years.
Traveling tenure: If you received tenure in one license area and elected to take an appointment in a new license area, or if you were tenured in another school in New York State, you may be eligible to reduce your tenure by a year.
Records of this work and credits for service should be applied automatically, but it’s in your best interest to double check to make sure you received them.
In addition, if you were appointed and have already received tenure, but later teach under either an ENL, bilingual extension or special education certification, your probationary period will be reduced to one year. Read more »
See the Know Your Rights section of the UFT website for more information about achieving tenure.