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Enhancing access

The largest school district in the nation has an unacceptably low number of buildings that are accessible for students with disabilities.

The struggle for adequate hospital staffing

Our goal is to provide excellent care and help patients achieve their optimum level of functioning. To reach that goal, we are committed to achieving staffing levels in hospitals that provide for safe patient care.

Power tools to get the job done

As a chapter leader I always wanted better tools to resolve those kinds of issues without escalating them to a grievance, if possible. Now we have them.

Learning together

The site coordinator at a new UFT Teacher Center in the Bronx recently told the New York Teacher about the time she stepped out of the center soon after it opened and “almost teared up” when she returned to find at least 10 educators helping each...

Deserving endorsements

As a member of the UFT Delegate Assembly since 1988, I read fellow retiree Martin Boxer’s critique of the UFT endorsement policy [Comments, Dec. 6] with utter disbelief.

Fact-based knowledge

Some years back I showed students Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and a few parents complained that students were being exposed to propaganda and political bias.

Endorsements one-sided

After looking at the list of endorsements for the election, I began to realize that if Abe Lincoln were running he wouldn’t rate a UFT endorsement.

Golden was ‘bad for teachers and students’

Soon-to-be-former Sen. Marty Golden is bad for both teachers and students, as well as our schools!

Another horrible shooting

As a child of the 1960s, the anti-war Woodstock generation, I am crushed and saddened by the hate and gun violence in our country, the latest atrocity being the shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Cautious praise for District 15 diversity pilot

The District 15 diversity pilot approved by the mayor and the chancellor in September is a valiant project! I do have some questions though: