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Unions help get hospital cost law passed
A new city Office of Healthcare Accountability will force all New York City hospitals to disclose what they charge for medical procedures and make it harder for them to engage in price gouging.
Update on DOE and TRS data breach
The DOE recently notified the approximately 130,000 in-service UFT members and 36,000 former employees whose confidential information might have been exposed in a large data breach in June.
Per session rates for school counselors in the 2023 tentative contract agreement
These salary schedules are connected with the tentative DOE-UFT contract agreement announced on June 13, 2023.
School Counselors Chapter Newsletter - June 2023
Information about the tentative contract agreement, excessing, school-based options, performance reviews and the 20th annual UFT School Counselors Conference.
Educators seek more time for students
Administrative tasks get in the way of their students’ learning, according to 87% of educators in the union's new survey of its school-based members, who handed out a leaflet with the poll results across the five boroughs during a Week of Action in April as part of the union's fight for a fair contract.
First religious charter school gets OK
An Oklahoma board approved the nation’s first religious charter school, agreeing to publicly fund a school where Catholic teachings will be incorporated into lessons throughout the day — and testing the constitutional bounds of taxpayer funding for religious education.