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UFT focuses on four contested City Council races

The UFT has made endorsements in all but one City Council race and in the district attorney races in the Nov. 7 election, but the union’s borough political action committees have been focusing on four contested Council races: one in the Bronx, one in Brooklyn and two in Queens.


UFT’s Bronx borough office relocates

The UFT’s Bronx borough office relocated over the summer from Halsey Street to 2100 Bartow Ave. in Co-op City, near the Bay Plaza Shopping Center.

Nation facing school nurse shortage

More than one-third of schools across the country do not have a full-time on-site nurse as students face higher rates of chronic illness, an unprecedented youth mental health crisis and the waning COVID-19 epidemic amid a national nursing shortage.


A new labor strategy: the short strike

It’s becoming more common for U.S .unions, especially in the health care sector, to call a short, fixed-duration strike and then return to the bargaining table.

Los Angeles limits charter co-locations

The Los Angeles Board of Education has approved a resolution to limit where charter schools can rent on-campus classroom space from the district. 
As a result, about one-third of the district — 350 campuses — could become exempt from future space-sharing, district officials said. 


Beefing up bilingual & ENL ranks

With more than 20,000 asylum-seeking children now enrolled in New York City public schools, the UFT was able to negotiate a new incentive program and certification changes in an effort to expand the number of bilingual education and English as a New Language (ENL) teachers to teach these students.