Tom Brown reelected TRS trustee

Tom Brown, UFT assistant treasurer and the current chair of the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) Board, was decisively reelected to a three-year term as a TRS Board trustee, according to results released by the city Department of Education on June 2.

A Spanish teacher of 29 years and UFT chapter leader for 18, Brown began working in the UFT Pension Department in 1997. He has served on the TRS Board for the last 12 years and has participated in retirement and pension boards across New York State and the nation.

The reelection vote — which was open only to in-service TRS members — was conducted by the DOE at schools on May 13. Besides UFT members, those represented by the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators and CUNY’s Professional Staff…