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Resolution ensuring optimal room temperatures for all students and educators in NYC Public Schools
The UFT will fight to ensure adequate working conditions and temperatures for all and continue to demand that every room in every building occupied by students and/or UFT members has regulated and acceptable temperatures at all times during the...
Resolution to support parent, community and staff engagement at Panel for Educational Policy meetings
The UFT supports parents and the community in their desire to advocate for their young people’s fair and just education in New York City’s public schools.
Resolution to urge the DOE to comply with the new class size law
The UFT will urge the Mayor and Chancellor to adopt the Class Size Working Group’s proposals to ensure that schools are able to lower class sizes to the levels required by law.
Finding joy
Learn how to tap into daily moments of joy that can have a profound impact on our mood and happiness.
$400 retention bonus paid on May 16
The first annual retention bonus negotiated as part of the 2023 DOE-UFT contract will be paid on May 16 to eligible full-time employees and to eligible per diem employees on June 3.
Testimony on the health care workforce
Anne Goldman, UFT Vice President for Non-DOE Members, delivered testimony before the Assembly Committees on Health, Mental Health, People with Disabilities, Higher Education & Labor on the health care workforce
The UFT and Federation of Nurses/UFT highlight state health department's failure to enforce state safe-staffing law
The UFT and the Federation of Nurses/UFT accused the state health department of failing to enforce the safe staffing law passed by the legislature nearly three years ago.
More than 850 New York City high-need schools have the space today to meet the state’s class size limits
With the new state budget mandating that New York City make smaller class sizes a priority, UFT President Michael Mulgrew identified 856 high-need city schools with space to reduce class sizes this September.
Testimony on the Close to Home Program
Patricia Crispino, District Representative for District 79, delivered testimony before the New York City Council Committee on Children & Youth’s oversight hearing on the Close to Home program.
Medicare Part B and IRMAA reimbursement update
If you are eligible for IRMAA, now is the time to file it. Read for more details and important links.