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Article Eight — Safety
A. Assistance in Assault Cases The principal shall report as soon as possible but within 24 hours to the Office of Legal Services and to the Chief Executive of School Safety and Planning that an assault upon a teacher has been reported to him/her...
Article Nine — Due Process And Review Procedures
A. Teacher Files Official teacher files in a school shall be maintained under the following circumstances: No material derogatory to a teacher's conduct, service, character or personality shall be placed in the files unless the teacher has had an...
Article Ten — Union Activities, Privileges And Responsibilities
A. Restriction on Union Activities No teacher shall engage in Union activities during the time he/she is assigned to teaching or other duties, except that members of the Union's negotiating committee and its special consultants shall, upon proper...
Article Eleven — Complaint and Grievance Procedures
It is the policy of the Board to encourage discussion on an informal basis between a supervisor and an employee of any employee complaint. Such discussion should be held with a view to reaching an understanding which will dispose of the matter in a...
Article Twelve — Special Complaints
It is the declared objective of the parties to encourage the prompt and informal resolution of special complaints not covered by the Grievance Procedure and to dispose of such complaints as they arise and to provide recourse to orderly procedures for...
Article Thirteen — Legislative Action
The following Article is required by the Public Employee’s Fair Employment Act, as amended by Section 204a, approved March 10, 1969. It is agreed by and between the parties that any provision of this Agreement requiring legislative action to permit...
Article Fourteen — Duration
This Agreement shall become effective as of October 13, 2007 and shall continue in full force and effect through October 31, 2009.
Appendix A — False Accusations
Joel I Klein Chancellor Department of Education 52 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007 December 17, 2007 Randi Weingarten President United Federation of Teachers 52 Broadway New York, NY 10002 Dear Ms Weingarten, Notwithstanding any provision of the...
Joint Intentions and Commitments
Enhanced student achievement based upon high standards and expectations must be the driving force behind every activity of New York City public schools. To accomplish this, we must reinvent schools so that decision making is shared by those closest...
Article One — Union Recogition
The Board recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining representative of all those employed by the Board in the titles of School Psychologist, School Social Worker, School Psychologist-in-Training and School Social Worker-in-Training, including...