This is the June 17 issue of the Brooklyn parent newsletter.

Find out about the new lead para title, help for paras becoming teachers, change in certification for Level III paras, the Open Market Transfer and more.

More than 200 UFT members and staff gathered at union headquarters in Manhattan to kick off Pride Week, celebrate our diversity and to remember the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting.

The United Federation of Teachers will proudly support and march in the 2016 Pride parade with our brothers and sisters in honor and memory of the Orlando victims.

The United Federation of Teachers will work with the Department of Education to change the rotation system so that guidance counselors and social workers in the ATR pool will be assigned to schools for a sufficient period so that they can continue to...

The UFT hosted its 47th annual Albert Shanker College Scholarship Awards ceremony and reception on June 13 in Shanker Hall at union headquarters in Manhattan, giving out $1 million in scholarships to 180 high school students from throughout the city and nine graduate students.

A record crowd of 600 retirees gathered at the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan on June 13 for the 53rd annual Retired Teachers Chapter Luncheon and to honor colleagues for their activism in the chapter, the union and their communities.

UFT members were visible and vocal at the Puerto Rican Day Parade on June 12, 2016.

This is the June 9 issue of the Manhattan parent newsletter.

More than 150 educators, administrators and community health advocates gathered at Brooklyn Borough Hall on June 8 for the 2016 New York City Wellness Poster Contest and Excellence in School Wellness Award ceremony. More than 50 schools throughout the city were honored for educators’ work promoting health and wellness, and students with award-winning posters on the theme of wellness were celebrated.