Grouping students, sessions, paperwork reduction, audiology, PD, tenure and travel reimbursement and approval certification.

UFT members from co-located Park West and Manhattan Bridges high schools in Manhattan met with UFT President Michael Mulgrew on Nov. 3 to discuss with the building’s air quality problems and the challenges of teaching in schools in which more than 76 percent of students are bilingual.

The DOE has informed the UFT that all 2014–15 permits that expired in October 2015 will be honored through November 2015.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew met with staff members on Monday, Nov. 2 at Goldie Maple Academy, a K-8 school in Far Rockaway, Queens, to discuss the school's unique reconfiguration of the workday as part of the PROSE program.

More than 1,200 members packed the Grand Ballroom at the New York Hilton for Teacher Union Day on Nov. 1 to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the first UFT strike and to honor those whose efforts have made a difference in people’s lives. The first-ever Schools in Action awards were given to seven UFT chapters for their solidarity, creativity and engagement in the #AllKidsNeed campaign.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew discussed teacher evaluations, testing, school funding, the campaign to celebrate public schools and the union's goals for this year when he met with members from District 3 on Oct. 28.

More than 200 new UFT members in the Bronx came to the Bronx UFT office on Thursday, Oct. 29 for a meet and greet with Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina and UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew met with about 60 members from two schools that share a building in the Belmont section of the Bronx — PS 57, Crescent School, and PS 273, Frederick Douglass Academy V — to discuss issues ranging from class size to tenure.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew visited MS 839 and co-located PS 130 Upper School and P 53 in Brooklyn on Oct. 29 to discuss union issues, building up school-based chapters and education concerns for the coming year.