The Department of Health/DOE School Health is supposed to send out a letter to staff and parents whenever there has been a case or cases of a reportable disease (for example, tuberculosis or bacterial meningitis.)

Head lice are small insects with six legs usually the size of a sesame seed (the seeds on burger buns).

Annuity Fund back to top The Board shall contribute at the rate of $400 per year to the Teachers’ Retirement System to be credited monthly to the annuity account of each teacher who is at the maximum step of his/her salary schedule. The Board will...

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...

The Union agrees to maintain its eligibility to represent all teachers by continuing to admit persons to membership without discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, handicapping...

The precise risk of disease from low-level, short-term exposure to asbestos is unknown. There is no scientific evidence that casual exposure to asbestos — such as the amounts typically found in schools — will cause a problem.

The Board recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining representative of all those assigned as teachers in the regular day school instructional program; all those employed as per session teachers; all those assigned as teachers at WNYE; all...

Sandra Feldman (1939-2005), was elected in May 1997 as president of the 1.3 million-member American Federation of Teachers. She was the 15th president of the AFT and the union’s first female president since 1930. She also was elected to the Executive...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a serious disease caused by the germ Mycobacterium tuberculosis and/or Mycobacterium bovis. Mycobacterium tuberculosis causes most TB in humans. Mycobacterium bovis is part of the tuberculosis family, primarily a disease of...