Search
Paras get due process, extra $$ compensation
The tentative DOE-UFT contract announced on Oct. 11 features important improvements for paraprofessionals, including job protections like due process rights similar to those of teachers.
Governance 101
A comparison of the 2002 and 2009 school governance laws.
Legacy of a ‘long, hard journey’
More than 1,000 UFT members and guests — including James Geigel, his immigrant grandparents Angelina and Modesto Hernandez and his mother Nitza Hernandez — all paras or paras who became teachers — packed the New York Hilton's Grand Ballroom to...
City should create smaller classes by closing tax loopholes: Dec. 2014
New York City should embark next September on a long-term initiative to lower class size in the public schools to no more than 15 students in kindergarten through third grade. A UFT analysis shows that the administration could introduce it this fall...