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Q&A on Excessing
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Excessing is the process of reducing staff in a particular school or office when the number of available positions in a title or license area in that school is lower than the number of people in the school who require an assignment in that title or...
What can I do if staff members at my school are asked to complete excessive amounts of paperwork?
The last three DOE-UFT contracts contain provisions for paperwork reduction. If members are asked to complete redundant or excessive paperwork, you can raise this with your school's chapter leader, who is empowered to resolve these issues. A chapter...
Paperwork and Operational Resolution Process Presentation 2023
In the 2014 UFT contract, the DOE and UFT established System-wide Standards and a process to resolve concerns regarding excessive paperwork. Successful UFT and DOE collaboration with the Paperwork Standards were the basis for expanding this process...
Teacher salary differentials application form
Salary differentials application form used by F/Z/O status and Adult Education teachers
High School Guidance Counselor Guide
Compiled by the Guidance Department of August Martin High School.
21 Reasons to Join the Retired Teachers Chapter
Thirteenth Edition. Includes the essential New Retiree Checklist.
DOE labor guidance for paperwork & operational issues
See the DOE's labor guidance regarding paperwork standards and operational issues, as well as steps in our contractual resolution/escalation process.
DOE Memo: Continuation of Extended Rights and Benefits for Military Leave
This memo, dated Dec. 13, 2002, details the Department of Education's policy regarding the city's Extended Military Benefits Package.
System-wide Paperwork Standards Appendix A 2023
I. General Standard. Educators and Related Service Providers shall not be required, whether on paper or electronically, to perform redundant, duplicative, unnecessary or unreasonable amounts of record keeping concerning the performance of, plans for...
System-wide Paperwork Standards 2023
General Standard. Educators and Related Service Providers shall not be required, whether on paper or electronically, to perform redundant, duplicative, unnecessary or unreasonable amounts of record keeping concerning the performance of, plans for or...
OP 160: Leave of Absence Without Pay
All pedagogical personnel may apply for a medical leave of absence without pay only when they have exhausted all of their Cumulative Absence Reserve (CAR) days. This application must be completed, signed and submitted to HR Connect for approval...
Agreement on restart and transformation schools
This is the memorandum of agreement reached in July 2011 between the UFT and the DOE concerning "persistently lowest achieving" schools that have been assigned to the restart and transformation models established by the federal goverment.
Article Fourteen — Rates of Pay and Working Conditions of Adult Education Teachers
Statement of Principles back to top The parties agree that their mutual objectives are to support the continuation and expansion of the Board's adult education programs and to regularize and stabilize the conditions of employment of employees in...
UFT Welfare Fund Health Plan Comparison Chart Wall Chart
Summary comparison of health plans for employees and those retirees not eligible for Medicare.
Annual DOE teacher shortage areas for additional compensation
Annual DOE list of teacher license area shortages which may qualify members licensed in these areas for additional compensation.
DOE Payroll Administration Memorandum No. 7 2025-2026 - Tax Changes
This DOE payroll memorandum details changes in tax amounts and withholdings for the upcoming calendar year.
Article Twelve — Transfers and Staffing
A. General Transfers Principals will advertise all vacancies. Interviews will be conducted by school-based human resources committees (made up of pedagogues and administration) with the final decision to be made by the principal. Vacancies are...
Resolving Paperwork & Operational Issues manual 10
Enforcing a process to reduce and eliminate time spent on paperwork and the process to resolve operational issues is a priority of the United Federation of Teachers. This manual will provide chapter leaders with information about the paperwork and...