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Q&A on Excessing

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...

Guide to Salary Steps and Salary Differentials

This guide explains how teachers can apply for salary step placement and differentials, and provides salary differential information for school social workers, school psychologists, guidance counselors and laboratory specialists.

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...

Teacher salary differentials application form

Salary differentials application form used by F/Z/O status and Adult Education teachers

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...

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.

2025-2026 Labor Guidance: Paperwork Standards and Operational Issues

Operational Issues are defined as issues relating to: (1) the Paperwork Standards, (2) the provision of curricula as set forth in the UFT Collective Bargaining Agreement (“UFT CBA”), (3) professional development as required by the UFT CBA, (4) basic...

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...

How to Read a Seniority List

Your school’s seniority list tells you how much seniority you have and where you stand in terms of excessing seniority compared to your colleagues who have the same license as you. Excessing seniority, otherwise known as citywide seniority, is the...

FAQ for UFT members employed in the DOE’s Division of Early Childhood Education

FAQ for UFT members employed in the DOE’s Division of Early Childhood Education

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...

UFT Welfare Fund Health Plan Comparison Chart Wall Chart

Summary comparison of health plans for employees and those retirees not eligible for Medicare.

Report of the UFT Task Force on High Stakes Testing

In a series of public forums on high stakes testing this task force held throughout the city in December 2006 and January 2007, teachers, parents, students, elected officials and others with a stake in public education spoke out about the adverse...

School Counselors Chapter Newsletter - June 2023

Information about the tentative contract agreement, excessing, school-based options, performance reviews and the 20th annual UFT School Counselors Conference.

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.

School Counselors Chapter Newsletter - May 2025

Information about IPRs, excessing, performance reviews and probation extensions.