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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...
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...
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
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.
Overworked, Underutilized
How the Department of Education’s Reorganizations of Special Education Turned School Psychologists from Mental Health Professionals into Paper Pushers. A report by Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, Nov. 2008.
School Counselors Chapter Newsletter - May 2025
Information about IPRs, excessing, performance reviews and probation extensions.
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 2024
Information about excessing, wage increases and bonuses, individual progress reports and school counselor evaluations.
Student Intervention and Discipline Code and Bill of Student Rights and Responsibilities - Grades 6-12
Included in this document is the Student Bill of Rights and Responsibilities which promotes responsible student behavior and an atmosphere of dignity and respect by establishing guidelines to help students as they strive to become productive citizens...
Chancellor's Regulation A-670 re school trips
Chancellor's Regulation A-670 re school trips
Know Your Rights
Below is an alphabetical list of member rights. Click on the topic to view an easy-to-follow explanation of that right with links to additional resources and/or contract language.
ATRs to fill regular positions in the fall of 2021
Members of the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR) who have positive ratings will fill regular assignments in September in schools where they are needed.
How do I change licenses? What are the consequences of doing so?
In order to change a license/appointment, you must have the certificate needed for the new appointment and a principal’s recommendation to fill a vacancy in the new area. Teachers who change their license/appointment area go back on probation for at...
Appendix N — Closing of Island and Horizon Academies
CLOSING OF ISLAND AND HORIZON ACADEMIES MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT Between THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK And UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, LOCAL 2, AFT, AFL-CIO This Memorandum of Agreement ("MOA")...
Article Twenty — Working Conditions of Per Diem Substitute
A. Applicability Per diem substitutes covered by this Agreement are: Full-term substitutes: serving after the fifteenth day of the school term for the duration of that term in a full-time or regularly scheduled part-time position. Other-than...
Reprieve for early childhood division
Thanks to the union’s advocacy, the city Department of Education has agreed to take the reorganization of the Division of Early Childhood Education (DECE) off the table for this school year.
Appendix I— Closing of Island and Horizon Academies
CLOSING OF ISLAND AND HORIZON ACADEMIES MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT Between THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK And UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, LOCAL 2, AFT, AFL-CIO This Memorandum of Agreement ("MOA")...
Appendix G — Closing of Island and Horizon Academies
CLOSING OF ISLAND AND HORIZON ACADEMIES MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT Between THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK And UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, LOCAL 2, AFT, AFL-CIO This Memorandum of Agreement ("MOA")...
Resolution on discontinuing use of DESSA
The DOE should not continue using the DESSA screener for all NYC DOE students and schools and should instead reallocate funding allotted to the implementation of the DESSA contract to providing social emotional interventions and support services to...
School Counselors Chapter Newsletter - June 2022
Information about the Open Market Transfer plan, excessing, professional evaluations for school counselors, protecting students' personally identifiable information, social-emotional learning screeners and the 19th annual School Counselors Conference...
Article Fourteen — Transfers
Effective school year 2005-2006, 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...
A summer of school funding protests
The UFT, together with parents and education advocacy groups, spent the summer keeping the pressure on Mayor Eric Adams to reverse $469 million in school budget cuts for the coming year. But to everyone’s dismay, the school year is starting with the...
Article Twelve — Transfers
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...
Article Twelve — Transfers
Transfers of attendance teachers from one district office, superintendency or organizational unit to another district office, superintendency or organizational unit will be granted on the following basis: A. General Transfers Principals, attendance...
Article Fourteen — Assignments, Transfers and Summer Work
A. Assignments The Memorandum of Agreement controlling the rights of employees regarding the 2007 reorganization of District 79 is contained in Appendix E. B. Transfers Effective school year 2005-2006, principals will advertise all vacancies...
Kudos to Melissa Wall, IS 109, Queens
The efforts of Chapter Leader Melissa Wall of IS 109 in Queens Village saved five teachers from being excessed — and preserved the school's already approved plan to reduce class sizes in its 6th-grade classes.