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2.5% raises take effect May 14
The salaries of UFT-represented city Department of Education employees will increase by 2.5% effective May 14, 2020.
Florida Center’s Day at the University
The Retired Teachers Chapter and the UFT Welfare Fund are proud to present an in-person series of educational, thought-provoking and entertaining lectures as part of the UFT Florida Center’s Day at the University. Please join us for one or all of...
Article One — Union Recognition
The Board recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining representative for a unit of all those employed in the titles of Laboratory Specialist and Laboratory Technician, including regular substitutes, full-term per diem substitutes, other-than...
Special education gets the shaft
UFT President Michael Mulgrew is calling on the city to fill vacant school-related professional positions in order to fulfill the special education requirements of at least 9,000 students across the city.
Chancellor's Regulation A-670 re school trips
Chancellor's Regulation A-670 re school trips
Article Four — Health Insurance, Pensions and Other Benefits
A. Choice of Health Plans Effective September 1, 2005 the Board will continue to provide for each employee covered by this Agreement who regularly works twenty (20) hours or more a week during the ten (10) month work year of September through June...
NYCE PPO Summary of benefits and coverage
NYCE PPO Summary of benefits and coverage
Article Six — Hours and Work Year
A. Schedule of Hours The daily schedule of hours for attendance teachers shall be from 8:30 a.m. to 3:40 p.m., including a lunch period of 30 minutes, except as otherwise provided in Article Seven A (Special Assignments). Effective February 2006...
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...
Aubrey Lees, hearing officer
As a hearing officer for the city's Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, Aubrey Lee adjudicates cases involving summonses issued by the city’s regulatory agencies. "I can’t imagine what this job would be like without a union," she says.
Job Opportunities
The UFT’s guide to job opportunities for teaching and other positions within the New York City public school system.
Joint Intentions and Commitments
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...
Special Education Rules, Regulations and Resources Presentation Deck
Special Education Rules, Regulations and Resources Presentation Deck
Ensuring an Effective School Governance Framework: Feb. 2009
The proposals crafted here try to maintain what has worked – a very direct tie between the DOE and mayor — and at the same time correct what has not worked, by ensuring checks and balances throughout the school system.
School Counselors Chapter Newsletter - September 2024
Information about the 2024-25 school year workday for related service providers, repurposed time, summer school evaluations and assigned roles in Galaxy.
Union fights outsourcing of therapy work in schools
The UFT is pushing back against the DOE's use of part-time therapists from private agencies rather than operationalizing the ninth session negotiated in the 2023 DOE-UFT contract to enable full-time therapists to do this work.
Membership Application (all DOE titles except paraprofessionals)
UFT membership application for all DOE titles except paraprofessionals. Print, complete and submit this application form only if you are not able to use the UFT's online enrollment form.
What are the responsibilities of being a mentor to a new teacher?
Mentors are experienced classroom teachers, instructional coaches or lead teachers who have been trained extensively in ways to best support new teachers (including doing demonstration lessons, co-teaching, offering suggestions about classroom...
Hearing Officers Chapter election results
On March 3, the ballots were counted in the special chapter election to create five new borough coordinator positions for the Hearing Officers Chapter. By an overwhelming majority, 97 percent of those who voted approved the new positions. Members...
Article Three — Salaries And Benefits
A. Salaries and Differentials The salaries and differentials of employees serving in non-extended time schools covered by this agreement, and the eligibility requirements therefor, shall be as follows: All regularly appointed school secretaries will...
Article Nine —Sick Leave and Annual Leave
A. Annual Leave Nurses and therapists (full-time and part-time) shall no longer accrue or be permitted to use annual leave time starting September 1, 2005, except as authorized below. All annual leave accruals to the credit of nurses and therapists...
Retiree Toolkit: Turning 65/Applying for Medicare
Booklet about applying for Medicare once a member turns 65
SESIS grievance form
If you have performed SESIS-related activities at home because you have been directed to do so, you can file a grievance within thirty (30) school days from the time you were instructed to perform the activity.