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Transit Benefit Program Enrollment Form
Save more than $200 each year in taxes by participating in the city’s TransitChek program.
Step Therapy Brochure
C-3.3: Limited Release of Health Information (HIPAA)
This form allows health care providers who have treated your previous injuries to release information to your employer’s workers’ compensation insurer.
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.
Special Education Services as Part of a Unified Service Delivery System
The Continuum of Services for Students with Disabilities
A Parent’s Guide to Special Education Services for School Age Children
You know your child best. Your ideas, opinions and input are very important in mapping out the best possible education for him or her. Every child with a disability has the right to what is called a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). This...
Personnel Memorandum #19, 1999-2000: Requirements for Salary Differentials for School Secretaries
School secretaries who believe they may be eligible for either or both salary differentials in accordance with the requirements listed below should file immediately upon attaining eligibility in order to receive payment, if approved, on the earliest...
Occasional Per Diem Secretary's Handbook
The work you do as an occasional per diem substitute secretary is very important to students, faculty and colleagues. But despite the key role you play, you might find the process of actually getting a job to be complicated and often frustrating. Don...
Special Education Services as Part of a Unified Service Delivery System
(The Continuum of Services for Students with Disabilities)
Passion and Promise video: PS 204, Brooklyn
What is the secret ingredient to success at PS 204 in Bensonhurst and so many other NYC public schools? Watch their video and find out!Teacher leaders at MS 228 in the Bronx
At MS 228 in the Bronx, teacher leaders work as "thought partners" with the school's administration.The PROSE Program in Action at International HS at LaGuardia
Educators at International HS have used the PROSE program to create a distributed leadership model of "shared governance."Student stories of immigration
At a time when immigrants are coming under attack from Washington, D.C., New York City public schools such as Brooklyn International HS are giving immigrant students the tools and support they need to learn and grow. In “Puzzle Bridge,” the high...The Land of Speech Believe
Speech therapists, educators and special needs students at P373 @ PS 58 in Staten Island created this fairy tale-themed video showcasing how students communicate, regardless of their differences, and featuring a bonus segment of a student finding her...Special Circular #6R, 1997-1998: Elimination of Administrative Duties
Procedures for implementation of the provision of the agreement covering teachers regarding the "elimination of administrative duties and provision of professional activity options" for 1998-1999.
Special Circular #31, 1976-1977: Duties of School Secretaries
Duties of school secretaries and appropriate clerical duties of non-pedagogical personnel.
DOE Memo: Program Preference for Special Education Teacher Support Services (SETSS) and Collaborative Team Teaching
This memo, dated May 14, 2003, includes sample special education postings for SETSS and CTT assignments.
4 schools put the “green” back in Greenpoint
After decades of leaking oil from ExxonMobil operations polluted the land and water of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, four schools, PS 31, PS 34, PS 110 and MS 126, partnered with the National Wildlife Federation to launch the Greenpoint Eco-Schools Project...Attendance Procedures
Teachers were once required to punch in and out with a time clock, but the UFT was able to eliminate of that hold-over of factory-model teaching in the 1990s. Today, the principal must consult with the UFT chapter committee and establish alternate...
Bereavement
An absence due to a death in your immediate family is classified as a "non-attendance day," -- you receive full pay and it is not deducted from your Cumulative Absence Record (CAR). If your parent, child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, spouse or...