New York Teacher

Highlights from the Oct. 1 issue of New York Teacher:

The UFT filed grievances on Sept. 24 involving 6,749 classes citywide that exceeded the contractual limits on class size.

The UFT joined education, labor, parent and community groups at a Sept. 23 rally on the City Hall steps to try to head off midyear cuts to schools.

Key UFT-endorsed candidates came out on top in this year’s Democratic Party Primary election, and it was UFT members who made the difference.

Educators and parents worked too hard to improve the new school governance law to now see it delayed or not properly implemented, the UFT testified at a City Council Education Committee hearing.

Teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool attended job fairs across the city in September in hopes of filling one of the 1,100 vacancies still open as the school year moves into its second month.

The first Delegate Assembly of the new term was the biggest in years, with hundreds of new chapter leaders and delegates attending and the overflow crowd watching the proceedings from closed-circuit monitors outside the union hall.

Work spearheaded by the UFT two years ago culminated with the creation of four new “demonstration site” schools that aim to model innovative practices in career and technical education.

UFT’s Dial-A-Teacher program has helped kids and parents get help with homework for nearly three decades.

Can it be that the time has come for the voice of the classroom teacher to be heard in the land?

Tagged: ATR, budget cuts, demonstrations, endorsements, grievances, mayoral control, Michael Mulgrew

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