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The New York City teachers' strike of 1968 was a months-long confrontation between the new community-controlled school board in the largely black Ocean Hill–Brownsville neighborhoods of Brooklyn and New York City's United Federation of Teachers. It began with a one day walkout in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district.
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools. As of 2005 [update] , there were about 118,000 in-service teachers and nearly 30,000 [ 2 ] paraprofessional educators in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members.
New York's lavish pay, pension and health care plans pushed for by powerful teachers' unions helped ramp up spending on school districts to a staggering $89 billion.
Shelton, Jon. "Dropping Dead: Teachers, the New York City Fiscal Crisis, and Austerity" in Shelton, Teacher Strike! Public Education and the Making of a New American Political Order (U of Illinois Press, 2017) pp 114–142. Taft, Philip. United they teach; the story of the United Federation of Teachers (1974) online; Taylor, Clarence.
United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew spoke out against a proposed casino in TImes Square. Brigitte Stelzer A rendering of the Times Square casino funded by SL Green/Caesars ...
The statewide average of spending per student came to an eye-popping $36,293, a 21% increase since the 2020-21 school year, the report by the budget watchdog group found.
Weusi was one of the founding members of African-American Teachers Association in the late 60s. It was an organization that was formed outside of the United Federation of Teachers. The African-American Teachers Association was organized to deal with the quality and issues of education in regards to Black and Hispanic youth in New York City. [14]
On April 15, 2010, the United Federation of Teachers, Mulgrew, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced an agreement to close temporary reassignment centers (TRCs), also known as "rubber rooms," where the Department of Education sent teachers and other employees who were being investigated or going through a hearing process. However, the ...