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The United Federation of Teachers (UFT), led by Albert Shanker, demanded the teachers' reinstatement and accused the community-controlled school board of anti-semitism. At the start of the school year in September 1968, the UFT held a strike that shut down New York City's public schools for nearly two months, leaving a million students without ...
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools. As of 2005, 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. In October 2007, 28,280 home day care providers voted to join ...
Due in part to media attention on the subject including the release of Waiting for "Superman" earlier in the year, as well as the recent settlement between the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and DoE, the film was released to three full audiences on April 16, 2010, with largely positive reactions from the audience and critics in attendance. [8]
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 ...
Despite a battle royale with the National Education Association (NEA), an infusion of cash by the AFT and the AFL–CIO enabled the UFT to win the December 16, 1961, election with 61.8 percent of the votes. In 1967, the New York state legislature passed the Taylor Law, which provided collective bargaining rights to public employees. Both the ...
The DOE said it would no longer consider new applications for extensions to seven-year commencement permits, unless companies prove they have physically started construction on an LNG export ...
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected Congress' bipartisan plan that would have temporarily funded the government and dodged a serious shutdown that could begin on Friday night. But ...
Freedom of Choice, or Free transfer plan, was the name for a number of plans developed in the United States during 1965–1970, aimed at the integration of schools in states that had a segregated educational system.