You must file your salary differential via the salary application portal. Please consult the DOE guide below for deadlines for filing the salary differential application: When using ASPDP courses to ...

Thousands of special education students in New York City public schools this school year are still without the services they are legally entitled to because of massive shortages of paraprofessionals, ...

As of Sept. 28, 2022, the state Education Department created a new Students with Disabilities (All Grades) certificate that permits teachers to teach students with disabilities in pre-K through Grade ...

The New York City Association of Foreign Language Teachers/UFT’s annual spring professional development conference attracted 75 educators to UFT headquarters in Manhattan for the group’s second ...

We’re at the midpoint of the two-year phase-in of the city’s new reading programs for elementary schools. Given the city’s diverse student population, the most pressing issue for educators has been ...

Lady Liberty centerpieces decorated the tables in Shanker Hall on May 15 as 300 guests, including members and loved ones, gathered for the UFT Academic High Schools Awards. The evening was framed by ...

When Chapter Leader Debbie Strack Cregan returned to work at PS 69 in Jackson Heights, Queens, in the spring of 2023 following medical leave for knee replacement surgery, she didn’t recognize her ...

As any seasoned teacher will tell you, it’s important to start the school year off on a good note. Along with essentials like reviewing classroom rules and units of study, icebreakers play a key role ...

“We’re the protectors of our students’ hopes and dreams,” UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the more than 1,100 members at the union’s Spring Education Conference at the New York Hilton Midtown on ...

Pedagogical employees may donate CAR days to another employee only if the recipient has a catastrophic sickness. The recipient does not have to be a pedagogical employee and may belong to a different ...

See summer payroll dates for pedagogues, paraprofessionals, substitute paraprofessionals and members working in the Chapter 683 special education summer program.

The DOE provides eligible paraprofessionals with a 40-day paid leave of absence to complete student teaching requirements if paraprofessionals are enrolled in a program to earn credentials to become ...