Thanks to the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL), as citizens we all have the right to government records. Meaning the public has the ability to obtain a wide range of information and data including our public schools. For example, did you know you can order the personnel file for a school principal… Read More
Please find the web version of this guidebook by going here. Read More
The Open Market Transfer System (OMT) opens on Thursday, April 13th @ 9:00 AM. Until then, if you want to get a head start on job openings please send us an email to solidaritycaucus@gmail.com or send a message to us (make sure you share with us your email). We will… Read More
Happy New Year! We hope that 2017 brings you much happiness, hope, and health. Unfortunately, it will not be an easy year for public education locally, state-wide, or nationally. The emphasis on testing continues, teacher autonomy continues to be reduced, while paperwork and mandates increase. All this while we sometimes… Read More
It goes by many different names: the ineligible list, red flag, notation, codes, problem code, a block. These are all strategies the Department of Education’s Office of Personnel Investigations (OPI) uses to control who is “active” or “inactive” in the DOE. Because of the DOE’s centralized bureaucracy and computer system,… Read More
UFT Members Name Administrators in Need of Improvement (ANOI) by Eric S. India’s first woman prime minister, Indira Gandhi, was fond of saying that “there are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is… Read More
UPDATE, 9:50PM 6/8/16: Here’s “I’ve Been Discontinued, Now What?” Read and share with everyone you know. The UFT Solidarity Member Support Committee is happy to announce an article series on dealing with and fighting discontinuance, 3020a, harassment, and more. Keep your eyes peeled for the first article, “I’ve been discontinued…now… Read More
This is Part 1 in our series of UFT Unity watering down member support initiatives. UFT Solidarity and it’s sister organization, Don’t Tread on Educators (DTOE) have always placed the needs and concerns of employed probationary teachers and terminated probationary teachers (those who are discontinued from probationary service) at the… Read More
Over the past few months, members of our caucus have been busy with leaving our campaign materials in the mailboxes of UFT members including teachers, secretaries, and paras. There are many schools we still need to reach! If your school has not received UFT Solidarity flyers in your mailboxes yet and… Read More
