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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 contract passed with nearly 75% of more than 95,700 votes, according to a tally by the American Arbitration Association. “Our teachers and school staff work day in and day out to provide a ...
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 ...
New York City, in recent years, closed many of its large middle and high schools in favor of smaller schools, offering up space to charter schools. [3] The ATR teacher program developed from the 2005 contract between New York City and the United Federation of Teachers which eliminated seniority rights. [4]
The move by New York City Comptroller Brad Lander effectively strips DOE of its ability to bypass his office's review of contracts valued at less than $1.5 million for minority and female business ...
A recently passed state law to shrink class sizes in New York City could cost at least $1.6 billion each year to employ an additional 17,700 teachers, according to an analysis by the Independent ...
1969: 450,000 teachers were covered by 1,019 collective bargaining agreements. The NEA accounted for 90 percent of the contracts and 61 percent of the teachers. [64] 1972: The New York State Teachers Association quit the NEA and merged with the AFT. [65] 1970s: State affiliates become powerful lobbyists. [66]
The Council of School Supervisors & Administrators (CSA) is a New York City based collective bargaining unit for principals, assistant principals, supervisors and education administrators who work in the New York City public schools and directors and assistant directors who work in city-funded day care. It was founded in 1962 as the Council of ...