NYSUT Member Briefing - July 9, 2021
CDC issues new K-12 guidelines for the fall
NYSUT Member Briefing - June 25, 2021
Thank you to our members!
This year, NYSUT members overcame obstacles they had never faced before. Your sisters and brothers in the statewide union applaud you for working together to stand up to the challenge of COVID-19. In this video, we thank you for rising above and beyond!
How to Be Pregnant at EGCSD
Questions and answers from a Maternity Leave Seminar Sponsored by the EGTA in October 2014.
Pulse of The People
by Gregg Weinlein Published on March 9, 2012 The Record
Parents, legislators, and even student advocates continue to articulate the serious of bullying and the toll this activity takes on children and teens. Some advocates suggest that incidents of cyberbullying should be dealt with as criminal behavior similar to charges such as harassment and stalking. I couldn’t agree more. Too often teens flip off the word “bully” as childish knowing that assailants today are much more vicious than the playground bullies of the previous century. Teenagers today must fend off the silent assassins of the digital age who operate with phones and tablets and plant emotional land mines in social networking sites. The harassment and text assaults perpetrated by some teenagers should have a more criminal connotation then what is too often associated with the word bullying.
follow the link for the entire story : troyrecord.com/articles/2012/03/09/opinion/doc4f58e4ee60292697578518.txt
We Need Action!
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NYSUT suspends work with SED, blasts Board of Regents for "breach of faith."
Regents' approval of flawed evaluation regulations was clearly a breach of "good faith" collaboration -- and President Dick Iannuzzi announced, effective immediately, that NYSUT is suspending collaboration with SED for the rest of the academic school year, including participation and co-sponsorship of SED's June 13-14 district/union collaboration conference at Cornell, as the union weighs legal options.
The state Board of Regents adopted regulations that ignore the recommendations of the Regents' own task force; ignore best practice documented by nationally recognized researchers; and contradict the state's recently passed law on teacher/principal evaluations. The regulatory changes are a breach of the agreement forged with NYSUT to develop a fair, comprehensive system of teacher evaluations.
NYSUT is exploring legal avenues to challenge the regulations, which were approved by the Regents in a 14-to-3 vote, with Regents Tilles, Rosa and Cashin commendably voting "no." Due to NYSUT's strategy that the law require the process for teacher evaluations to be negotiated locally through collective bargaining, we can continue to negotiate educationally sound evaluation procedures even as we challenge the Regents' action approving the option that could open the door to "double-counting" and other changes in the regulations. Here are talking points to use in messaging to members and to the community. We've also posted what others are saying, including education scholars and Regent Tilles condemning the action. NYSUT United comes out next week and will feature in-depth analysis.