http://www.nysut.org Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:43:50 EST Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:43:50 EST 60 en-us http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/mediareleases_13863.htm With enrollment booming at community colleges and SUNY and CUNY campuses, further budget cuts would devastate middle-class and low-income students, who increasingly see public higher education as the only affordable path to a college degree and a brighter future.

]]> 50487332C4A249F8812CE8D35CB4DD6B Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:31:37 EST http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/mediareleases_13860.htm New York State United Teachers today called on the state Senate to pass "socially conscious" legislation when it returns to Albany next week.

]]> 1A91AD450B324C9B8BF620814EFBD2B8 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:02:54 EST http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/mediareleases_13822.htm New York State United Teachers today congratulated Bill Owens on his come-from-behind victory in the 23rd District congressional race, saying his historic election represents a triumph of the concerns of working people over the ideology of the extreme right.

]]> 9DDB875B0A434C178D501A79C08A8C7D Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:14:21 EST http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/mediareleases_13722.htm The union calls on the Legislature to reject damaging cuts to public schools and colleges and to instead tap the state's rainy day fund and pursue other cost-savings and efficiencies. WITH AUDIO.

]]> DBF3E397972049B3B69ADBC6A12247DD Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:22:58 EST http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/mediareleases_13676.htm A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of three NYSUT members employed by the Stony Brook University Medical Center seeking to block a mandate by the state Health Department that health workers be inoculated against seasonal influenza and this year's H1N1 virus.

]]> 14650C30F171412796C5A03F3DF0F04B Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:11:06 EST http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/mediareleases_13674.htm NYSUT calls on the Legislature to reject the governor's proposed $686 million midyear cut in school aid and devastating cuts to public colleges, saying axing additional money from already lean education budgets – with classes well under way - would disrupt teaching and learning and irreparably harm student achievement, especially for those students caught in the achievement gap.

]]> 1785CD6DDD4048C2A3C792FA54E1D65B Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:59:18 EST http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/mediareleases_13671.htm Participating teachers were selected from a pool of high school and middle school educators who, over the last two summers, have taken part in a NYSUT-sponsored program on strategies to prepare students to enter the high-tech workforce.

]]> B040B403319B4288ABD1D88CDABCEE6B Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:13:08 EST http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/mediareleases_13665.htm NYSUT promotes "Reverse Trick-or-Treating" to highlight social justice, child labor abuses

]]> 5BDEF8A1852E4601B3978B21809A843D Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:56:22 EST http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/mediareleases_13618.htm In a collaborative partnership with school districts and local teachers' unions in Albany, Hastings, Marlboro, Plattsburgh and Poughkeepsie, NYSUT will create meaningful teacher evaluation systems that improve teacher effectiveness and increase student learning under a grant awarded today by the American Federation of Teachers' Innovation Fund.

]]> F8CCED20C2A34334B7D9DFC5FEA5F1A5 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:06:45 EST http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/mediareleases_13599.htm After a successful convention last April, NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi says the union is "thrilled to be coming back and contributing to the resurgence of Buffalo and Western New York" in 2012.

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