June 18, 2003

On the Cover

• Miss America exposes Wal-Mart
  
• Union Work
  
• TRS: Getting the pension credit our members deserve
  
• Gatto named Teacher of the Year
  
• NYSUT makes plans for a busy summer
  
• SED seeks special ed teacher input
  
• Solidarity briefs
  
• Unions fighting to protect overtime rights
  
• Retired phys ed teacher trained the original Navy SEALs
  
• A record-setting vote for the future
  
• Team NYSUT is in the race
  
• Rochester union program to provide NCLB tutoring
  
• Rigney co-chairs retiree group
  
• NYSUT publications win top honors
  
• President's Perspective
  
• Stop the Medicare prescription drug plan steamroller
  
• Poll finds overwhelming support for public ed
  
• A better way to staff hospital pharmacies
  
• Examining education angle on nurse shortage
  
• BOCES leader gets special recognition
  
• Newburgh TA demands answers after savage attack
  
• Mentors ease first-time teaching jitters
  
• Teachers calculate problems with grade 8 math test
  
• Medicine men mentor nursing students
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Proposed state regs could jeopardize jobs of veteran educational interpreters
  
• Savor a great summer! Watch Web site for NYSUT updates
  
• Freebies
  
• A test of values
  
• Corning project in doubt
  
• Local unions strive for unity to achieve contracts
  
• Unionists carry message to Albany
  
• Chemical society to hold workshop
  
• Ovarian cancer walks slated for September
  
• Budget 101: A timely lesson
  

June 4, 2003

On the Cover

• Wallkill TA dials up budget support
  
• UFT fights for reinstatement of paraprofessionals
  
• TRS: How much do you know about death benefits?
  
• Test scores show progress, causes for concern
  
• Survey helps district examine student problems
  
• Enrollment swells at union-aided school
  
• Districts crunch numbers in override aftermath
  
• Restoration offers Rockland CC some reprieve
  
• NYS library sponsors summer reading program
  
• President's Perspective: Time for a moratorium on new charters
  
• POINT OF VIEW: 'What's wrong with him?'
  
• Teachers eye relativity of physics exams
  
• Making better schools in Nicaragua
  
• A glimpse of the lives of Mexican factory workers
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• How kids learn best
  
• Taking the long view of campus security
  
• Education nestles in the nurse's office
  
• Where the classroom intersects with the bioterrorism threat
  
• Retired math teacher is co-owner of Funny Cide
  
• Freebies
  
• Union calls for charter moratorium
  
• Save these dates to make strides against breast cancer
  
• Artists and teachers work together for NYC students
  

May 21, 2003

On the Cover

• A woman's place is in her union
  
• Wilson TA does good deeds on the home front
  
• SUNY prof, math teacher team up to multiply 'yes' votes
  
• Union Work
  
• TRS: Questions about death, taxes and early retirement incentives
  
• Union program helps teaching assistants
  
• SRP sisters show support for public education
  
• Union promotes June 3 voting
  
• Retirees turn out, roar for public ed
  
• Retired teacher is Ms. Puerto Rico Senior America
  
• PS21 coalition launches print ad campaign
  
• President's Perspective: Our legislators did the right thing
  
• POINT OF VIEW: A poet crunches data
  
• NYSUT receives education award
  
• NYC spotlight: Spring Education Conference
  
• Advocating for a healthier NY
  
• Sayville nurtures emerging leaders
  
• Mentor program aid
  
• McCall co-chairs Higher Education Conference Board
  
• Support for education funding shines through
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Community outreach links leaders in union's Local Action Project
  
• Labor center disseminates teacher resources
  
• Screen scene means violence and obesity
  
• Activists seek equity for treatment of the mind
  
• Freebies
  
• Union is community lifeblood
  
• Ruling halts Corning building plan
  
• Bush's war at home
  
• Regents stall LI charter school
  
• Blazing a path to citizenship
  
• Taking the high road to school-funding equity
  
• Deadline arises for uncertified teachers
  
• Historic override is great news for public ed and health care
  

May 7, 2003

On the Cover

• Remembering colleagues who died on the job
  
• How to talk with children about war
  
• TRS: What is the formula for Final Average Salary?
  
• Legislative budget restores school aid
  
• Union helps paras reach new certification standards
  
• New York special ed rate remains above average
  
• Al Shanker inducted into labor hall of fame
  
• Legislature overrides governor to postpone school budget vote
  
• Sneak attack takes 56 jobs at Rockland CC
  
• NYS retiree alliance receives national charter
  
• Regents analyze need for academic 'safety net'
  
• President's Perspective: We brought thunder to Albany
  
• Secretaries get update on bad-news budget
  
• NYSUT, UFT call for action at middle level
  
• Making the May 3 march magnificent
  
• Vast coalition ensured march's success
  
• Record-setting rally rocks Albany
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Call for inservice presenters
  
• State clarifies IEP access rules
  
• High anxiety about higher education cuts
  
• Colleague needs bone marrow transplant
  
• Tearing up prescriptions for health care disaster
  
• Workers' perspective voiced for health care
  
• Long trek for farmworkers
  
• BOCES activists seek legislative support
  

April 23, 2003

On the Cover

• On April 28, remember workers killed on the job
  
• RA honors Wood
  
• Volunteers live the golden rule
  
• Retiree helps United Way
  
• Union grows - so does efficiency of service
  
• Teacher of the Year lives American dream
  
• Delegates: 'Let's go, Orange!'
  
• Sweeney: Energize and organize
  
• Shriver gets Shanker award
  
• Lessons can make a difference
  
• Searles soars to head of the class
  
• Schumer thanks union
  
• Schalmont fights for teacher center
  
• College targets all untenured faculty
  
• Retiree power potential grows
  
• Delegates underline NYSUT priorities, develop strategies to restore state aid in governor's budget
  
• Prepping presidents for fiscal crises
  
• Unions collaborate to organize college staff
  
• Mills makes spirited defense of academic upgrades for all
  
• Hearing on mid-level education
  
• McElroy: Unions built for tough times
  
• 'My school really needs help'
  
• Upstate and down, these cuts hurt students
  
• Lubin calls for all to march on May 3
  
• Fugle, Matousek receive outstanding leadership award
  
• Kerry makes case for expansion of pre-kindergarten
  
• UFTer always believed in unions for working people
  
• NYSUT honors the best writing, layout in union newsletters
  
• Jordan: Schools need holistic approach
  
• Hughes: Stay the union course
  
• Hobart calls on members to champion children, carry union message
  
• Feldman: Public schools keep democracy strong
  
• Yonkers leader helped NYSUT gel
  
• Dunn calls for charter school moratorium
  
• Don't Fail Us Now: 20,000 education jobs are in jeopardy
  
• Sudden collapse, amazing rescue
  
• Dean touts his education record as Vermont governor
  
• Urgent postcards for CUNY
  
• Aide inspires confidence, smiles
  
• Citing union successes, Cortese says: Kids need our support now
  
• RA nominates Corn for re-election
  
• Sen. Clinton scorns administration's agenda against public schools
  
• Three new members elected: Delegates honor retiring Board members
  
• Raising AIDS awareness
  
• AFT requires local unions to file audits every two years
  
• Television ads proudly carry the union label
  

April 9, 2003

On the Cover

• Union workshops target curriculum areas
  
• A woman's place is in her union
  
• Union members support organizing at Wal-Mart
  
• VESID smooths teacher's path to the classroom
  
• Union puts answers a call away
  
• Making history
  
• War heightens vaccination program awareness
  
• President's Perspective: Time to talk a little truth about unions
  
• Diary of a rookie grass-roots lobbyist
  
• A senatorial 'show and tell'
  
• 'Why I'm marching May 3'
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Faculty union activists take to the streets
  
• Freebies
  
• Tough questions addressed at civil rights training
  
• Regents delay LI charter school expansion
  
• Union keeps pressure on - 19,000 and counting
  
• UFT delegation is strong voice on NYSUT Board
  

March 26, 2003

On the Cover

• A woman's place is in her union
  
• The united way
  
• Why we do not seek retroactive benefits
  
• It's all about training
  
• Mills sticks up for teaching assistants
  
• A massive day of teaching
  
• Proud to showcase good teaching
  
• Newark Valley local pushes for traffic safety
  
• Unionists unite against threat to labor laws
  
• Trauma detection training begins this week
  
• Preparing to make NYSUT policy at RA
  
• President's Perspective: Our message resonates in the Well
  
• Point of View: Whose standards are they? It's time to answer
  
• Newark Valley local pushes for traffic safety
  
• Staffing bill introduced
  
• Noteworthy
  
• Certification assistance a boon to new members
  
• May 3 march sparks a run on buses
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Activists fast for justice for farm workers
  
• 'I think it will fly, Orville'
  
• Faculty union steps up community activism
  
• Freebies
  
• Grow a tree in the schoolyard
  
• SUNY Cortland joins coalition
  
• Coalition opposes Pataki's proposed budget slashes
  
• Pearls teach valuable lessons in character in Sidney schools
  
• Certification narrowness discourages candidates
  
• College cuts spell institutionalized chaos
  
• 'These cuts just cannot stand'
  
• Music returns to Broadway
  
• Ads amplify union message
  

March 12, 2003

On the Cover

• YOUR UNION MENTOR
  
• A woman's place is in her union
  
• Will there be another 55/25 retirement incentive?
  
• Teachers find their way home
  
• Focusing on best practice
  
• Airline legislation would hamstring workers
  
• March 330 miles for farm-worker justice
  
• Footlights shine on Syracuse
  
• Fiscal talk with Hevesi
  
• The brain's role in behavior
  
• President's Perspective: Call to action on the education budget
  
• POINT OF VIEW: The state of Woebegone
  
• Physics program tied to standards
  
• Getting organized at Syracuse academy
  
• Nursing paradox vexes CC leaders
  
• Draft policy looks at middle school structure
  
• Massive march set for May 3
  
• Lessons in listening
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Legislators hear higher education activists
  
• Classroom health is nothing to sneeze at
  
• Freebies
  
• State rolls out new tests to delineate ESL profiles
  
• English teachers gather in NYC
  
• Making connections
  
• Character ed conference set for March 25-26
  
• Caucus argues for budget justice
  
• 'Unthinkable cuts, dire consequences'
  
• Union and district help teacher cope with ALS
  

February 26, 2003

On the Cover

• Benefit enhancement law helps members of all tiers
  
• Conference illuminates standards
  
• School Related Professionals: Looking into nuances of school security
  
• State postpones social studies retesting
  
• Federal dollars fund slick TV ads to push charter school 'choice'
  
• President's Perspective: Fasting to replace greed with justice
  
• Organizing: More workers look to NYSUT's strength
  
• Educators build (Brooklyn) bridge to lawmakers
  
• Intensive care
  
• Save the date: May 3
  
• Bills target mandatory OT for nurses
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Fast focuses on injustice
  
• You do the math on IEP access
  
• Threatened EPIC prescription program is a boon to seniors
  
• Take a step beyond Judge Judy
  
• A closer look at 'Plan Colombia'
  
• Commissioner joins union in budget fight
  
• Higher education solutions sought
  
• Health care cuts are dangerous, union warns
  
• The Committee of 100 springs into action
  
• Union leaders blast a bad budget
  

February 12, 2003

On the Cover

• Union work
  
• UFT officials shout about state budget
  
• Questions about military service
  
• Standards conference set for March 6-7
  
• Special ed changes likely to decrease average test scores
  
• Solidarity news
  
• Union offers free help for family, elder care concerns
  
• New law eliminates retirement filing notice
  
• Military reservists need to know their rights
  
• President's Perspective: This devastating budget cannot stand
  
• NYC, Albany lawsuit pushes parental choice
  
• Noteworthy
  
• Number of low-performing schools drops
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Kinsella leads field, legal services
  
• Homework Hotline helping more kids
  
• Ironies abound in higher education cuts
  
• Solidarity rally boosts higher ed members
  
• Defusing a confrontation
  
• Freebies
  
• FOCUS ON E.R.S. - Help for tax-paying ERS members
  
• Point of View: A plan that would leave countless children behind
  
• Pataki plan guts health care, education at many levels
  
• In New York state, space studies must go on
  

January 29, 2003

On the Cover

• YOUR UNION MENTOR
  
• Helping to build a new kind of union
  
• Watervliet unions help fire victims
  
• Can I borrow from my retirement fund?
  
• No-sweat campuses
  
• SRP: Let the light of learning shine
  
• Solidarity briefs
  
• Retiree scholarship is 'professional' indeed
  
• Rainbow Project celebrates its first graduate
  
• President's Perspective: Unity important during budget fight
  
• Union offers ideas on controlling drug costs
  
• Union advocates for Perkins voc ed funds
  
• High school students get chance to 'serve' on City Council
  
• Noteworthy
  
• In memoriam
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Legislative committee leaders shuffled
  
• What you need to know about new IEP regulations
  
• A revolutionary way to learn living history
  
• Freebies
  
• Bake sales won't do it
  
• Special Meeting - Election District 23
  
• State's fiscal picture worsens
  
• ON THE BOARD: Stacey Caruso-Sharpe
  

January 15, 2003

On the Cover

• A woman's place is in the union
  
• Watertown local answers the bell for the needy
  
• UFT members join broadcasts on American history
  
• Digging deeper into the TRS e-mailbag
  
• No generation gap in this teaching family
  
• Assemblyman 'walked the walk'
  
• Would you like to evaluate a student in 12 pages?
  
• Pataki address warns of tough times ahead
  
• Spanish students 'catch on'
  
• Protecting staff who administer smallpox inoculations
  
• Plan would add four retiree seats to Board
  
• Coalition protects retiree benefits
  
• Regents call for $516 million state aid increase
  
• Psychologists gain scope-of-practice law
  
• President's Perspective: Kudos for climbing 'Mount Everest'
  
• Unearthing union history, and looking to the future
  
• NYSUT honored for its growth
  
• Nurses support student success
  
• Regs leave contract protections in place
  
• Teaching's 'gold standard'
  
• Carnegie foundation honors Mohawk Valley prof
  
• McAuliffe fellowship helps to bring students together
  
• Malverne takes aim at drug abuse
  
• Librarians cope with Internet filters
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Looking for info on insurer lawsuit
  
• History contest hones student research skills
  
• SUNY board fails to make budget pitch
  
• Seeking Health Care Professional of the Year
  
• Building NYSUT's capacity to serve
  
• Half Hollow Hills mourns strong union leader
  
• HIGHER ED: Setting the GOLD standard for college leaders
  
• Fulton TA honors a century of retirees
  
• Freebies
  
• Making tough choices
  
• FOCUS ON E.R.S. - New laws impact employees' retirement
  
• A young life saved by a school defibrillator
  
• A heartfelt gift
  
• Faculty wary of corporate influence on databases
  
• CUNY remediation restrictions extended
  
• Cyberspace charter rejected; 10 others OK'd
  
• CHANGE-NY closes
  
• ON THE BOARD: DeLutro and Conetta
  
• A quiz for Black History Month
  

December 4, 2002

On the Cover

• YOUR UNION MENTOR
  
• YOUR TRS PENSION: From death (benefits) to taxes: questions you shouldn't avoid
  
• SRP: Porter scholarships propel NYSUT members
  
• Union members to Wal-Mart: Respect workers
  
• Words of wisdom live on
  
• Continuing Al Shanker's legacy
  
• President's Perspective: Providing the information you need
  
• NYC children sing their hearts out
  
• Letter from miles away sparks hope
  
• Union salutes nationally certified teachers
  
• Taking locals in new directions
  
• Letter to the editor: Counselors collaborate on win-win career conference
  
• Data, standards drive inservice effort
  
• Concentrating all their faculties
  
• Defibrillator saves a life as law takes effect
  
• Union sues health-care provider on behalf of members
  

November 20, 2002

On the Cover

• Union work
  
• YOUR TRS PENSION: Can I name this cat as my pension beneficiary?
  
• Technology educators face another threat
  
• SRP: Knowing how to make a classroom come alive
  
• SOLIDARITY
  
• Former UFTer collects messages of hope and rebuilding for NYC
  
• NATURE'S LESSONS: Budding scientists grow with rooftop garden
  
• NATURE'S LESSONS: Science teacher explores new terrain replete with turtles, herons and muskrats
  
• President's Perspective: Time to batten down the hatches
  
• Veteran BOCES leader lauds activism as part of NYSUT
  
• PERB extends union representation right
  
• Gov. vetoes pension credit during child care leave
  
• Nurse-patient ratios affect patient mortality
  
• NYSUT welcomes new affiliates
  
• Nelson named NYSUT director of legislation
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Brooklyn beauty
  
• Watchdog group safeguards professionals' rights
  
• President prescribes more affordable medicine
  
• Freebies
  
• SUNY prof: Respect comes from knowledge
  
• Online charter school makes second bid
  
• Student-run cafe offers serendipity
  
• State debates ways to close budget deficit
  
• Union makes great strides in fighting breast cancer
  
• BOCES leaders address fiscal concerns
  
• NYSUT supports AFL-CIO day of action
  

November 6, 2002

On the Cover

• Make sure you vote on Nov. 5
  
• Veterans Day project flies high
  
• YOUR TRS PENSION: Straight talk on prior service
  
• SRP leaders prepare for new challenges
  
• Soldier's letters spur learning on Long Island
  
• Ties that bind at Rensselaer local union
  
• President's Perspective: Making Strides for a great cause
  
• Phone bank volunteers stoke political discourse
  
• Big Apple presence in the snowy Adirondacks
  
• Civic responsibility at a young age
  
• Face to face
  
• Channeling homework help to more kids
  
• Union consolidates efforts for health-care workers
  
• Teacher critiques state survey on ELA
  
• A place to learn
  
• Making strides in battle to beat breast cancer
  

October 23, 2002

On the Cover

• Grant to fund vague 'choice options'
  
• School-Related Professionals: Get the latest on Title I regulation changes
  
• A double play for Special Olympics
  
• Ailments persist at schools near WTC site
  
• Safety is top concern of union
  
• Union, district collaborate on the new Rome Free Academy
  
• POINT OF VIEW
  
• A union win for nurses in Burlington, Vermont
  
• NOTEWORTHY
  
• Welcome to a great profession
  
• New teachers get tips through union training
  
• In memoriam
  
• Turnaround in math
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Historical documents available for classes
  
• Funding for healthier schools is goal of senator and union
  
• Loan fund lends vibrancy to agencies, small businesses
  
• Border issues
  
• BRIEFS
  
• Teacher keeps young patients' minds healthy
  
• Seeking 'time-lapse' view of student progress
  

October 9, 2002

On the Cover

• Vote November 5
  
• VESID keeps educator's dreams on track
  
• NYSUT sets pace for United Way campaign
  
• UNION WORK
  
• SED Web curriculum project progresses
  
• 'Experts' give on-the-job training
  
• Solidarity: bursting with union pride
  
• Money diverted from Social Security fund
  
• Enhancing the role of retirees in the union
  
• President's Perspective: Perfect Storm budget crisis looms
  
• Squelched by blueberries
  
• Taking it from the streets
  
• The ribbon project
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Labor on the march
  
• Governor signs labor neutrality law
  
• Eyes on the pies
  
• Educators - save those receipts!
  
• Looking for top Internet educator
  
• Building better classroom practice for lasting school improvements
  
• Higher ed: seeking guarantees from next governor
  
• A look at the politics of government Web-site purging
  
• Goddard concentrates on the future of the union
  
• Freebies
  
• Fire department calls 911
  
• A COLA increase? The check's in the mail
  
• Join NYSUT in the fight against breast cancer
  
• Teaching and cancer
  

September 25, 2002

On the Cover

• YOUR UNION MENTOR
  
• Union, Yankees turn radio double play
  
• Union fights new push to divert public school funds
  
• New teachers - What you need to know about TRS
  
• State forbids 'drop-back-in' contract
  
• A cool breeze of learning blows through
  
• AFL-CIO: Pay laid-off WorldCom workers
  
• Curriculum spotlights heroes of American labor movement
  
• Do and Don't Buy updates
  
• Poll finds Americans more open to unions
  
• Live on the BBC: Hudson Valley union leader
  
• The creative touch that heals
  
• 'Wing of Heroes' takes flight at Northport High
  
• Firefighter/adjunct prof honored for bravery
  
• Students and educators are in the equation
  
• Advances please Roosevelt TA
  
• Rochester parade draws generations
  
• President's Perspective
  
• Lawsuit to curb drug monopolies
  
• Growing the union
  
• NYC local develops K-12 reading curriculum
  
• Law could make way for 'back-door vouchers'
  
• Patricia Damato remembers when tenure hung in the balance
  
• Institute covers role of media in democracy
  
• Average math scores rise
  
• Leadership lessons take hold in locals
  
• A meander down memory lane for retiring teacher
  
• Conference promises treats
  
• Feeling the earth move... sweetly
  
• Freebies
  
• A sense of security
  
• Former Chordette harmonized in the classroom
  
• WALK THE WALK: Support 'Making Strides Against Breast Cancer'
  
• Breast cancer makes Brewster SRP 'try new things'
  
• Survivors ask each other, 'How long?'
  
• Notice of vacancy: NYSUT At-Large Directors
  
• Walks for autism Sept. 28-29
  

September 11, 2002

On the Cover

• UNION WORK
  
• YOUR TRS PENSION: Union wins new laws to improve TRS pensions
  
• Competing in a special way
  
• Regents eye Special Act school funding change
  
• Tips for dealing with the 9-11 anniversary effect
  
• Psychologists say need for help remains strong
  
• PBS program helps students cope
  
• Every penny of NYSUT's 9-11 fund ($500,000 in all) has gone to those in need
  
• The lessons of 9-11
  
• New year brings fresh challenges
  
• Union seeks remedy for prescription drug costs
  
• Scrutinizing a tough physics test
  
• Fresh start for NYC teachers
  
• Nauman tapped for retirees alliance
  
• 'Hike-a-thon' supports mental health in New York schools
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Capitol gains: even in a tough year, several union-backed initiatives succeed
  
• In the courts
  
• Conference looks to strengthen teaching
  
• History education conference slated for Oct. 4-5
  
• Faculty union taps students for scholarships
  
• Freebies
  
• FOCUS ON E.R.S. - Keep up-to-date on benefits
  
• Fourth-grade ELA scores rise
  
• Union pact a good starting point for charter teachers
  
• A tale of two misguided charter schools
  
• SED revamps web site
  
• New York Teacher founder dies
  

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