Summer 2005

On the Cover

June 9, 2005

On the Cover

• '853' staffers deserve labor rights, public pension
  
• Kudos for welfare-to-work effort
  
• Avoid Wal-Mart in back-to-school shopping
  
• Mark your calendar:Miles for Medals Walk and other upcoming events
  
• Teacher unearths Albany 's Underground Railroad
  
• Rochester TA's tutoring hailed
  
• Tell your lawmakers 55/25 bill will save money
  
• School secretary taps the experience around her
  
• Social Services: Get help to achieve balanced caregiving
  
• The nuts and bolts of leadership
  
• Prom night
  
• Rally protests Bush plan for privatization of Social Security
  
• President's perspective: It's time to reform the Taylor Law
  
• WNY political action
  
• NYSUT's nurses are in the know
  
• Union: It's time to fix No Child Left Behind law
  
• Activists watch Mexican union vote
  
• What exactly is NYSUT Member Benefits?
  
• Trying to make Medicare changes add up
  
• Letters to the Editor: 'Roots and Shoots' a valuable tool
  
• Iannuzzi, Neira receive Ellis Island Medal of Honor
  
• School may be out, but we're still here!
  
• Union grant lets class play the Bard card
  
• Freebies: Learning disabilities Web site
  
• Ruling is a win for drug consumers
  
• NYSUT roars support for contract
  
• Capital rendezvous
  
• Capital concerns
  
• BRIEFS: Tolerance awards
  
• Bingo! Here's a way to pin down your beach blanket
  

May 26, 2005

On the Cover

• Union presses for 55/25 retirement law
  
• Unions give time, effort & talent
  
• A grand adventure: Students give virtual tour of natural wonder
  
• Exchanging views
  
• UNION WORK
  
• Beleaguered NYC locals seek pacts
  
• TRS: How much do you know about death benefits?
  
• New York braces for decrease in Title I money
  
• SUNY Buffalo goes sweatfree
  
• NYSUT's effort pumps up turnout for school budgets
  
• Retiree group focuses on Social Security
  
• Panel sets phase-in schedule for required 65 grade
  
• Union salutes community stalwarts
  
• Higher ed is high priority
  
• President's Perspective: From academic freedom to Medicare
  
• POV: Vocational education: The need continues
  
• Union sponsors poster contest for worker safety
  
• The journey from courtroom to classroom
  
• Union nurses rally to end mandatory overtime and establish staffing ratios
  
• Noteworthy: Two NY winners of math and science awards
  
• Local leaders tap diverse skills of new members
  
• A slice of life at Moravia High
  
• Member Benefits: Keep your benefits with change of status
  
• Letters to the Editor: Today's classroom issues need attention
  
• Behind the stacks in the SUNY library system
  
• A rising tide of Grade 4, 8 scores
  
• Expert has telltale tips to watch for gangs
  
• Freebies: Brochure features famous stutterers
  
• EPA set to inspect K-12 schools
  
• Negotiating the path to fair contracts
  
• Making colleges heed safety regulations
  
• Court cuts CFE appeals time in half
  
• Westchester students respond to union trades day
  
• Making beautiful music together
  
• Teachers make a difference for African villagers
  

May 12, 2005

On the Cover

• Hospital eyes NYSUT program
  
• Union members seek votes for May 17
  
• Social Security truth comes calling
  
• TRS: Questions about part-time service, final average salary
  
• Listening Tour
  
• Thousands unite to save Social Security
  
• Social Services: Grief does not walk a straight line
  
• Gov signs law protecting retirees' health insurance
  
• Privatization battles raging in statehouses
  
• President's Perspective: Voting May 17 in everyone's best interest
  
• POV: International Child Support a boost for educators in Kenya
  
• Play carries education message
  
• Psychologists fight for continuity of care
  
• Public employee pensions under attack
  
• Nursing conference set for Albany
  
• Noteworthy
  
• Member Benefits: New benefit offered - Carnival Cruise Lines
  
• Letters to the Editor: VOTE-COPE clout
  
• Classroom coughing a cause for concern
  
• Higher ed at the fore
  
• Glamour on display
  
• Freebies: Recruiting teachers
  
• History teacher takes over NYSUT vice presidency
  
• From 'rock bottom,' lab tech thanks NYSUT for support
  
• Sign up for June character ed conference
  

April 28, 2005

On the Cover

• In memory of Minnie Wheeler
  
• NEA/NY delegates approve unification principles
  
• TRS: Educate me, please
  
• Tiger warns growing union could affect future RAs
  
• Spitzer says leadership lacking on education
  
• NYSUT offers strategies to save Social Security
  
• Silver: NYSUT members are Hobart's 'greatest tribute'
  
• NYSUT blows the whistle on investment firm
  
• Schumer revels in 'love affair' with teachers
  
• If not you, who? Vote May 17 on your school budget
  
• Taking a stand
  
• President's Perspective: Experiences that shaped who I am
  
• POV: Unionists stand up for Pledge of Allegiance
  
• Noteworthy
  
• Neira outlines vision for pre-K through post-grad
  
• Proceeds from play will benefit Mullany House in Troy
  
• A chilling reminder of perils of Mexican unionism
  
• Medicare center will answer questions for NYSUT retirees
  
• Lubin salutes members' political activity, approach
  
• Meeting colleagues, sharpening skills
  
• Letters to the Editor
  
• Stronger unions = stronger educators
  
• Trusted adviser pledged to the union
  
• A maven for union political action
  
• Union editors seize top honors in NYSUT contest
  
• Iannuzzi charts trends in member benefits
  
• New NYSUT president stresses solidarity
  
• RA celebrates the legacy of Mr. NYSUT
  
• Higher ed: the next years
  
• Hevesi seeks to reform district audit process
  
• Gov signs law protecting retirees' health insurance
  
• A registered nurse on a mission
  
• An enthusiastic, doughty champion
  
• Sandy Feldman receives NYSUT's highest honor
  
• RA delegates elect officers, board
  
• RA applauds Walter Dunn, NYSUT's 'gentle giant'
  
• Mechanicville sixth-grade teacher attacks each day with eagerness
  
• Cortese lauded for leadership, advocacy
  
• Applauding those who serve
  
• Shanker grants available for teachers to seek national certification
  
• State budget's a done deal
  
• Thanks, and best wishes to retiring board members
  
• 'Hardball and handshakes' documents labor in sport
  
• A quiet, tenacious champion
  
• He led the UFT strikes of the 1960s
  
• Unionists dig deep to fight AIDS epidemic
  

April 14, 2005

On the Cover

• Contemplating retirement
  
• TRS: Can I get pension credit for private school teaching?
  
• The average American loses under Bush privatization plan
  
• NYSUT launches 'Save Social Security' project
  
• The April RA is watershed event for the union
  
• Neira stresses role of psychologists
  
• President's Perspective: Paying tribute to the union I love
  
• POV: Importance of funding is not rocket science
  
• Pickets for change: Unions send message to the public
  
• Orchard Park bus drivers fight privatization
  
• Noteworthy
  
• Talking union with the next generation
  
• Member Benefits: Offer from banking/mortgage program
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Union advocates reasonable regs for IDEA
  
• Assembly approves health care protection act
  
• Samplers offered for test of English as a Second Language
  

March 31, 2005

On the Cover

• VOTE-COPE: 'Gov. Pataki, we have a problem'
  
• UNION MENTOR
  
• TRS: Why can't my SUNY work count toward my pension?
  
• Teacher of the Year is beacon at 'entry point'
  
• New council will focus on small locals
  
• State adopts changes to high school math
  
• President's Perspective: Social Security is the real deal
  
• POV: Because of BOCES, I went from truant ... to teacher
  
• Union program takes nurses back to school
  
• Noteworthy
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Regents salute Hobart 's integrity
  
• Health, safety advocates share audacious ideas
  
• SRPs succeed with health fair
  
• Calculating options for passing grades
  
• The Gates of education
  
• Freebies
  
• Where religion meets curriculum, science teachers tread lightly
  
• COMMITTEE OF 100: Grassroots lobbyists take on 'March madness'
  
• CFE releases ideas for statewide school aid fix
  
• Some good news for public education and health care in state budget
  
• State budget talks progress; deadline looms
  
• Books from the heart
  
• Activists see gains in BOCES funding trends
  
• The tale of a beard no longer feared
  

March 17, 2005

On the Cover

• Westchester food drive is a biggie
  
• CAPE crusaders fight to keep water safe, WalMart out
  
• UFT applies to open two charter schools
  
• Tsunami update
  
• Beware of TRS imitators: Don't provide personal info
  
• ELT offers online courses for paraprofessionals
  
• Seeking a better plan for special ed kids
  
• Retired Workers: What They Aren't Telling You
  
• Community service couple honored
  
• Report cards underline issue of resources
  
• College Recruiting
  
• President's Perspective: The benefits of union membership add up
  
• POV: Psychologist weighs in on childhood obesity
  
• PEF leaders prepare for leadership transition
  
• New locals find natural fit with NYSUT
  
• Member Benefits: Objective financial advice is at your fingertips
  
• Lunching with lawmakers
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Report shows New York shortchanging higher ed
  
• Higher ed advocates send out their own blizzard
  
• Freebies: Plant a tree — then hug it
  
• Florida update
  
• Fellowships available for study of higher ed
  
• Thousands fast for uninsured workers
  
• Cortese brings expertise to national arena
  
• Union promotes awareness about colorectal cancer
  
• Briefs: Workshops focus on inclusive schools
  
• Finding the tools to raise achievement
  

March 3, 2005

On the Cover

• Union Work
  
• Part 2: Why it's important to get the credit you deserve
  
• Hempstead educators work on their to-do lists
  
• SED hones message on middle-level reform
  
• Saturn/UAW awards honor union-district partnerships
  
• Union fights for retirees' health coverage on federal front
  
• President's Perspective: Our kids can't wait 12 more years
  
• POV: On school budgets, ask: 'If not us, then who?'
  
• Poll shows support for higher taxes on wealthy to finance New York 's schools
  
• Disabled dog aspires to be a front-runner
  
• A tree grows in Mexico
  
• Children's mental health conference
  
• Member Benefits: Tax credits you should know about
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• State Legislature protects retirees' health insurance
  
• Teachers could be excluded from IEP meetings
  
• Higher ed strategies
  
• Smart about health
  
• Union backs federal legislation to limit mandatory overtime for nurses
  
• Green-cleaning schools lead the way
  
• Nassau CC plans a green building
  
• Get tested for colorectal cancer
  
• State urges closing of 3 charter schools
  
• Education advocates urge end to CFE appeals
  
• Caucusing for a cause
  
• March into the 18th century
  
• Delving into the executive budget
  

February 17, 2005

On the Cover

• Workshops for 4201 Schools leaders
  
• A peek at the next generation's classrooms
  
• UUP launches ad campaign
  
• Prior service always a hot topic with members
  
• Enrollment, rigor grows in career and tech courses
  
• I'm a Superhero – I teach
  
• Group puts focus on School-Related Professional retirees
  
• Solidarity briefs
  
• Farm contractors plead guilty in slavery case
  
• Students learn by designing robots
  
• In other action by the Regents:
  
• Radio ad highlights education's value
  
• Psychologists: Medicaid cuts could cost lives
  
• President's Perspective: AFT-Africa AIDS effort deserves support
  
• POV: English teacher's trip to Poland results in cultural embrace
  
• NYU local launches campaign for involvement
  
• Noteworthy
  
• Support for new members
  
• Looking at moving science, social studies tests
  
• Minority task force report shows progress
  
• State refashions middle-level regulations
  
• A lifeline for new teachers
  
• Member Benefits: Save with payroll, pension deductions
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Collective bargaining rights under attack
  
• Holocaust seminar set for July
  
• State needs to feed university systems
  
• Union works with U.S. reps to fix federal budget
  
• Fast focuses on workers without health insurance
  
• Cole advocates basic job-skills initiative
  
• CFE pushing a statewide legislative fix
  
• Political talk over breakfast
  

February 3, 2005

On the Cover

• Union Work
  
• Waves of heartache, hope
  
• Beware: Do you want your public pension privatized?
  
• Wired and forward-thinking at SUNY Morrisville
  
• Reg change helped thousands of SRPs
  
• Funding boost for specialized schools
  
• High court affirms seniority protection for teaching assistants
  
• Retiree finds a calling in Gilda's Club
  
• President's Perspective: Why we reach out across the globe
  
• POV: House divided cannot stand
  
• Taking the union message on the road
  
• Member Benefits: Retirement requires planning
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Deja vu for New York 's young scientists
  
• Kudos for NYSUT publications
  
• NYSUT calls for strong higher education measures
  
• Health council takes on fiscal, professional concerns
  
• Union will fight state health-care cuts
  
• Freebies
  
• Union offers courses
  
• A school's best friend
  
• Looking at courage
  
• NYSUT honored for cancer walk support
  
• Exec budget is 'a better beginning'
  
• Bringing kids back to a good place
  
• Educators show their (college) class
  

January 20, 2005

On the Cover

• Yonkers teachers file for impasse
  
• Union mourns SRP leader
  
• The poorest New Yorkers gain a reprieve
  
• Looking for a living wage
  
• The little local that could
  
• Let's get political
  
• Central New York talk
  
• Union Work
  
• Union members reach out to aid tsunami survivors
  
• Use expert advice for your legal concerns
  
• Many protest weakening of teacher-prep programs
  
• Solidarity Briefs
  
• Making Strides volunteers set a record
  
• NYSUT urges speedy 'statewide solution'
  
• Law makes Mullany house a national historic site
  
• Scholarships are out there for unionists
  
• Regents reform math pre-K-8
  
• Privatization would hurt social security
  
• President's Perspective: Breaking with a tiresome tradition
  
• POV:You're playing checkers, but they're playing chess
  
• New local strives for equity at Cooper Union
  
• A new coping mechanism
  
• Noteworthy
  
• 83 NY teachers earn prestigious credential
  
• Your parents and long-term care
  
• Regents reopen five-year master's degree window
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Freebies
  
• SED forums detail new math and ELA tests
  
• Legal win bolsters substitute teachers
  
• Education policy conference is a first
  
• Dieticians educate patients and staff on health issues
  
• School counselors are needed now — more than ever
  
• Charter school petitions
  
• CFE asks court to impose sanctions
  
• Rebell envisions fiscal-reform finish line
  
• Briefs: Union personalizes ID badges
  
• A place where everybody knows your name
  
• 2 new sources of ideas for NYSUT Board
  

December 9, 2004

On the Cover

• Union fights for rights of re-hired Yonkers teachers
  
• Union assails veto of budget reform
  
• Ed unions draft principles for unity
  
• UFT fumes over cynical guide to firing educators
  
• TRS: More questions on the tiers' different death benefits
  
• Educators' tax deduction extended
  
• Another district goes sweatfree
  
• SUNY campuses handicap disabled students, staff
  
• Education career is her masterpiece
  
• Spotlight sparkles on SRPs
  
• Books from the heart
  
• Solidarity briefs: 6 million workers lose OT protection
  
• Sleep-out for the needy goes national
  
• Sailing into learning
  
• Chamber of commerce commends Schuylerville schools
  
• Salenger re-elected
  
• Resnikoff enjoys being able to give back
  
• Regents Briefs
  
• NYSUT 2005 Representative Assembly deadlines and policies
  
• President's Perspective: Where you shop makes a difference
  
• POV:Why today's nurses are educated, not trained
  
• You need to speak out to prevent suicide
  
• SRPs bolster Newburgh local
  
• Celebrating teaching's gold standard
  
• MEMBER BENEFITS: Financial obligations don't end at retirement; neither should your life insurance
  
• Adding it up
  
• One legislative race remains too close to call
  
• Statewide program helps small locals
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Middle schoolers want to be 'millionaires'
  
• Revised IDEA aims for greater flexibility
  
• Higher Ed:Community College Conference
  
• Union course targets germ-stopping strategies
  
• Freebies
  
• Take me out on a field trip
  
• Injured worker thanks NYSUT, union colleagues
  
• Columbia High School shooter bound for prison
  
• Union presses for CFE progress
  
• Buy union-made
  
• BOCES local looks for votes from colleagues
  

November 18, 2004

On the Cover

• Why don't I get credit for my military service?
  
• Union weighs in on teacher-ed plans
  
• From Nicaraguan sweatshops to a new life
  
• Working for 'sweatfree' college campuses
  
• A day to appreciate School-Related Professionals - Nov. 18
  
• Panel: Make sweeping changes in math courses
  
• School psychologist leaders keep in touch
  
• The pride of New York's public schools
  
• President's Perspective: Thanks for building a great union
  
• Union lawsuit wins $29M for overcharged consumers
  
• State union honors UFT's political action
  
• Regents' middle-level policy not ready yet
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Student-centered learning
  
• Addressing gaps in performance, civil rights
  
• President Hobart says he won't run again
  
• It's high time for higher ed funding
  
• The Herkimer school electorate is divided
  
• Hospital employees reimbursed for training
  
• Analyzing wins and losses in the 2004 election
  
• BOCES leaders see brighter future ahead
  
• BOCES back budgets
  
• Retiree raises money for Africa - AIDS program
  

November 4, 2004

On the Cover

• Bailout eases Yonkers funding crisis
  
• Answers: from death (benefits) to (state) taxes
  
• High stakes for high court
  
• Making Strides for a cure
  
• Governance law benefits Special Act schools
  
• Social Services: Should I move to Dallas to help with my new granddaughter?
  
• Q&A with Salenger
  
• Retirees celebrate a stronger voice
  
• Regents consider policy changes
  
• NYSUT 2005 Representative Assembly deadlines and policies
  
• President's Perspective: Some respite for a beleaguered district
  
• POV: Nancy, Chris, Jeff: The times, they are a-changing
  
• Unionists discuss the trends in state's nursing shortage
  
• Neira speaks at congressional conference
  
• UNION MENTOR
  
• MEMBER BENEFITS: Life insurance 101 — the NYSUT class
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Homework Hotline spans the state
  
• Union gets word out on bus-fuel safety
  
• Building better BOCES
  
• Faculty unions gain professional funds for adjuncts
  

October 21, 2004

On the Cover

• It's a go for healthy lifestyle initiative
  
• Students cram for crash course in Voting 101
  
• NYSUT's push for improved tier equity
  
• Ovarian cancer walk
  
• Milestones on the road to greater tier equity
  
• An in-depth look at the new tests
  
• 'The way our lives have turned out ...'
  
• Making strides from Binghamton to Buffalo
  
• Union seeks streamlining for special ed formula
  
• President's Perspective: On Nov. 2, our nation's health is at stake
  
• POV: Future teachers appeal for fair certification rules
  
• Labor on parade
  
• Higher ed activists urge: 'Override!'
  
• MEMBER BENEFITS: Catastrophe insurance supplements basic coverage
  
• Math scores rise; will funding follow suit?
  
• Lubin wins humanitarian award
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Retirees hit by Florida hurricanes struggle to clean up
  
• Freebies
  
• CTE professional development day canceled
  

October 7, 2004

On the Cover

• Union fights for better education in Yonkers
  
• Take a breather - How to avoid toxins in the workplace
  
• Time running out for voter registration
  
• UNION WORK
  
• Connecting quality careers with unionism
  
• Part I: NYSUT's tier equity program
  
• Union training emphasizes state standards
  
• NYU faulted for injuring worker
  
• Turning cancer into a teachable moment
  
• Rochester to bring back librarians, some programs
  
• NYSUT Board acts on 10 referred resolutions
  
• Regents draw line with charter application
  
• President's Perspective: Toni Cortese — not for herself alone
  
• An art teacher tells how work made her sick
  
• Assembly stops short of override
  
• Noteworthy
  
• Mexican unionists tell of organizing challenge
  
• MEMBER BENEFITS: Discount programs save members money
  
• Panel strives to clarify math standards
  
• Behind-the-scenes efforts propel the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Progress for Mullany House, labor studies center
  
• Educators travel and learn in Japan
  
• Jamestown faculty union helps make college a reality for scholars
  
• Freebies
  
• Book adapts Nigerian folktale
  
• Teaching family wrote (compiled) the book
  
• Governor's vetoes threaten ELT programs
  
• Sculpting insular lessons across curriculum
  
• 1,000 Books Project inspires readers of all ages
  
• Rochester contracts with BOCES for nursing
  

September 23, 2004

On the Cover

• Yonkers budget cuts leave big gaps
  
• When do I have to give retirement notice?
  
• Attitude+union helps assistant fight cancer
  
• Solidarity briefs
  
• Union pushes for higher ed, health restorations
  
• Concerned dad questions cost of charter schools
  
• Fair showcases school excellence
  
• Regents weigh change in master's degree reg
  
• NCLB Act unfairly labels New York schools
  
• UNION MENTOR
  
• MEMBER BENEFITS: Simplify and save with payroll, pension deductions
  
• Making strides to battle breast cancer
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Labor Day: A great cause for a parade
  
• Retirees: Keefe to be TRS Board retiree rep
  
• Three options for middle-level programs
  
• Sign up for in-service conference
  
• NYSUT fund to aid Florida hurricane victims
  
• Board elects new NYSUT vice president
  
• Event bridges labor, hip hop
  
• Raising voices
  
• FREEBIES
  
• SUNY trains the next generation of urban teachers
  
• Union plans CTE professional day
  
• Regents cite Cortese's contribution
  
• Difficulty grows in negotiating contracts
  
• Sending the budget back for a rewrite
  
• A busload of back-to-school support
  
• Union offers help with absentee ballots
  

September 9, 2004

On the Cover

• 'Total chaos' in Yonkers
  
• Grade-change ruling rankles faculty
  
• Putting a spotlight on workers' rights
  
• Marking 20 years of leading professional development
  
• When do I have to give retirement notice?
  
• Tasting some sweet recognition
  
• Solidarity briefs
  
• Make no excuse — register to vote now
  
• Regents to debate charter, middle-level education
  
• Summer days focused on professional development
  
• What we learned over the soggy summer
  
• President's Perspective: What's behind NYSUT's endorsement
  
• The working poor's cry
  
• Union urges vigilance on overtime regs
  
• Noteworthy
  
• Nauman elected to ARA national board
  
• Shiny motorcycles, soggy sneakers
  
• Enhancing Benefit Trust's tax-deferred programs
  
• Lubin garners champion of labor recognition
  
• Letters to the editor
  
• Union stalwarts honored for 'living the legacy'
  
• Kindergarten, long ago ...
  
• Civil rights pioneer to address in-service conference
  
• Freebies
  
• Fredonia local parries the Fourth Estate
  
• Long-stalled CFE case gets 'special masters'
  
• Culture questions from the Vietnamese
  
• AFT unearths charter test results
  
• Creating a network to battle ovarian cancer
  
• Retiree forms coalition looking for answers
  
• Group rolls to Canada to buy prescription drugs
  
• Governor's veto ax falls hard
  
• From Finland to the Bronx: The educational tale of a gospel choir
  
• 'Mr. Fitz' thinks conceptually in art classroom
  
• Getting green on Adirondack Day