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2003 - 2004
August 2, 2004
On the Cover
- 'Mr. I' comes to Albany
- AFT elects Cortese executive vice president
- Teacher of the year is musician and mentor
- Union leaders, senators praise Feldman's vision
- Budget talks stretch on while judge waits
- NYSUT-backed bills boost Special Act schools
- Money-saving advice can help educators
- Procedures for filling officer vacancy
- Preview of the October Inservice Conference
- Volunteers make Special Olympics a success
- Your union is calling
Summer 2004
On the Cover
- Board elects Dick Iannuzzi second vice president
- UFT president asks Legislature to stand and deliver
- AFL-CIO kicks off 'Voice @ Work Week of Action'
- Nauman elected to Alliance for Retired Americans national board
- It's official for Wellsville local
- New York State honors Teacher of the Year
- Flags and thanks at Okte Elementary
June 16, 2004
On the Cover
- Terrorized Yorktown teacher loses her job
- Yonkers mentor program getting results
- WASHINGTON WATCH: Tax relief for whom?
- Summer assignment: Register to vote
- Notice of vacancy - NYSUT at-large director
- UNION MENTOR
- When do I have to give retirement notice?
- Looking at trends in state test scores
- Serving teacher centers
- Regional council finds common ground
- Special-ed figures show gains, challenges
- Program targets promiscuity at Abbott School
- SOLIDARITY: New jobs offer less health care
- Survey looks at hike in the compulsory school age
- Art teacher deals with exposure to toxics
- Union wins rulings for retirees
- Retiree briefs: Florida retirees sponsor 'Music for Children'
- Regents briefs: SED eyes change in teacher prep
- Teacher/philanthropist signs on with PS 21
- The high cost of the American Dream
- So how hard can teaching really be?
- UFT helps Bronx teacher through medical crisis
- Celebrating the gold standard: national certification
- Award attests to music teacher's zeal
- State requires mentoring programs
- Teaching the values of Memorial Day
- Letters to the editor
- Keep in touch over the summer!
- English teacher 'still waiting to get burned out'
- Freebies
- Coalitions call for action on CFE suit
- Ahoy! Union offers discounts for educational voyages
- Scholars all at Fashion Institute
- Walter Dunn retires
- 'They brought me back from the dead'
- Local unions stand up for better contracts
- NYSUT in the community
- Character education conferences planned
- EDUCATION & EQUALITY
June 2, 2004
On the Cover
- UNION WORK
- Reform ideas spark UFT spring conference
- Tie a yellow ribbon
- Sweatfree communities meet at NYSUT headquarters
- SRP: Training tailored to transportation staff
- A little help from SRP friends
- Washington Watch: Federal funding falls short for special education
- Solidarity briefs
- Social Services
- Union responds to mixed school budget voting trends
- NYU union presses laboratory safety probe as worker's health problems intensify
- Watertown retirees sue over insurance charge
- State has August exam schedule
- Psychologists relate the pain of 'so many Timothys'
- President's Perspective: Chalk one up for the 'little guys'
- NYSUT welcomes two private school locals
- Why the union endorses
- National board certification linked to student performance
- SED proposal targets middle-level curricula
- Higher ed: It all adds up to a community of math teachers
- UNION ACTION
- Letters to the editor
- Mark your calendar
- Workshops offer credit for health care workers
- Are students getting a free ride?
- Solidarity bolsters gay students' civil rights
- Freebies
- Feldman to step down
- Lake Placid lays down law for academic honesty
- CUNY has potential to be the 'work force workhorse'
- Assistance offered to NYC immigrants
- NYSUT salutes community service standouts
- Time is running out
- Closed-door budget negotiations go public
- Briefs
- A metric wrench, a computer and a dream
May 19, 2004
On the Cover
- Washington Watch: Bush campaign wavers from a promise
- Do I get pension credit for summer work?
- Haunted by heartbreak, they seek ‘Timothy’s Law’
- Channeling energy into a teacher center
- State faces certification application backlog
- Recycling ink cartridges pays off for schools
- Stop the pain
- SED surveys special ed teachers
- NYSUT practices what it preaches with solidarity
- Interfaith group examines school fiscal reform
- Retiree benefits prompt closer look at ruling
- Alliance airs radio advertisements
- President's Perspective: Nurses stand up for patient safety
- Point of View
- Senate approves overtime bill
- Noteworthy
- Member Benefits
- Member Benefits
- Letters to the editor
- Squaring higher standards with home-schooling
- Nurses' 'vital signs' stress patient safety
- Hazardous waste looms beneath campus life
- Unionists lobby for health care improvements
- Union pumps up get-out-the-vote effort
- Freebies
- Farm workers march 200 miles for justice
- Contract Struggle
May 5, 2004
On the Cover
- Teenager takes humanitarian lead
- Washington Watch: Spurring debate on the USA Patriot Act
- Voter turnout brings budget voting success
- UNION WORK
- UNION ACTION
- TRS: Mail from members: from health insurance to tier status
- A ‘chartered' course
- In the spotlight
- Special Act, 853 schools
- Student discount for classical concerts
- Solidarity Briefs
- The realities of low-wage jobs
- Working together for pro-education votes
- Union-backed law protects retiree health insurance
- President's Perspective: Ask not for whom the bell tolls May 18
- Point of View
- Politics and brunch
- Member Benefits
- AFT supports retiree health-benefit rules
- Letters to the editor
- Labor-religion coalition honors two
- Reenacting history and reinvigorating the classroom
- Health-care professionals getting involved
- Freebies
- Community spirit burns bright
- School finance task force asks some tough questions
- Briefs
- Columbia High copes with post-shooting trauma
- Ardent advocates
April 21, 2004
On the Cover
- Looking out for substitute teachers
- Washington Watch
- Union Mentor
- TRS: Questions on tier reinstatement, contributions
- Teacher centers in New York
- Celebrating 20 years of improving classrooms
- Working on retirement security for '853' staff
- Solidarity Briefs
- Social Services
- Outreach - the Schuylerville way
- Getting organized
- Coalition stresses the positive in public education
- President's Perspective: Time to raise the minimum wage
- Point of View
- An early entry into political activism
- Organizing at a rapid pace
- Rochester pitches in to save school nurses
- Noteworthy
- Ads give New York's story of educational excellence
- Unionists break down barriers with messages of hope and solidarity for Mexico
- Member Benefits
- Syracuse labor council leader calls on workers to join unions
- Letters to the editor
- Union editors take a bow
- Easing test jitters
- School nurses administer advocacy, too
- Health-care union rally ready to roll
- New York looks at tougher requirements for RNs
- Fighting for freedom in the library stacks
- Art is a sign language of its own
- Settlement bolsters improperly fired paraprofessional
- Freebies
- Development program recognized
- Union honors community service all-stars
- The long struggle
- A look at contract gains, real and elusive
- Lawmakers talk state budget reform
- Regents Briefs
- BOCES Lobby Day
April 7, 2004
On the Cover
- UFT delegates face trials with humor
- Visiting nurse promotes advocacy
- Political action center features 'exit polling'
- TRS: Special elections slated for TRS convention delegates
- TRS: Questions on maternity leave, service credit
- Union holds down expenses
- Strange times for NYC finances
- Delegates tackle special orders
- Offering help with the worries of elective surgery
- 'Voice of the union' in Sullivan Co.
- Silver understands math education
- Senator believes in public education
- Make Brown decision a reality
- Delegates set course for NYSUT
- Congressman assails complacency
- Political action center features 'exit polling'
- Growing NYSUT from Buffalo to Hicksville
- Uniting to get things done
- Nursing shortage plagues state
- Commissioner defends importance of music, art, technology, home & career skills
- Labor leader McLaughlin addresses delegates
- McCall: Speak up for education
- Rally takes care of every branch
- Lubin's ambition: get out and vote
- Saving lives, the union way
- A clear voice for NY education
- AFT vice president presses political action
- Hughes tells RA to fight for unionism with resolve
- Hobart calls on members to stand up, speak out
- Hevesi: Support the teachers' agenda
- A go-getter works for border justice
- Speaking out for inner-city Rochester kids and teachers
- Finance report pegs school needs up to $5.5 billion
- NYSUT documents explosion of excellence
- An admired leader announces retirement
- 'I want to hear your footsteps'
- Cortese shines light on 'quiet heroes'
- Long Island activist leads by mentoring
- Improving access to higher education
- A clear voice for NY education
- Raising money to curb AIDS
March 24, 2004
On the Cover
- WASHINGTON WATCH: Houston 'miracle' stands accountability on its head
- UNION WORK
- Special elections slated for TRS convention delegates
- TRS: Questions about part-time service, final average salary
- Loving a tough job -- tales of teachers at 853 and Special Act schools
- Solidarity briefs
- The robots are coming!
- The rising tide of student achievement
- Time for recognition in Schenectady
- Anatomy of a nightmare
- RA delegates poised to craft union policy
- Psychologists respond to post-9/11 trauma
- President's Perspective
- An angel steps in when tragedy strikes student
- A temporary reprieve for city school nurses
- Lutheran hospital nurses show gains
- The truth about the new Medicare law
- Roadside scholars in Greece
- Opening your heart and your home
- French culture flavors Adirondack hamlet
- Freebies
- Finance report delayed
- POINT OF VIEW: Time for us to clean out that junky classroom
- 'Do the right thing'
March 10, 2004
On the Cover
- One more reason to get politically active
- UNION MENTOR
- NYSUT ad campaign touts public higher ed
- 'What color are your POST-ITS?'
- TRS: We provide some answers to your pension questions
- Familiarity breeds success
- Union targets funding for special schools
- Solidarity Briefs
- Small locals
- This is retirement?
- Riding for life with Plattsburgh teacher
- Former UUP president mourned
- President's Perspective: Thank you, Secretary Paige
- POINT OF VIEW: Learning well
- Union helps parents partner with students for academic success
- Noteworthy
- Illuminating the growth of middle-level excellence
- Objective financial advice at your fingertips
- Letters to the editor
- Plaudits abound for hero educators in school shooting
- Faculty unionists press for fiscal restorations
- Raising awareness about respiratory therapists
- Greece staffers take training, like their jobs, professionally
- Retirees getting organized
- Freebies
- Unionists fast for justice
- Community colleges, BOCES work on partnerships
- Briefs
February 25, 2004
On the Cover
- UNION WORK
- The buck stops here
- New regulations
- What's in a job title?
- Ready to pitch in during a crisis
- Tested by fire, a school safety plan worked
- President's Perspective: Profiles in courage at Columbia High
- Our children live, thanks to you
- Informational picketing debuts at charter school
- Districts scramble to meet mentoring deadline
- Simplify with payroll deduction
- The math adds up to higher ed cuts
- UFT lines up state support in contract fight
- Continuing ed conference
- Heroic educators stop gunman
- Larger 'down payment' sought for CFE reforms
February 11, 2004
On the Cover
- TRS: We provide some answers to your pension questions
- Sweatfree treats for your sweetie
- Union nurses keep watch over practices
- Option offered to those snowed out of Regents Exams
- President's Perspective: Some not-so-sweets for your sweet
- POINT OF VIEW: Remembering the 1951 student protest that helped to spark a revolution
- Hats off to union's organizing successes
- Are you insured if you become disabled?
- Letters to the editor
- NYSUT welcomes a new controller
- Legislative session 2004 kickoff
- How to help students succeed in research
- Demanding resources for tomorrow's work force
- Drama unfolds with adjunct's lessons in India
- Impasse at charter school
- $7 billion sought to solve public ed inequities
- Local union offers persect graduation gift
January 28, 2004
On the Cover
- Teachers' kits spotlight our country's dad
- 'They all smile in the same language'
- TRS: We provide some answers to your pension questions
- A special delivery to Iraq
- Teacher center training helps locals
- Power in numbers pumps up SRP local
- Solidarity briefs
- Faculty union insists on safe mold cleanup
- Pride rises in Roosevelt classrooms
- President's Perspective: Shortchanging students is no joke
- POINT OF VIEW: The quintessential idealist
- Summer programs for physics teachers
- Unionists find common ground between NYC, LI
- Visiting nurses vie for funds
- WASHINGTON WATCH: Without funding, the law leaves children behind
- Lacking consensus on new middle-level regs
- Union Mentor
- Tell your congressional reps to restore Medicare's promise
- 100 ways to say thanks to a teacher
- Letters to the editor
- Fresh eyes, studies to support SUNY, CUNY
- NYSUT's Frasca retires after 25 years
- Cortese: Focus on school funding, not schools
- Making schools more inclusive
- State holds first 3 charters accountable
- Budget battle begins on higher ground
January 14, 2004
On the Cover
- Point of View: Stop scapegoating teachers
- Remembering those who served
- Committee looks at potential TRS endorsement
- TRS: More on prior service credit to boost your pension
- Rule clarifies testing for severely disabled kids
- Long Island educator is expert on terrorism
- Pataki urges funding reform, no new money
- Courses help SRPs meet new requirements
- Guide for special-ed tests
- NYSUT task force examines issues for small local unions
- Brooklyn College pays tribute to retiree activist
- Medicare debate raises profile of retiree alliance
- Regents call for change in state aid formula
- President's Perspective: The politics behind the Medicare mess
- Noteworthy
- Seven days without teasing
- 'I am a better teacher'
- The fight over Medicare overhaul continues
- Cortese recognized for 'Making Strides' efforts
- Letters to the editor
- New IRS rule on TRS loans
- NYSUT garners communications kudos
- Report provides contract help for 'e-learning'
- GTA gives library a helping hand (puppet)
- NYSUT task force looks at fiscal realities
- Dworkin elected at-large director
- Drug patents struck down in class-action suit
- Unionists defend academic freedom on campus
- Censorship and politics water down textbooks
- Defending the right to read
- ETP offers bully prevention course
- BOCES superintendents gain a raise
- Birchwood Elementary is an open book
- Curtailing an active union member
December 3, 2003
On the Cover
- UNION WORK
- State Ed Department invites teachers to draft test questions
- Honoring Lou Stollar
- Investing in the people who make NYU work
- Special-ed measures of progress debated
- Making plans: special act schools
- A healthy dose of learning for the golden years
- School psychologist wins national honor
- President's Perspective: Celebrating art in public education
- Nurses answer call to political action
- Nurses' Saturday night out - on the picket line
- Medicare drug plan: A bitter pill to swallow
- Calculators still permitted on Math A Regents Exams
- Union raises nearly $600,000 for cancer cure
- Orange County local spreads literary cheer
- LETTERS: Angry retiree says,'AARP has sold us out'
- The union's holiday hiatus
- Faculty union forges its identity
- Union to state: Invest in higher ed
- Freebies
- Union-made gifts for the holidays
- Retirement savvy means holding on to the family home
- SAVING LIVES
- Corn re-elected to TRS board
- Fighting for fair contracts
- Regents address charter schools' future
- NYSUT celebrates art
November 19, 2003
On the Cover
- TRS: Boosting pension credit
- UNION TECHNOLOGY: NYSUT airs it out with videoconferencing
- What paras should know about new state and federal requirements on the job
- Getting started, with a boost from one's peers
- Small-city school proposition defeated
- President's Perspective: Sham Medicare bill is a runaway train
- State will rescore physics exams
- Union calls for middle-school policy panel
- Keep up the fight to save Medicare!
- Big Brother peeks over librarians' shoulders
- Letters to the editor
- Take a whirl around New York state history
- Horror stories show campus inequities
- Staff relocated as crumbling school closes
- Freebies
- Report: 'Not So Fast' on charter schools
- BRIEFS: Radio spots tout SRPs
- The BOCES message, early and often
- Board member explores union-classroom connections
- Hamburg, Kings Park locals win AFT awards
- Making connections in the global village
November 5, 2003
On the Cover
- UFTers rally for 'children first'
- TRS: All about your 3 percent pension contribution
- SUNY grapples with plans for systemwide test
- Warning against 'huge step backward'
- SRPs look to future
- SOLIDARITY BRIEFS
- Vote 'yes' on Prop 2
- President's Perspective: Heeding the voices of real experts
- 'Forever in my heart'
- Working on middle-level policy changes
- Call now on Medicare Rx bill at (800) 839-5276
- Math results show the charter-school gap
- Math-score gains show formula for success
- Stepping up to fight breast cancer
- Letters to the editor
- 'The idealism is still there'
- A program for progress
- History starts at home ... and school
- Freebies
- Long Island local seeks support in struggle
- Two dozen more charter schools proposed
- Bulletin notes busing changes
October 22, 2003
On the Cover
- TRS: Utilize expert advice for your legal concerns
- Stern educates others about the labor movement
- State recognizes SRPs with a day of their own
- Poverty numbers grim for 2002
- Schools can help end child slavery on cocoa farms
- Solidarity briefs
- This generation's Freedom Ride
- 3 elected to Board
- Retirees to Washington: hands off Medicare
- Regents extend 55 passing grade
- Ed reforms parallel NYSUT's calls for action
- Recycle ink cartridges to benefit kids
- Constitutional amendment would help small-city schools
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- Walking an extra mile for a good cause
- Modeling good practice for first-year teachers
- Middle ground on middle-level education
- Regents to approve mentor regulations
- How to talk to kids about cancer
- In stride in Buffalo
- Letters to the editor
- New IRS rule on combining TRS loans
- Historian dresses for 18th-century success
- POINT OF VIEW: Bush's house of cards
- Local gives supplies, backpacks to needy students
- Freebies
- Exam-direction delay snags ESL students
- Democracy in action, in authenticity
- CUNY's archive of Sept. 11 materials praised
- Briefs
- Grant revs up antique car extravaganza
- Coping with food allergies
- AFT helps African teachers fight AIDS
October 8, 2003
On the Cover
- New members: What you need to know about TRS
- Here's some tax relief for teachers
- Who makes your sports equipment?
- SRPs get training on ways to handle difficult students
- NYSUT Board acts on referred resolutions
- Vote 'yes' on Proposal Two
- President's Perspective: Help make strides against breast cancer
- Physics exam: irresponsible without defined parameters
- Demographics drive nursing shortage
- Persistence saved South Colonie teacher's life
- Take a stroll - Join us Oct. 19
- Battling an unseen foe
- Letters to the editor
- Thousands show union strength at Albany event
- Court rules NY unions can sue health insurer
- Tips and tools for improving student outcomes
- Immigrant workers: 'We only want to work'
- Homework Hotline spans Empire State
- C.W. Post Collegial Federation ends strike
- Freebies
- NYC vote set on class-size limits
- Better safe than sorry
September 24, 2003
On the Cover
- Budget boost begets big rally
- Union urges Congress: Think again on vouchers
- TRS: Beware of commercial 'retirement workshops'
- Point of View: A substitute subsists on pride and hope
- Solidarity briefs
- Union members mark Sept. 11 anniversary
- PLAs another tool for school board members
- Grievances show attempts to intimidate unions
- Regents updated on tests, charters, middle level ed
- Mark your calendar: RA is March 25-27
- From golden arches to professional development
- Bush privatization plan hits snag in Congress
- President's Perspective
- Regents hear from physics teachers on exam
- Pursuing the dream of teaching
- Shanker grants are available for national board hopefuls
- Retirees take Medicare fight to Capitol Hill
- Coping with cancer
- Join the breast cancer fight
- Letters to the editor
- Looking back on labor's gains
- Radio for workers takes root
- Monopoly gets real: Students toss dice of life
- The future of labor hinges on today's working families
- Former chapter leaders giving back in UFT session at Hunter College
- Forging effective higher education partnerships
- Freebies
- Pataki appoints union leader to fiscal reform commission
- Immigrant workers ride and rally for workplace rights, recognition
- Strikers demand equity for faculty unions
- Fiscal uncertainty = contract impasses
- Helping others emerge from the darkness
- Brochures help with back-to-school night
- Students in the building trades learn and earn
- An apple a day... means cash for schools
September 10, 2003
On the Cover
- Test page - link not active
- Workers win union fight against Wal-Mart
- TRS: A lean year at the Capitol for pension improvements
- Syracuse TA dollars make sense
- Jump-starting a model for curriculum integration
- Smoothing regulatory path for teaching assistants
- A special gesture
- Solidarity briefs
- Award for one-minute science videos
- Teachers forage for lessons in the forest
- Going to college with help from the union
- Classrooms among most dangerous worksites
- UUPer gets by with help from friends
- Recycle ink cartridges to benefit kids
- Journalist Ramirez was lauded for activism
- President's Perspective: Another publishing year begins
- Physics teachers give low marks to June exam
- Union's support draws new locals
- UFTers learn to lead
- Mills agrees to re-scoring of math exams
- Rowing therapy thrills retired teacher
- Feldman to lead union walk for breast cancer
- Letters to the editor
- New NYSUT leaders learn the ropes
- Local union leaders focus on outreach
- Oct. 16-18 inservice conference targets data
- PSC achieves intellectual property victory
- Labor unions plan 'heartfelt' walk Sept. 20
- Angry retiree arrested seeking Rx for bill
- Bill calls for childhood obesity prevention programs
- Deadlines loom for Sept. 11 health claims
- Freebies
- Landmark ruling calls for school aid changes
- Budget blues cause back-to-school bumps
- Speaking up for community colleges on NYSUT Board
- AFT conference analyzes federal law