Thank you for all you do!

As the school year draws to a close, all of us at NYSUT want to thank you for your tremendous dedication. It’s been a challenging year — but through it all, you've stood strong and persevered. Over and over, you've shown how public schools are the place where students, parents and educators come together as a community.

U.S. Supreme Court hands down landmark cases

This week, the Supreme Court handed down multiple decisions that will touch the lives of millions of Americans. Earlier this week, in Carson v. Makin, the court laid the groundwork that states must provide publ

Union wins APPR reprieve

Gov. Kathy Hochul Friday signed a bill suspending, for an additional year, the Annual Professional Performance Review process. Advanced through grassroots advocacy from NYSUT members and lobbying by union legislative staff, the bill recently passed both the state Senate and the Assembly.

“As we come to the end of another school year that has been anything but normal, we welcome the governor’s decision to suspend the APPR process for another year,” said NYSUT President Andy Pallotta. “We will continue working with the legislature and the governor to address the APPR

This form should be used to track any work-related exposures to COVID-19 that members have. 

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Below are the proposed bylaw changes for the 2019 Summer Representative meeting.  If you have any questions, contact Ryan Clark at ryanpatrickclark@gmail.com.  

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Attached below are the minutes from Executive Board meeting of the NYSLC conducted on July 11th on Long Island.

If you have any questions please contact your local union representative or NYSLC President Ryan Clark at ryanpatrickclark@gmail.com

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Dear Members,

As the summer has come to a conclusion and the weather has gotten colder, I know you have all been anxiously anticipating the retro check for summers 2016, 2017, and the recently concluded 2018.  Over the past few weeks I have been in contact with UUP trying to get a better idea of when we are going to see this payment.  I do not want anyone to get wrong information or get their hopes up for a check in the next few weeks. 

After the contract was ratified, the agreement went to Albany and began a process to bring all of the salary schedules into alignment with the 2% raises we