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Frequently Asked Questions
Posted Jul 18, 2017
| Category: Environmental Health and Safety
New state regulations mandating the testing for lead in water in all public New York schools went into effect on Sept. 6, 2016. To comply with these new state laws, the DOE has been testing all water outlets in all New York City schools for lead. Chapter leaders may have already or soon will receive the results from the testing conducted at schools via their principals. As part of this new state regulation, notification letters on the results must be sent to school staff and parents of...
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Posted Sep 17, 2015
| Category: Health Benefits
If you are enrolling in the Welfare Fund for benefits and are eligible, you should receive your insurance documents in 7-10 days. If you are enrolling dependents for benefits, you must provide all specified required documents (marriage certificate, birth certificate, etc.) for the enrollment to be processed.
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Posted Sep 17, 2015
| Category: Website and Email Help
- Make sure you are using the correct last name, which is the last name that shows on your paycheck.
- If you have recently moved, try using the previous zip code where you resided.
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Posted Sep 17, 2015
| Category: Website and Email Help
- Make sure you are using the correct last name, birth date, Social Security number or 10-digit Welfare Fund ID number and zip code.
- Please use the first and last name that is shown on your paycheck, even if it differs from the name you used when you signed up for the website.
- If you have recently moved and have not yet updated your information with the Welfare Fund, please use the previous zip code where you resided.
- If you have not enrolled in the Welfare...
Posted Sep 17, 2015
| Category: Website and Email Help
- Make sure you have already enrolled with the UFT. You can enroll in the union as an active member on the UFT website.
- If you are newly hired, have you have received a paycheck from your employer? If not, we are unable to identify you by the information you have entered. Please try verifying your identity once you have received a paycheck from your employer.
- Please use the first and last name that is shown on your paycheck. Some...
Posted Sep 17, 2015
| Category: Website and Email Help
- Make sure you are using an acceptable email address. You may not use certain government and/or school domains. Examples of email addresses that are not allowed: nyc.gov, schools.edu, boe.net.
- Make sure your passwords match.
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Posted Jul 6, 2015
| Category: School Safety
Every school must have a school safety plan and a crisis response plan that is updated annually and logged with the education, police and fire departments.
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Posted Jul 6, 2015
| Category: School Safety
A SAVE room (named after the acronym for the state school safety law - Safe Schools Against Violence in Education) is an area or room that houses students who have been removed from their classrooms or suspended from school, or, in the case of elementary schools, suspended from "buddy schools." The room must be staffed and instruction provided by a licensed pedagogue.
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Posted Jul 6, 2015
| Category: Line of Duty Injuries
All teachers, guidance counselors, secretaries, social workers, school psychologists, career and technical teachers (CTEs), and lab specialists are covered by ILOD. Paras are covered for up to one year in cases of assault; otherwise they should apply for Workers’ Compensation. In certain circumstances, lab specialist and CTEs can also choose Workers’ Compensation, unless appointed to TRS.
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Posted Jul 6, 2015
| Category: School Safety
Absolutely! If a student is a danger to himself or others you should have the student removed immediately. (If you don’t know how to call for assistance, find out now. There should be a written protocol.) If the student is not violent but is disruptive to the class’ learning, you may file a Disruptive Student Removal Form under Chancellor’s Regulation A-443. That removal is not immediate...
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Posted Jul 6, 2015
| Category: School Safety
In either case, you should notify your immediate supervisor as soon as possible. If there was danger to you and/or other staff and students, also alert your UFT chapter leader and make sure to file a UFT incident report online so you can get needed support and assistance. Administrators must also report the violation or incident on the DOE’s online system...
Read More >All single-session schools, except those that have adopted a school-based option to change their schedules, will have the following schedule:
Monday: There is an 80-minute block of time immediately following the school day that will be used for Professional Development. If less than the entire 80 minutes is used for Professional Development on a given day, the remaining time will be used for Other Professional Work. This period of time ends exactly 80 minutes after...
Read More >It applies only to all classroom teachers (including speech teachers, Hearing Education Services teachers, substitute teachers and F status teachers) and paraprofessionals (including substitute paraprofessionals) in single-session schools unless a school has adopted a school-based option on the reconfiguration of time.
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Posted May 21, 2014
| Category: Salary
UFT members who take an approved unpaid leave will get all of the rate increases that other employees will receive upon their return. In addition, they will receive all of their retroactive pay so long as they return from leave by Oct. 1, 2023. Employees who miss a scheduled lump-sum payment will be paid on Oct. 1 of each year until all payments are made.
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Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) are mandated. However, the paperwork reduction provisions in the proposed contract should help to reduce other paperwork, especially redundant or repetitive paperwork, for District 75 teachers and other special education teachers so that these teachers would have more time to work on students’ IEPs.
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