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aff complete the annual school survey for their respective schools the feedback provided is perhaps the most comprehensive way for the public to get a feel of the inner workings of a particular school questions about safety facilities and trust in leadership are just some examples of the dozens of topics covered in the annual survey for educators trying to decide whether they should return to their school or interview elsewhere the public release date of the annual survey results is tantalizing traditionally the data from the annual school surveys is made available to the public in early mid august just as open market is closing or has already closed imagine families trying to decide the best schools for their children and having to use year old results to try to make their determination imagine an educator making an important career altering decision to change schools in july only to find out a month later that the school has plummeted over the past year and has less than stellar ratings imagine passing up on an offer from a school that has turned it around in the last year and is now lauded by students families and staff new teachers and those definitely looking to transfer are most negatively impacted by the lack of timeliness with which results are made available there have been educators who did their due diligence by researching the annual survey stats before making a decision only to find that they had been misled they took a job based on lofty principal ratings but later discovered that those belonged to the previous principal the new principal had dreadful stats and turned out to be a nightmare our jobs are difficult enough we shouldn t be subjected to parsing through outdated data when making big decisions regarding our livelihoods for the past two years new action caucus has published the survey results with a focus on teacher principal trust teacher influence and instructional leadership however by the time everything is published it s too late educators are locked into their positions for the upcoming school year and would only be able to leave if they are granted a release by their principal a risky proposition to say the least especially if they deny you all of this seems tremendously unfair to everyone involved but this is the way it s always been so we accept it but we shouldn t especially since superintendents have had access to the survey results since june 2 and principals have had access since june 3 it makes sense that school leaders and superintendents have access to the survey results the best of them may look at the results and hopefully reflect on what s working and what isn t and what they can do to improve their schools petty leaders may use the results for more nefarious purposes such as targeting and tormenting their respective staffs regardless of what if anything superintendents and principals do with the information the rest of us should be incensed that we will not have access to these very same results for another two months the argument can easily be made that the survey data is much more imperative and time sensitive for educators students and families after all we re the ones who must choose the best environment for ourselves and our loved ones what benefit is it to give early access to school leadership instead of making the results publicly available to everyone why even keep up the facade of transparency when 99 of us are working off of year old data it s bad enough that the annual school survey results aren t released until open market closes but the situation becomes flat out unacceptable once you realize that the data is readily available to those in power but not for the rest of us it would be nice to know what the staff thinks of their principal or what the students think about school safety before going on that july interview instead we re left with outdated and possibly inaccurate information to help put the pieces together we are not being treated fairly and we are not being given a sufficient opportunity to figure out our next steps school leaders are encouraged to review results with their staff but how many principals actually do that while that information may be valuable we already know how we feel about our own schools moreso the rest of the schools throughout the city would still remain a complete mystery the annual school survey results need to be released to everybody as early as possible not just school leaders and superintendents considering open market begins in april the argument can be made that even early june is too long to wait we deserve access to up to date information so that we have the chance to make career decisions that are best for us and our families uft delegate assembly minutes june 10 2026 published june 10 2026 uncategorized leave a comment tags education mulgrew politics tax credit teachers teaching uft united federation of teachers vouchers writing president s report moment of silence for former chapter leader joe seidel from automotive and townsend harris federal been talking about federal tax credit voucher program for past few months coming to us very shortly guidelines regulations supposed to be out over the next few days or next week this was in the big beautiful bill wherever they ve done tax credits or vouchers it s been an abysmal failure just based on education results not to mention separation of church and state they were smart in how they packaged this one they keep saying the same thing it s not a voucher program it s a tax credit program at this moment there s no cap on it how will federal government afford that 1 700 tax credit you can donate to schools it s a way to pull people from public schools what happens is that slowly over the years the tax credit gets raised more of a burden on states to fund public schools because no federal funding will go to state everything will become a tax credit for vouchers met with aft 2 weeks ago completely up to state governor not legislature if they want to opt in our governor has said that she s very interested in anything that will help the middle class get tax breaks had a brief conversation we are gearing up for that fight all of the state federations in the aft aft sending letter to all democratic governors not to do this they ve carefully put together a package where they have lots of talking points about will let public schools use this majority of parents we serve in public schools aren t looking for tax credits looking to pay basic grocery bills this is a giveaway to more affluent families will start over summer when regulations come up will try to have it out by the midterm elections ai lots of opinions on ai some want it banned completely the aflcio took a position that we need guardrails on ai datacenters i don t know how you would stop them massive projects and infrastructure deals that are going to move forward people want a complete moratorium or local community has to approve it but aflcio has all of the construction unions will move data centers to impoverished areas in terms of us with ai we continue down the path that we have to have more guardrails for children s and our own privacy we finally have gotten to the point where we are training teachers to use ai to write ieps use ai for things beyond the lesson plan unrealistic to block students from using ai this is the stuff where as new technology emerges we ll train people to get what we need out of ai platform not simple ai companies go to where the money is administrators and school boards control the money administrators want to come up with a system that will do observations that s been their thing all across the country thousands of teachers are not observed every year in nyc they want ai to do it for them we re not going to let that happen what helps our children best that s what we want state state budget is finally done still don t have school budgets thanks da for advocacy made a significant step forward in fixing tier 6 would not be sitting here talking about age 58 other unions made choices based on what they need every year we knocked off the age saved people 9 000 per year in pension contributions if you knock off 5 years that s 45 000 we also wanted to remove the penalties if you were going to retire 16 years from now at 58 in tier 6 before this legislation passed you would ve lost 25 of your pension which is ridiculous because you already paid for it that s why tier 6 is so bad aggressively negative but we are not done we have to get to 55 have to get the contributions those are all very important things have to move forward we wanted to fix the foundation aid formula people got on bus to albany and lobbied we were able to get homelessness and other things included in budget to help fund nyc schools community schools got a lot of money state has moved forward over 20 million to community schools teacher centers also got funded supposedly all the grades are getting a new math curriculum next year except 9th grade we know it won t be helpful teacher centers are very important city class size we have a class size working group that meets on a weekly basis with the chancellor s office and csa schools submitting plans are highly successful budget in place so that everyone hired for class size is a separate line item that s a big deal because of school budgets teachers hired for class size must be a separate line item we got to 60 law is 4 years old but requires work from the doe two major things that they didn t do over the last 4 years the capital space plan what construction we need to do it s a lot less than we thought but we have no plan no construction started if you re going to build more classrooms for more classes you need more staff doe doesn t recruit themselves didn t design a plan when they said we need an extension we told them we need a complete commitment on a capital construction plan and a recruitment strategy for nyc after the budget was done we came to a place with the doe and chancellor and they had an analysis for every district and every school three categories 1 they needed a small construction project simpler 2 large construction extension annex new building etc 3 program correctly said they can fix a few hundred schools just by helping programming just starting the construction projects now ny post says we shook them down for 20 million going in our members pockets didn t shake them down held them accountable they said the only way to get this done is to give a bunch of exemptions we said no we want it done correctly reorganization will be part of our school system for decades there are schools this year that if they did their capital plans would ve had their space done by now and they would ve gotten to 80 schools being used for space exemptions may be eligible for the differential as well as schools with funded positions who were unable to hire teachers due to recruitment problems if you re a teacher in a classroom with a hard to staff differential you may be eligible for the differential won t know until november 15 an exemption class helps move them toward 80 even though it s not in compliance those are classes eligible for differential differential for this year larger differential for next year i believe there s a meeting tomorrow with chancellor and principals once that meeting is over we expect everyone to get their budgets i d appreciate it if they say it s unacceptable there were years where budgets were not done until july and august but schools received preliminary budgets not done this year no budget no line how can we hire anyone they put us in a bad position not the way you want to start budgets out with less than two weeks left of school lots of emails about the chancellor we believe in due process we know that the procurement process at the doe is beyond broken it s a disgrace does not serve the school system the chancellor has been very supportive of us but due process is due process in this political environment who knows what s really going on i have to think about the working relationship he has with our union right now i d say he has a very good working relationship with us but we don t need any more distractions one big thing on agenda that has not been accomplished yet respect next two weeks are about budgets sbos coming in by the hundreds thanks cls the sbo process is off the chart next year s calendar is insane because of all of the holidays need to continue pressure on the respect check had a hearing today at city hall shout out to priscilla castro paraprofessional cl gave testimony in favor of respect check there is movement costing process almost finished but pressure has to remain we re all happy about the knicks the world cup they re building little bleachers everywhere huge ship armada coming in pushed back fleet week all happening inside of nyc need to keep pressure on for the respect check trs and para executive committee elections are done thanks tom brown and para execs get to work early voting starts saturday lots of contested elections all will be settled in next few weeks everything turns to midterm elections thankfully we get a little bit of a break retirees are very interested in politics one of the biggest strengths of our union certain things we need to get done in june in case of endorsements we bring executive board in no nefarious stuff going on midterms in november are clearly very important for us much at stake for public education also need to begin the process of negotiating a contract we will have the largest negotiation committee in our history hands down more than what s in this room by far almost 700 people will be on the negotiating committee notice will go out next week june 24 virtual welcome lay out the process all about educating ourselves educating new people on negotiation committee it s not a joke we will be sitting across the table from the city our strategy is that we want our members doing the work talking to them shame them because they have no idea what you do that s how we have in last two rounds of bargaining every contract has had changes in them not a single giveback no givebacks only positive changes you have to come up with your plan have to represent when we get paras done city can t use that against us in negotiations enough with having workers paying for other workers raises it becomes about educating everyone each one will come up with their own list of demands come to consensus that ll be fun with 700 people even in committees these are very important things educating and training people massive time commitment had a couple of instances in the past guide for committee comes from membership nobody can hijack the committee with an agenda we know what the number one issue is before surveys are sent out money first and foremost we d like to figure out a way for more vacation days city hates it might be a way it opens up maybe they look for something and we negotiate there are 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