There is a new certification process in New York state including three new exams. Have you taken the EAS, ALST or the edTPA? Tell the State Education Department and Regents what your experience has been with these exams and with the new certification processes(for example, testing site issues, taking computer based tests, using the TEACH portal, completing required workshops, etc).
Statements will be collected and forwarded to SED Commissioner John King and Members of the Board of Regents.
Thank you for supporting future teachers!
NOTE: Your personal story is the most effective message.
Delete the text in brackets and use your own words to describe your experiences with the edTPA and recommend solutions. Thank you!
NYSUT is your union. And to ensure that you are getting the services and support you need as a professional in education, human services and health care, we need to hear from you.
Please take some time to let us know what you want from your union. Make your voice heard. We're listening.
NYSUT is proud to represent so many outstanding health care professionals. During the week of May 6, we are especially honored to be able to recognize the wonderful work of the nurses in the NYSUT family - those in our schools, on campuses, in health care facilities and in the community - who provide care and compassion to our families, friends, colleagues and neighbors.
Help us celebrate National Nurses Week 2014; send a message, tell a story about a nurse who made a difference for you or someone in your family, or just say "thanks" to these dedicated caregivers.
Tell the State Education Department and Regents to suspend the high-stakes consequences on the edTPA - a new performance assessment for future teachers.
NOTE: Your personal story is the most effective message.
Delete the text in brackets and use your own words to describe your experiences with the edTPA, and recommend solutions. Thank you!
There is a new certification process in New York state - including three new exams. Have you taken the EAS, ALST or the edTPA? Do you work with or stand in support of someone who has?
We're looking for feedback from students, parents, faculty, staff and others who stand in support of future teachers. Tell us about your experience with these exams and with the new certification processes (for example, testing site issues, taking computer based tests, using the TEACH portal, completing required workshops, etc).
Your personal story is the most effective message. Use your own words to describe your experiences with the new certification process and recommend solutions. Thank you!
Devote time and resources to getting evaluations and common core right!
At every opportunity, NYSUT reiterates this message to education policymakers. Now you can add your individual voice about your students, school, district or campus.
Calling NYSUT members: Use this NYSUT-developed email form to speak up and speak out to the State Education Commissioner and Board of Regents. Tell them:
How current teaching and learning conditions and obsession with testing impacts your students' success.
What needs to be done to get student assessment and teacher evaluation right.
Share your solutions from the front lines of education!
NOTE: This letter contains sample language. Please delete the text in brackets and use your own words 1) to describe the impact on students and 2) to recommend solutions. Thank you!
This is a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo asking him to appropriate more state funding to SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which will help save vital health care services and jobs.
State Education Commissioner John King’s dictatorial tactics are blocking millions in federal School Improvement Grants from reaching local schools and depriving some of our neediest students of tutoring, AP classes, and other help they need to succeed in school. As advocates for students, we urge you to stand up on behalf of our children.
E-mail the state Board of Regents today and urge them to do what's right. They must tell Commissioner King and the State Education Department to stop playing political games and fund the educational support our students need and deserve.
Send an online letter to NY legislators urging them to reject NYSUNY 2020, a plan that would make SUNY unaffordable for many working families by allowing SUNY's four University Centers to charge differential tuition. So far, Stony Brook and the University at Buffalo have introduced plans that would allow them to use higher tuition revenues to fund construction projects. Tell your family and friends.
It’s not too late to save SUNY from devastating budget cuts.
Please sign our new online letter urging NY legislators to
restore state budget cuts to SUNY campuses and hospitals
in a supplemental state budget. Tell your family and friends.
It’s not too late to save SUNY from devastating budget cuts.
Please sign our new online letter urging NY legislators to
restore state budget cuts to SUNY campuses and hospitals
in a supplemental state budget. Tell your family and friends.
TAKE ACTION! Tell your legislator that SUNY flexibility proposals in the governor's budget, such as removing legislative approval of public/private partnerships and the long-term lease of campus property, are a bad idea for the SUNY system.
TAKE ACTION! The governor's 2011-12 Executive Budget proposal eliminates the state's subsidy to SUNY's teaching hospitals. This subsidy provides funding for treating the state's uninsured, underinsured, and indigent populations - a critical part of the hospital's mission. In addition, SUNY's teaching hospitals and health science centers provide cutting edge research and educate the next generation of doctors, nurses and other health care providers. Tell your legislator that this subsidy must be restored.
TAKE ACTION! In the past three years, SUNY has been cut by over $585 million. The governor's 2011-2012 Executive Budget proposal cuts it again by an additional $100 million. The consequences of these cuts are evidenced by swelling class sizes, shrinking class offerings, and delayed graduations. Tell the state Legislature to protect public higher education by preserving state funding for SUNY.
TAKE ACTION! In the past three years, SUNY has been cut by over $585 million. The governor's 2011-2012 Executive Budget proposal cuts it again by an additional $100 million. The consequences of these cuts are evidenced by swelling class sizes, shrinking class offerings, and delayed graduations. Tell the state Legislature to protect public higher education by preserving state funding for SUNY.
TAKE ACTION! The governor's 2011-12 Executive Budget proposal eliminates the state's subsidy to SUNY's teaching hospitals. This subsidy provides funding for treating the state's uninsured, underinsured, and indigent populations - a critical part of the hospital's mission. In addition, SUNY's teaching hospitals and health science centers provide cutting edge research and educate the next generation of doctors, nurses and other health care providers. Tell your legislator that this subsidy must be restored.
TAKE ACTION! Tell your legislator that SUNY flexibility proposals in the governor's budget, such as removing legislative approval of public/private partnerships and the long-term lease of campus property, are a bad idea for the SUNY system.
TAKE ACTION! In the past two years, Governor Paterson has reduced state funding for SUNY's state-operated campuses six times. The consequences of these cuts are evidenced by swelling class sizes and shrinking class offerings. At SUNY Albany, President Philip has decided to suspend admission to five humanities programs. Tell the state Legislature to protect public higher education by preserving state funding for SUNY!
TAKE ACTION! In the past two years, Governor Paterson has reduced State funding for SUNY's state-operated campuses six times. The consequences of these cuts are evidenced by swelling class sizes, shrinking class offerings and even the closing of programs and majors. Tell the state legislature to protect public higher education by preserving state funding for SUNY!
TAKE ACTION! In the past two years, Governor Paterson has reduced State funding for SUNY's state-operated campuses six times. The consequences of these cuts are evidenced by swelling class sizes, shrinking class offerings and even the closing of programs and majors. Tell the state legislature to protect public higher education by preserving state funding for SUNY!
Violence against women (and increasingly, men as well) continues to be rampant. We hear the horror stories of our own members who have been beaten and killed by their husbands or boyfriends. We see it in our classrooms as students who have witnessed violence at home or even been victims themselves often repeat the cycle of abuse in their interactions with classmates and educators. We see it in our workplace and wonder what we can do to help.
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is a time to express our opposition to violence used against any person. NYSUT is participating in the Nov. 25 international recognition to acknowledge that women and girls are overwhelmingly the victims of violence here and around the world.
When you click the “sign petition” button of the online Pledge to Eliminate Violence Against Women, the NYSUT Civil & Human Rights Committee will use your “signature” for several purposes:
You will be counted as one of millions around the world saying NO to violence against women;
Your information will be entered into an email database for updates on future NYSUT Social Justice activities, including our work to end violence against women; and
You will be part of the process that builds future NYSUT action and involvement in this and other issues.
TAKE ACTION! Protect SUNY and keep our public higher education institutions accessible for all of our citizens by maintaining the Southampton campus at Stony Brook.
TAKE ACTION! Protect SUNY and keep our public higher education institutions accessible for all of our citizens by maintaining the Southampton campus at Stony Brook.
TAKE ACTION! The New York State Theatre Institute provides an invaluable service to the citizens of New York. Urge your representatives in Albany to keep the educational programs of NYSTI available to all by maintaining its public status and restore full state funding.
TAKE ACTION! Keep New York's public health care institutions accessible for all our citizens. Urge your representatives in Albany to add $74.5 million to the state subsidy for SUNY hospitals and health care centers and reject the proposed Medicaid cuts.
TAKE ACTION! The proposed act would give SUNY blanket authority to raise tuition and impose differential tuition without legislative approval; eliminate the requirement for state appropriation of tuition and other SUNY revenues; and permit the University to lease campus properties, and enter into contracts and variations of public/private partnerships with limited legislative oversight. This would clearly shift the burden of funding SUNY's academic programs from the state to students and their families.
TAKE ACTION! Keep our public higher education institutions accessible for all of our citizens. Urge your representatives in Albany to restore Governor Paterson's $118 million cut to SUNY.
TAKE ACTION! The New York State Theatre Institute provides an invaluable service to the citizens of New York. Urge your representatives in Albany to keep the educational programs of NYSTI available to all by maintaining its public status and restore full state funding.
TAKE ACTION! Keep New York's public health care institutions accessible for all our citizens. Urge your representatives in Albany to add $74.5 million to the state subsidy for SUNY hospitals and health care centers and reject the proposed Medicaid cuts.
TAKE ACTION! The proposed act would give SUNY blanket authority to raise tuition and impose differential tuition without legislative approval; eliminate the requirement for state appropriation of tuition and other SUNY revenues; and permit the University to lease campus properties, and enter into contracts and variations of public/private partnerships with limited legislative oversight. This would clearly shift the burden of funding SUNY's academic programs from the state to students and their families.
TAKE ACTION! Keep our public higher education institutions accessible for all of our citizens. Urge your representatives in Albany to restore Governor Paterson's $118 million cut to SUNY.
