Calling all educators! 📞 NEA is looking for the next great design🖌️🖼️ to inspire people to vote in the 2024 election 🗳️✅. The prize for the top winner is $2,500! 💥NEA #GOTV NYSUT #PublicSchoolsUniteUs  
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At this year’s #NYSUTRA , we highlighted the work of our social justice department. Grounded in NYSUT’s values of social justice being at the heart of unionism,our Social Justice Academy came together this year to promote racial justice within our schools, locals and communities.

May marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark ruling Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The 1954 Supreme Court case unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Listen to my latest commentary @wamcradio about the effects of segregation

Mannion is a fighter 🤜🌟🤛 and proven problem-solver. He’s fighting for our public schools 🍎 in Albany and he’ll fight just as hard in Washington. @NYSUT John Mannion for NY 
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It’s May, which means it’s a great time to talk Labor History Month. But, the thing is, every day, our union and its members are creating history. *You* are labor history. Every day, the work you do as an educator and union member is history-making, so this month celebrates YOU!

Book challenges are on the rise nationally and in New York as part of a coordinated, well-funded attack on public education — but our members are fighting back and protecting students’ freedom to learn.

“The announcement of program cuts at SUNY Buffalo State University is yet more proof that SUNY Chancellor John King Jr. is attempting to systematically shrink SUNY by cutting important academic programs and associated faculty and staff at campuses across the state.”

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Last week, we hit up the state Capitol to share an experience that is unfortunately common to so many of our students and educators in the early fall and late spring: overheating classrooms.

Join our fight: nysut.org/heat

Once again, communities across NY made it clear that they support investing in our students, educators and schools.

On Tuesday, voters came out in overwhelming support of their school budgets and union-endorsed candidates to school boards.

Learn more: nysut.org/news/2024/may/…

Full house at the Yonkers City Council Public hearing on Wednesday! So proud of our members, parents and community members standing up for our children and our jobs! #FundYonkersSchools Yonkers Federation Of Teachers NYSUT AFT