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Ruis, Andrew R. " 'The Penny Lunch Has Spread Faster than the Measles': Children's Health and the Debate over School Lunches in New York City, 1908–1930." History of Education Quarterly 55.2 (2015): 190–217. online; Shelton, Jon. "Dropping Dead: Teachers, the New York City Fiscal Crisis, and Austerity" in Shelton, Teacher Strike!
New York: NY Committee for the Defense of Public Education, 1941. New York State Legislature, Report of the Sub-committee Relative to the Public Education System of the City of New York. New York Legislative Documents, 165th Session, vol. 10, no. 48, 1942. Ellen Schrecker, No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities.
Arranged is a 2007 American independent film produced by Cicala Filmworks, directed by Diane Crespo and Stefan Schaefer, and starring Zoe Lister-Jones and Francis Benhamou.It tells the story of the friendship between an Orthodox Jewish woman (Rochel) and a Muslim woman (Nasira), both of whom are teachers in New York City.
In contrast to other counties of New York, the powers of the five boroughs of New York City are very limited and in nearly all respects are governed by the city government. [4] Only a few officials are elected on a borough-wide basis, such as the five borough presidents , district attorneys, and all county and state supreme court judges.
He began his tenure as a union organizer in 1959 to help organize the Teacher's Guild, a New York City affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers that was founded by John Dewey in 1917. Eventually, the Teacher's Guild merged with New York City's High School Teacher's Association to form the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) in 1960 ...
On February 23, 1997, Ali Hassan Abu Kamal, a 69-year-old Palestinian teacher, opened fire on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in New York City.The gunman killed one person and wounded six others before taking his own life with a gunshot to the head.
Chester Dewey, first President. The New York State Teachers Association was organized at a teacher's convention on 30 July 1845 in Syracuse, New York. [1] After the convention had resolved itself into a State Teachers' Association a committee was set up to recommend officers, which decided on Chester Dewey (1784–1869) of Rochester as President. [2]
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools. As of 2005, there were about 118,000 in-service teachers and nearly 30,000 [2] paraprofessional educators in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members. In October 2007, 28,280 home day care providers voted to join ...