The Monroe County Federation of Teachers has released a statement urging parents to be informed about this year's testing. You may read the entire statement here. The resolution can be found here.
We must always be on the lookout for education gimmicks, games and schemes.
Under merit pay, teachers would be pitted against one another in a high-stakes monetary game, encouraged to treat students and their education as playing cards in the race around the Monopoly board.
Take action now at the NYSUT Member Action Center to oppose any misguided merit pay scheme!
Any system that creates a competitive, rather than collaborative, school climate where students are viewed as part of the salary equation rather than as children who deserve the best possible education raises real concerns.
What makes sense is a career ladder program that provides extra pay for other assignments such as mentoring newer educators, earning advanced degrees or working in hard-to-staff schools.
Take action now at the NYSUT Member Action Center to oppose any misguided merit pay scheme!
Help us oppose any merit pay gimmick and send a message loud and clear that it's time for solutions, not more schemes.
In solidarity, 
Andrew Pallotta
NYSUT Executive Vice President
P.S.: Education is collaboration, not competition! Help us stop any merit pay scheme!
CDC issues new K-12 guidelines for the fall
Thank you to our members!
This year, NYSUT members overcame obstacles they had never faced before. Your sisters and brothers in the statewide union applaud you for working together to stand up to the challenge of COVID-19. In this video, we thank you for rising above and beyond!
No time to let down our guard
Patience—counseled by former Vice President Joe Biden all election week as Americans waited for votes to be counted—finally paid off Nov. 7, four days after Election Day, when Biden won in Pennsylvania and gained enough Electoral College votes to acquire a new title: president-elect. AFT President Randi Weingarten says the union’s leaders and members “can’t wait to get started” on the work ahead “with an administration that will embrace and fight for the values we hold dear.”
