Administrative Bulletin 
Issue No. 2017-10
September 2017
To: Chief School Administrators, College and University Presidents, District Contacts, Employer Secure Area Contacts

Help Prepare Your Employees for Retirement;
Promote NYSTRS Consultations, PREP SeminarsAmong the many retirement planning tools offered by NYSTRS are personal benefit consultations and group seminars focused on retirement planning. Please encourage your employees to visit NYSTRS.org to review the 2017-18 Benefits Consultation and fall 2017 Pension & Retirement Education Program (PREP) schedules, and to book their appointments today. The schedules are accessible through the Retirement Planning page.

Chief school administrators, college and university presidents and school principals will soon receive by U.S. mail a limited number of promotional posters for display. Additional posters may be requested by calling (800) 348-7298, Ext. 6100.

Thank you for helping ensure your employees are properly prepared for retirement.
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Sal LaRocca, Financial Advisor from VOYA Financial Advisors will be visiting each of the 5 schools (Mepham, Calhoun, Kennedy, Merrick & Grand) in September. Please see the attached flyer for the dates, times, and other details.

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All BMUST Members:


Please see below and attached.


Mark

 

TO:       Local Presidents
FROM:  Matt Jacobs, Regional Staff Dir.
DATE:   May 23, 2017
RE:        NYSUT's ELT Offers Advanced
              Placement Training______________________
 
New York State United Teachers is sponsoring an Advanced Placement® Summer Institute July 17-20, 2017 in the Conference Center at NYSUT Headquarters, 800 Troy-Schenectady Road Latham, New York.  The Institute is designed for those new to AP® courses or experienced educators desiring new strategies and methods to improve their teaching.  Classes are held from 8 a.m. 4 p.m. 

Course offerings include: 
AP® Calculus AB
AP® English Literature and Composition  
AP® Environmental Science
AP® Statistics
AP® US History 
AP® World History 

The fee is $725 for 30 hours of inservice credit ($650 if you register prior to May 29).  Tuition fee includes course materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack each day.  

Cancellations must be received in writing by June 30, or the full registration fee will be charged.

For more information or to register, visit us at http://elt.nysut.org/professional-development/advanced-placement-summer-institute or call 800-528-6208.
Official fliers attached

NYSUT Education & Learning Trust (ELT)
800 Troy-Schenectady Road
Latham, NY  12110
800-528-6208
518-213-6456 (FAX)
www.elt.nysut.org 

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This month the Public Broadcasting System is showing a “documentary” that tells a one-sided story of school privatization as told by Libertarian Andrew Coulson. This three-hour broadcast, called  “School, Inc., “ airs nationwide in three PBS broadcasts.  It can be best described as anti-public education propaganda.
Write your email of protest here:
Andrew Coulson, who is now deceased, was the director of Cato’s Center for Educational Freedom from 2005 to 2015. The extremist positions of Cato include the belief that discrimination based on race, religion, gender and sexual orientation should not be outlawed because the right to discriminate is a personal freedom. They have also proposed the elimination of public education. The Cato Institute applauded the appointment of Betsy DeVos who shares their radical views.
The film was funded by extreme right-wing conservative foundations--the Rose Mary and Jack Anderson Foundation, the Prometheus Foundation and the Steve and Lana Hardy Foundation.
The Public Broadcasting System must hear from you. This cannot go unchallenged.Join us in insisting that PBS also broadcast Diane Ravitch's response to Education, Inc. and show the film, Backpack Full of Cash, which presents the counter-argument to Schools, Inc.


We need your help! Here is what you can do.
1. Write your email to PBS by going here. We make it simple.
2. Call PBS and register your complaint and ask that they broadcast Diane Ravitch's response to School, Inc. and the film, Backpack Full of Cash. Here is the number to call: 1-703-739-5000.
3. Contact your local station and ask them to do the same. If your station has not played the series, ask them not to. You can find your local station's number here. All PBS stations are independent.
Our democracy depends on public education and responsible, balanced journalism. Your voice must be heard. PBS cannot be allowed to become a propaganda machine for the extreme right.


Thanks for all you do.
Here is the link to the email to post.
https://wp.me/p3bR9v-2sM
Carol



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ew York State United Teachers is sponsoring an Advanced Placement® Summer Institute July 17-20, 2017 in the Conference Center at NYSUT Headquarters, 800 Troy-Schenectady Road Latham, New York.  The Institute is designed for those new to AP® courses or experienced educators desiring new strategies and methods to improve their teaching.  Classes are held from 8 a.m. 4 p.m. 

Course offerings include: 
AP® Calculus AB
AP® English Literature and Composition  
AP® Environmental Science
AP® Statistics
AP® US History 
AP® World History 

The fee is $725 for 30 hours of inservice credit ($650 if you register prior to May 29).  Tuition fee includes course materials, continental breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack each day.  

Cancellations must be received in writing by June 30, or the full registration fee will be charged.

For more information or to register, visit us at http://elt.nysut.org/professional-development/advanced-placement-summer-institute or call 800-528-6208.
Official fliers attached

NYSUT Education & Learning Trust (ELT)
800 Troy-Schenectady Road
Latham, NY  12110
800-528-6208
518-213-6456 (FAX)
www.elt.nysut.org ​

Below is a message form that came through the Long Island President's Council to be passed on to all BMUST Members. 
Forum: General discussion
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Title: Scholarship opportunity from CBTU
 
Good evening
I have attached a scholarship application from the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists. I am currently a member and Selena Durio sits as one of the trustees for this organization which represents NYSUT. Over the past three years all of the scholarships the organization has given out, which every union members child is eligible to apply for, have gone to the children of NYSUT members. I ask that you please forward this application to the members in your local.


Despite the name of the organization, the only prerequisite to apply for this scholarship is that at least one parent and be a union member. Thank you for your assistance. 
In unity,
Wayne