Sample Retirement Letter outline, drafted Dec 2014

As part of NYSUT's effort to help ensure our public schools are a safe haven for students and employees, the union is calling attention to a new tool in the war against bullying. 

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As you know, New York requires public school teachers and teaching assistants to be certified by the State Education Department. 

Everybody's on the radar in my world," said John Kelly, community educator of the Saratoga office of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. 

AFT-Wisconsin President Kim Kohlhaas, a teacher in the Superior School District, issued the following statement today in response to Scott Walker's announcement that he is ending his presidential campaign:

"Today marks the end of Scott Walker's illusions that the American people want to buy what he's selling.  AFT-Wisconsin members and other working Wisconsinites have been getting the word out about the damage that Walker has done to this state...

The membership of the Retired – United Teachers of Northport marked the beginning of another school year with the Annual Picnic at the beautiful Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport. The weather was perfect, the location was beautiful, the food was delicious, and everyone had a wonderful time catching up with friends and former colleagues.

When: Monday, Oct. 5th, 2015
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Where: Old Courthoust, 400 Washington Ave., Towson, MD
Chesapeake Ave. entrance, across from County Office Bldg

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The "NTU... Teach for a Cure" team has been registered for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk on Broad Street on 10/18/2015. In honor of those who are battling, who have survived and who we have lost.

September is Sepsis Awareness Month, and as part of a campaign to educate people about the condition, the Rory Staunton Foundation held its second annual National Forum in Washington, D.C., Sept. 16. 

Randi Weingarten, who took part in the event, let the crowd know that the AFT—which co-sponsored the forum— is working to build awareness of sepsis. "We have to make sure that there is more awareness in every place where we are—whether it's in prekindergarten-12 education or in states where we represent the majority of RNs who are organized. We have to raise the issue, and we have to talk about it."

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