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A list of bargaining goals distributed to union delegates at a meeting on Wednesday night offers the first real glimpse of what the UFT hopes to gain from its upcoming contact talks.

Though delegates and chapter leaders were told not give the document to the press, one kind teacher sent me the list today, and it’s worth a read. As reported in the Daily News, the first goal on the agenda is a “substantial salary increase in each year of the agreement,” though it does not say how much. Another item of note is a proposed teacher apprenticeship program, which may be the result of the agreement the city and UFT reached concerning parent-paid teaching assistants.

The document also calls for an end to the way schools currently receive their funding. (more…)