In 2007, Governor Spitzer signed into law a bill creating a permanent School-Related Professionals Recognition Day on the state calendar. SRP Recognition Day falls on the third Tuesday of each November, often during American Education Week.

NYSUT's 90,000+ SRP members perform a variety of key roles in schools, working as bus drivers, school nurses, custodians, secretaries, food service workers, teaching assistants and aides and in dozens of other job titles. 

 

I encourage members to recognize all our SRPs at Herricks on Tues., Nov. 18th for the valuable work they do to help our students each and

 

A neighboring local's president was kind enough to share the following, "I was looking online for something and stumbled upon this unclaimed funds/abandoned accounts search engine on the NYSTRS website.  I found three former members names on the list."

 

In looking at the site, I also saw some names associated with Herricks. The link to this site is:

 

 

While you are at it you may also wish to check out Tom DiNapoli's site for unclaimed funds.  

 

May you, your family and your friends seek and prosper.

 

In unity,

Nidya

 

 

 

If you are thinking of retiring within the next few years, please join us for a Retirement Seminar for all HTA Members.

 

      On:   Wed.,October 29th

       At:  4:00 p.m. in the Community Center Auditorium

 

This informative meeting will address insurance questions and provide members with an open forum for asking questions.

If you haven't heard, Time magazine's November 3 cover is both misleading and insulting, categorizing educators as "Rotten Apples."  This weekend, we have been raining a Twitterstorm down on them and have been actively signing a petition against this anti-teacher, anti-tenure display.  You may know that there's a big nationwide push (more than 45,000 responses as of yesterday) against Time's cover (already available online).    Will this sell upcoming issues of Time?  Possibly.  Should our educators give voice to this horrific cover?  Definitely.