NTU Updates | Newark Teachers Union

This morning, on Facebook Live the NTU hosted the NBOE Offices of Special Education and Student Services in a Town Hall to address upcoming changes to these programs and to answer staff and student questions. The video is posted on our Facebook Page and YouTube Channel. We will be continuing to add content like this throughout the school year, so follow us on Facebook and Subscribe on YouTube to ensure you have the most up to date information!

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Inside This issue (click for update):

1) Payroll Update

2) Evaluation Update

3) Social

NTU Update - August 28, 2020

IMPORTANT SURVEY! For staff who are doing remote learning, we are looking to find out if you will be working from home, school, or a combination of both. Click here for a quick one question survey Thank you!

https://forms.gle/FL2c1YxTM3jERoXT6

Member rights during COVID - Click here for some important resources regarding your rights to child care leaves, FMLA, and 504 Accomodations!

Inside this week's update (click here to read)

1) Welcome Back

2) Important Payroll information

3) Loan Forgiveness

4) NTU Parent Guide to Google CLassroom

AND MORE!

NTU Update - August 14, 2020

Dear Members:

As previously shared with you, the American Federation of Teachers sits on the statewide reopening committee. NTU sits on the local version. We have long pushed for and can now confirm that the decision of when to close a classroom, a school building or an entire district will not be solely a local decision. If one or two students or teachers is diagnosed with the coronavirus in a New Jersey classroom, everyone he or she came close to at school could be asked to stay home for 14 days, according to new state guidelines. But if two people in different classrooms have confirmed

Informal Roster Survey FAQ's

Colleagues,

Make sure you fill out the district's Informat Survey of NTU Staff. This will help the district determine what will happen throughout the rest of the school year.

The question on the survey is:

I plan on returning to in-person (hybrid model) instruction at my location in January.

Whether you say yes or no, you should still fill out the comment section to explain your concerns! This comment section goes a long way to dictating what the rest of the school year will look like.

If you say no, you will be provided with some options. We wanted to provide some additional info on these

NTU Update - July 31, 2020

1) COVID/Reopening Updates

2) Updated Tuition Reimbursement Form

3) Distance Learning Library

AND MORE!