Michael Mulgrew
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MICHAEL MULGREW was elected President of the UFT in July 2009. Prior to his current position, Michael was elected Vice President for Career and Technical Education (CTE) High Schools in 2005 and became the union’s Chief Operating Officer in 2008.

Mulgrew, 44, began teaching as a substitute working with special needs students. He became a full-time teacher at the William E. Grady High School in 1993 and served as Grady’s UFT chapter leader from 1999 to 2004.

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Fairness for All

Posted April 22, 2010 | 18:14:24 (EST)

By Michael Mulgrew
President, United Federation of Teachers

Charter schools can play an important role in public education.

There is a certain irony in the fact that one of the giants of the UFT's history, our former president Albert Shanker, was one of the originators of the idea...

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Closing the Rubber Rooms

Posted April 15, 2010 | 19:43:53 (EST)

Rubber rooms, where New York City teachers can sit for years while being investigated or while going through a hearing process, don't work for anyone. They don't work for schools, students or teachers.

Fixing this problem has been a high priority for me ever since I became President of the...

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