Under Assault: teaching in NYC: NY Health Act

Campaign for New York Health

MOST RECENT BILLS . . .

July 7, 2023 “An act to amend the public health law and the state finance law, in relation to enacting the ‘New York health act’ and establishing New York Health” (S7590) – by Sens. Rivera et al., referred to Health; this version was amended to gain labor union support (see this post at City&State)

33 co-sponsors, all Democrats
Summary: Establishes the New York Health program, a comprehensive system of access to health insurance for New York state residents; provides for administrative structure of the plan; provides for powers and duties of the board of trustees, the scope of benefits, payment methodologies and care coordination; establishes the New York Health Trust Fund which would hold monies from a variety of sources to be used solely to finance the plan
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S7590

July 19, 2023 “An act to amend the public health law ...” (A7897) [same as S7590] – Assemblywoman Paulin et al., referred to Health

68 co-sponsors
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A7897

EARLIER VERSIONS . . .

2021-2022: A6058, S5474 ç referred to committees
2019-2020: A5248, S3577 – referred to Health committees
2017-2018: A4738, S4371, S4840 – passed the Assembly, referred to Senate Health
2015-2016: A5062, S3525 – passed the Assembly, referred to Senate Health

The author of this blog

UA retired from teaching after 24 years, having built more than a couple of dozen school choruses and conducted them in well over 100 concerts. Her absences have been infrequent, her ratings satisfactory, and she teaches with enthusiasm. In some years, up to 450 students have passed through her classroom each school year.

UA was a musicologist before she became a teacher and held the position of senior staff editor on the world's largest and most comprehensive encyclopedia of music (The New Grove Dictionary of Music, 29 vols.). She is known for her scholarly work on some of the longest (and most tedious) bibliographical articles in the main work and the subsequent offshoot reference books. She also trained as a coloratura in New York, London and Italy, and has a working knowledge of several other languages.

After a flirtation with rumba and tango, UA wrote a play on ballroom partner dancing called Real Changes, which makes side trips into Zen, intellectualism/eroticism, tragedy/comedy, a parody of Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost, Nietzsche's early works, and nirvana. (She is still not clear which of these should dominate the psyche, but is happy to have spent four years trying to find out.

Before her recent retirement, UA thought she could pass the remaining years of her career in relative calm. But this was not to be. She was excessed for the second time in her career and was for a year and a half a sub, or in the vernacular, an ATR. A successful grievance restored her to a position, but a principal has many ways to keep someone squirming. Teaching fully out of license was one of them, during which time she lost her desire to teach at all.

It is very hard to tell whether she was excessed in that period because her subject is music (which is not particularly respected in this school system), or because she was becoming too old, too expensive, or too ... "vocal."

Under Assault: teaching in NYC

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