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Michael Mulgrew is the president of the United Federation of Teachers, which represents 200,000 teachers, paraprofessionals, school secretaries, and other professional staff members in New York City public schools, along with home day-care providers, nurses, adult education instructors, and retirees. He spent 12 years as a classroom teacher at William E. Grady High School, in Brooklyn.

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