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In a major victory for the United Federation of Teachers, the New York State Court of Appeals ruled last Thursday that per-session pay must be included in the calculation of public school teachers' pensions. In recent years the New York City Board of Education has increasingly relied on after-school and summer school sessions outside of teachers' normal salaries, for which teachers are paid at an hourly rate of $33. Last year New York City teachers performed $232 million worth of per-session work for the School Board---double that spent only two years earlier.