The United Federation of Teachers is calling on the city and state to invest more than $1 billion in federal aid to help public school students. 

UFT has rolled out a five-point plan. Those points include: 

The UFT has also developed a professional development program to help educators respond to stress. 

"Let the people who teach children, let them lead the way in academic intervention, let the psychologists and social workers and guidance counselors guide us on what we need to do, if we need additional people to help with the clinical work, we need to have that in place now. We need the medical experts to tell us what schools should be looking like in September,” said UFT President Michael Mulgrew.