- Who We Are
- Where We Stand
- Our Rights
- Our Benefits
- Our Chapters
- Guidance Counselors
- Hearing Education Services
- Lab Specialists
- Occupational / Physical Therapists
- Paraprofessionals
- Retired Teachers
- School Nurses
- School Secretaries
- Social Workers & Psychologists
- Speech Improvement
- Supervisors of Nurses & Therapists
- Teachers Assigned
- Other DOE Chapters
- Charter School Chapters
- Non-DOE Education Chapters
- UFT Providers
- Federation of Nurses
- United Cerebral Palsy
- Get Involved
- Teaching
- News
Topics in the News:
our schools
Teacher Tricia Moses' colleagues at PS 233 in Brooklyn threw a surprise fundraiser to help defray medical expenses for Moses, who is awaiting a lung transplant.
Thanks to the HiArt! studio, young students from PS 30 in East Harlem have the opportunity to create artwork, explore movement, language and music, and visit galleries and museums all over the city.
To hang your work in the East Side Community HS art show, which opened on April 26, it didn’t matter if you were a student, art teacher, parent, custodian, principal or volleyball coach.
Like many handmade quilts, the one created by students at PS/MS 34 in Manhattan tells a story: not of prairie harvests or mountain weddings but of an urban tragedy that happened on Sept. 11, 2001.
Students and staff at MS 202 and Goddard HS can tell you just how much the change in color in their shared-space school has lifted spirits. The Ozone Park school is one of 155 schools across the city that have been repainted by students under the guidance of the nonprofit organization Publicolor.
Three Manhattan schools may be torn down and rebuilt in the base of luxury high rises as the city seeks to profit from the land rights of public buildings.
Every school should have a Teacher Center and now PS 67, a pre-K–to–5 school in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene, celebrated the official opening of its new Teacher Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 9.
After spending five years in two run-down buildings that were three blocks apart, students at the Community Health Academy of the Heights in Manhattan finally celebrated the official opening of their new, $52 million red-brick school.
The field next to Richmond Hill HS in Queens doesn’t have a baseball diamond or soccer goal posts. Instead, it is cluttered with 22 trailers in which approximately 600 students from the overcrowded school have class. The existence of the trailers, which the DOE has been promising for years to replace with an annex, is just one of the many examples of the DOE’s neglect at Richmond Hill.
Along with the Babylonians, Archimedes, Ptolemy and Albert Einstein, students at MS 127 in the Bronx can get obsessive about the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. That’s because teacher Patricia Hazell makes sure that her promise to students — that they can grasp this math concept — is not just pi in the sky.
In the main competition of the New York City First Science and Technology Celebration this year, school teams had six weeks to design, build and program robots to remotely maneuver around an enclosed field, playing ultimate Frisbee and climbing a jungle gym.
More than 400 students and parents filed into the auditorium at PS 75 in Manhattan on the night of March 1 to honor the contributions that African-Americans have made to our city and nation.
At an early-morning visit to PS 272 in Canarsie on Feb. 27, UFT President Michael Mulgrew had a chance to share his perspective on the latest union news and learn about the strategies that led the Brooklyn school to move from an F to a B on its most recent school progress report.
Wanting to do something special for the children of PS 38, which took a pounding from Hurricane Sandy, the staff of the UFT borough office on Staten Island organized a bowling and pizza party.
Science and art combined to enhance the weeklong science fair at PS 119 in the Bronx.
The only thing missing was the United States Marine Corps Band and the Capitol Dome. Otherwise, Inauguration Day at PS 181 in the Bronx on Jan. 25 had much of the same pomp and circumstance as the swearing-in of President Obama four days earlier in Washington, D.C.
Children and teachers at PS 185 in Manhattan were thrilled when the Lego Lab officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
PS 53 was built in 1912 and the rest is history. Commemorating that piece of Bronxicana, dozens of people honored the school at a centennial celebration.
The teachers at Alfred E. Smith CTE HS always knew that their school was a gem. But with the threat of school closure looming, they redoubled their efforts to improve the academic performance of students who were serious about learning a trade but may not always have seen the need for their equally important academic subjects.
The heartbreak and heroism of the teachers of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., were on the minds of every New York City teacher as the 1.1 million children they care for each day returned to class on Monday morning.
Resources for: