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Our Issues
As an education advocate, the UFT is involved in many of the most important debates and discussions affecting our schools and our city. Here is where we stand on some of the crucial current issues facing students, parents and educators.
Charter schools were originally conceived as innovative public schools, free from the bureaucracy of school districts and designed to nurture new...
The great promise of public education is that it is for all children, and a strong public education system has long been understood as...
The Department of Education wants to turn over to the media the names and highly debatable data on 4th- through 8th-grade English language arts...
To the union, teacher evaluation is primarily a professional activity, geared to improving teaching and student outcomes. The best evaluators, in...