When record rainfall caused serious flooding in New York City on Sept. 29, city officials were caught off guard and then botched communication with schools about how to deal with it. There are much better ways to deal with a significant weather event...

Dial-A-Teacher, the UFT’s free homework helpline, is back with a new focus for its 43rd year: helping asylum-seeking students.
The helpline, which fields about 40,000 calls a year, offers K-12 students and their parents live homework support from...

At the first Delegate Assembly of the school year on Oct. 11, UFT President Michael Mulgrew stressed the importance of making sure all parts of the new DOE-UFT contract get implemented.


I would like to thank the UFT for the tribute to my late husband, Barry Spielvogel, on the UFT Honors website.

Response to the UFT giving out 40,000 books at PS 154 in Harlem on Sept. 23: In a world where so many places are trying to ban books, it’s beautiful to see us giving them away.

Responses to the Learning Curve column on reimagining homework assignments in the June 15 issue of the New York Teacher.

As a retiree (still can’t believe I’m saying that — I sang at a nursing home and was older than a few there), I just wanted to congratulate the union on its well-deserved contract gains. We are all a part of a big family of educators and dedicated...

I attended the UFT’s Future in Focus career fair on Oct. 17 with 30 students from Beacon HS. At the fair, there was a wide array of unions represented at different tables. The students were able to ask questions about different unionized career paths...

The class trip for 1st-graders at PS 234 in Manhattan to Battery Urban Farm in lower Manhattan was a feast for the senses. The Battery Conservancy created Battery Urban Farm to teach students, residents and visitors about sustainable farming and...

Art teacher Dan Wever said he ran for chapter leader at Sunset Park HS in Brooklyn in 2021 knowing that at some point the union chapter would have to organize to demand the removal of the school’s longtime principal, Victoria Antonini.
 Less than two...