Mulgrew visits PS 811, Queens
UFT President Michael Mulgrew met with staff at PS 811 in Queens on Jan. 22 to discuss various education and union issues and also checked in on members during a tour of the building.
Ruth Miller
Ruth Miller began teaching in the early 1940s and taught kindergarten at PS 79 in Whitestone, Queens, from the beginning of the 1950s until her retirement in 1987.
Sound initiative
As part of a speech literacy initiative launched by the Department of Education in 2014 in about 150 schools, Marjorie James pushes into the kindergarten Integrated Co-Teaching class at the East Elmhurst Community School three times a week and works...
Fast lane to COPE contributions
A UFT bowling event in Queens combined camaraderie with political activism through COPE.
Kudos to Anne Wine, PS 150, Queens
PS 150 Chapter Leader Anne Wine successfully went to bat for three probationary teachers in her Queens school who were being treated unfairly.
Your passport to earning
The Teachers’ Retirement System Passport Funds are diverse investment choices carefully designed to help TRS members who participate in the Tax-Deferred Annuity (TDA) Program save for retirement. Here is an overview of the funds that will be...
Queens Parent Conference 2019
The new UFT Queens borough office was decked out with colorful balloons and banners to welcome hundreds of Queens parents, grandparents, guardians and education activists for the 10th annual UFT Queens Parent Conference on Nov. 23.
Building self-esteem in Queens
Teachers and students at PS/IS 116 in Jamaica, Queens, worked together to beautify the school's girls' bathroom.
UFT wins Regents scoring grievance
An independent arbitrator has ruled in a precedent-setting decision that the Department of Education improperly denied retention rights to a teacher for Regents scoring in June on the grounds that she had not participated in scoring Regents the...
Go Pink 2019
UFT members across New York City dressed in pink on Oct. 16 to raise awareness about breast cancer.