The Los Angeles Board of Education has approved a resolution to limit where charter schools can rent on-campus classroom space from the district. 
As a result, about one-third of the district — 350 campuses — could become exempt from future space...

With more than 20,000 asylum-seeking children now enrolled in New York City public schools, the UFT was able to negotiate a new incentive program and certification changes in an effort to expand the number of bilingual education and English as a New...

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed state legislation at UFT headquarters on Sept. 6 to spur teacher recruitment, with a focus on increasing diversity, across the state. The state needs about 180,000 teachers in the next decade to meet workforce needs, she said...

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.


About half of New York City’s 3rd- to 8th-grade students are proficient in math and reading, according to the scores on the spring 2023 state tests.

Information about 55 minutes for remote work, repurposed time and hours, student services managers and suspensions.

If you are the designated liaison for your school's Child Abuse Prevention and Intervention Team, you're required to attend virtual training by Friday, Oct. 20 .

A new city Office of Healthcare Accountability will force all New York City hospitals to disclose what they charge for medical procedures and make it harder for them to engage in price gouging.

As part of its contract negotiations with the UFT, the DOE revised the 2023-24 school year calendar in late June to add four more days off for students and educators and issued calendars for the following two school years at the same time.