New Utrecht HS history teacher and UFT delegate Mark Treyger has won the three-way Democratic primary for the City Council seat in the 47th Council District in south Brooklyn.

The UFT has its last scheduled fact-finding hearing for a new contract on Nov. 4.

Six New York City public schools were designated 2013 National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education.

Four UFT members were among those cited as “Hometown Heroes in Education” by the New York Daily News on Sept. 19 for outstanding service to their students, schools and communities.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said that it was time to unite behind Bill de Blasio for mayor, after Bill Thompson, in a press conference on the City Hall steps this morning, asked all of his supporters to do so.

Bill Thompson, the UFT’s endorsed candidate for mayor, vowed on Sept. 10 to stay in the race until all the absentee and affidavit ballots are counted after coming in second in the Democratic Primary.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew stood on Sept. 9 with Bill Thompson, the union’s choice to lead New York City, at a campaign rally on the steps of City Hall to underscore the importance of getting out the vote the next day.

In the weeks leading up to the Democratic Primary on Sept. 10, the UFT has pulled out all the stops in its campaign to make sure that Bill Thompson will be elected the next mayor of New York.

The weekly “Moral Monday” protests in North Carolina against a spate of conservative legislation show no sign of abating and have led to about 930 arrests so far this year. One recent demonstration in Charlotte in late August drew some 2,000 people.

New filings in a major special education lawsuit allege that New Orleans schools have ongoing problems in meeting the educational needs of students with disabilities. The filings this summer come nearly three years after the suit was initially filed by students’ families and almost eight years into a nationally unprecedented decentralization of the city’s school system.