More than 30 UFT members attended the March 28 UFT Welfare Fund Medical Learning Series seminar entitled “The Aging Eye” at UFT headquarters to hear doctors from the NYU Ophthalmology Center in Manhattan discuss vision ailments and their treatments.

A creative math workshop reached back to the antebellum South to make its point about how math is related to our daily lives.

Transit Tech Career and Technical Education HS in East New York, Brooklyn, celebrated the official reopening of its Teacher Center with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Kim Hinds-Price, a Transit Tech teacher and the Teacher Center coordinator, said the...

“From four-year-olds to grandmothers, they learned in the morning, got into teams, decided what service could be provided or problem solved, made an app, honed their presentations and presented on stage to judges,” says Community School Director Kate...

The UFT Bronx borough office welcomed nearly 1,700 students, parents, teachers and guidance counselors on March 31 to a college fair that featured admissions recruiters from more than 100 institutions.

A recent arbitration settlement both protects members’ contractual rights and will create a new opportunity for high school teachers to work with a maximum of eight students per school year for targeted credit recovery in lieu of their Circular 6...

At the Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies, policies designed to foster mutual respect and cultivate empathy among students of different backgrounds paved the way for practices specific to the needs of transgender people.

School funding in Kansas was decimated after Sam Brownback became governor in 2011 and started slashing taxes. But the state court is demanding changes.

Getting more men involved in their children’s public school education was the impetus for the UFT’s second annual Men in Education Symposium, which drew 100 men to union headquarters on March 25.

Longtime UFT member Andrew Pallotta was elected to a three-year term as president of New York State United Teachers, the UFT’s state affiliate, at its annual Representative Assembly in April. 
It marks the first time in NYSUT’s 45-year history that a...