UFT President Michael Mulgrew joined the mayor and the schools chancellor on Jan. 17 to announce that a record number of New York City public school students took and passed Advanced Placement exams in the prior school year.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed funding more than 38,000 new public school seats in his preliminary budget for the coming fiscal year.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed a $1 billion increase in state aid to public schools while proposing a change to the formula used to distribute education aid statewide. The governor also said he wants to keep the millionaire’s tax.

Workplace stress is on the rise. That is bad news, as we now know that stress can cause or exacerbate disease.

A senior supervisor to 60 school-based physical therapists in the Bronx, Catherine Cirillo inspires in her team something bosses rarely receive: respect and loyalty.

Are graduate students who work 20 to 30 hours a week teaching and doing related tasks employees of the university or simply students? That is the question at the heart of the current conflict between Columbia University graduate assistants who are...

Wytrice Harris, a parent of two Detroit Public School students, saw firsthand the havoc that Bety DeVos' "school choice" agenda wreaked on schools.

“Charter advocates spin the tale that you can shoehorn charter schools into public school buildings without any repercussions for the children and staff already in those buildings,” said UFT President Michael Mulgrew. “It’s far from the truth.”

Even as student collaboration and group work are embraced in the modern classroom, some teachers are exploring the idea of redefining introversion as a source of strength.

Outside the Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies, the words “boy” and “girl” are carved in stone above two entrances. But for many who pass beneath those signs, gender isn’t that simple.