Profiles of prominent union leaders and members

The UFT Welfare Fund’s Health and Cancer Helpline is available in your time of need through our free and confidential telehealth services for UFT Welfare Fund members and their dependents who may be diagnosed with a major medical or mental illness...

Each year at the beginning of March, eligible retired members receive a partial reimbursement from the UFT Welfare Fund for the cost of an optional drug rider that provides prescription coverage from their insurance carrier.

The UFT Welfare Fund Legal Plan with its Elder Law Supplement helps and protects all retired members and their spouses or domestic partners.

Guide to Medicare Part D

Supplemental Benefits are benefits provided by the UFT Welfare Fund that add to specific City basic health plans.

Depending upon your situation, there are many different ways to continue your coverage.

All eligible members and dependents, as defined in the General Information section of the Green or Red Apple guide are covered for a hearing aid benefit.

In‑service UFT Welfare Fund‑eligible members employed by the DOE have the protection of a short-term disability benefit that provides valuable income when personal illness renders them temporarily unable to work and they are on an approved leave...

All eligible in-service UFT members and their dependents have prescription drug coverage through the UFT Welfare Fund. There are no waiting periods for this coverage.

The plan provides for a benefit to the beneficiary of the in-service member.

As a member of the UFT Welfare Fund, you and your covered dependents are entitled to an eye exam, and eyeglasses or contact lenses.

The UFT Welfare Fund provides dental benefits through two programs: the Scheduled Benefit Plan, which provides services through the Welfare Fund panel of dentists or a dentist of your choice; and Dentcare, a no-cost dental HMO.

The union contract empowers us as UFT members to do our jobs well. It includes articles and rights whose sole aim is to ensure that we have the resources, support and structures in place to do our best to educate children or assist patients. A...

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When you join the United Federation of Teachers, you become a vital part of a union with a long and proud history of protecting members’ rights. The UFT is here to help you in your career, whether you have a specific issue to resolve or seek broader...

OT/PT salary schedule (2022–27)

Find important information about the health benefits the UFT Welfare Fund provides for its retired members.

As a UFT-represented employee, you are entitled to premium-free health insurance and an array of UFT Welfare Fund-administered supplemental health benefits that include prescription drugs, dental care, optical coverage and more. If you have any...

Below is an alphabetical list of member rights. Click on the topic to view an easy-to-follow explanation of that right with links to additional resources and/or contract language.

The UFT collaborates with thousands of parents and parent organizations citywide to help ensure that their children and all New York City students feel welcome and have access to the high-quality education they deserve.

The UFT offers an array of programs to meet its members' needs.

Are you concerned about paying back your student loans? The Student Debt Relief Program, brought to you by the UFT, is here to help.

The UFT Welfare Fund has expanded our relationship with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) to offer NYC public school professionals access to the Talking with Children About Cancer program.

Students in special classes participate in the general education curriculum, with accommodations and supports, unless otherwise specified on their IEPs.

Students with disabilities are grouped for special class services based on similarity of educational needs.

With the exception of students in special classes with a staffing ratio of 12:1:4, the chronological age range within special classes composed of students who are less than 16 years of age must not exceed 36 months.

Special classes offer different levels of staffing intensity depending upon the intensity of a student's academic and/or management needs.

The maximum class size for special classes and maximum chronological age ranges within these classes are specified in state regulations. The regulations permit variances from these requirements on a case-by-case basis, based on appropriate...

The new world of special education teacher certification is complicated. Learn more about certification for special education positions.

Find more resources about special classes.

NYCDOE consultant Marilyn Friend identifies six team teaching models.