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Grants, Awards & Freebies — Dec. 6, 2018

Grants for STEAM, educational projects and more.

UFT helps members find student loan relief

The UFT has formed a partnership with the National Student Debt Forgiveness Center and longtime Retired Teachers Chapter legal provider Feldman, Kramer & Monaco to help Department of Education-employed members burdened with student debt find...

Fact-based knowledge

Some years back I showed students Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and a few parents complained that students were being exposed to propaganda and political bias.

Endorsements one-sided

After looking at the list of endorsements for the election, I began to realize that if Abe Lincoln were running he wouldn’t rate a UFT endorsement.

Golden was ‘bad for teachers and students’

Soon-to-be-former Sen. Marty Golden is bad for both teachers and students, as well as our schools!

Another horrible shooting

As a child of the 1960s, the anti-war Woodstock generation, I am crushed and saddened by the hate and gun violence in our country, the latest atrocity being the shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

The true meaning of the holiday

Jackie Herman, the chapter leader at IS 98 in Brooklyn, has volunteered every year at the Thanksgiving Luncheon that the UFT Middle School Division hosts with the Coalition for the Homeless since it was first held five years ago. But the event never...

Cautious praise for District 15 diversity pilot

The District 15 diversity pilot approved by the mayor and the chancellor in September is a valiant project! I do have some questions though:

Helping students with dyslexia

Researchers estimate that dyslexia affects between 5 and 12 percent of the U.S. population — and as many as 80 percent of students who struggle with reading.

Social Security changes in 2019

Social Security and Supplemental Security Income benefits for more than 67 million Americans will increase 2.8 percent in 2019, the Social Security Administration announced in October.