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Membership card and app

The UFT's new membership card and app are available.

Defensive driving

The UFT's defensive driving course can save you money and maybe your life!

Trips

The UFT has been running its popular Just for Fun trips for 30 years. With eight excursions a year to different locations, nearly 800 members, both in-service and retired, along with friends and family members, participate each year.

Theater and movie tickets

The UFT's Just for Fun department offers discounts UFT members on theater and movie tickets.

Free teacher certification exam preparation workshops

The Murphy Institute for Worker Education Leap to Teacher program offers free preparation workshops for New York State teacher certification exams.

Leap to Teacher program for paraprofessionals

The Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education at CUNY is offering the Leap to Teacher program for paraprofessionals interested in continuing their higher education.

Hitting all the high notes

Music is lifting up students at PS 91 in University Heights in the Bronx — not just emotionally but academically, too.

Fitting sendoff for chapter leader

School secretaries have many responsibilities. But for Mona Gonzalez, who is stepping down as chapter leader, the job will always be about relationships. “The relationships and memories will last a lifetime,” she said after accepting the Annette...

Kudos to Michael Ferruso, Hillcrest HS, Queens

This year’s opening of a UFT Teacher Center at Hillcrest HS — where the school’s 240 educators now can earn CTLE hours at on-site workshops and gather for professional conversation and collaboration — may be the most celebrated achievement in Chapter...

Court: Charters can't shortcut certification

The UFT and its state affiliate, New York State United Teachers, won their battle to maintain rigorous certification standards for teachers when a New York State Supreme Court justice on June 19 struck down less stringent regulations established last...