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District 12 Scholarship Committee Breakfast

Nearly 200 people turned out for the District 12 UFT Scholarship Committee’s first breakfast fundraiser on May 29 at the UFT’s Bronx borough office, where honorees included students, educators and school staff.

Working after you retire

If you are thinking of joining the ranks of working retirees, here are some guidelines so you don’t put your retirement benefits at risk.

90-year anniversary at PS 117, Queens

PS 117 students on June 8 joined past and present teachers and administrators and former students for the Queen's school's 90th Anniversary celebration.

Teachers confront Golden on evaluation bill

Brooklyn teachers rallied outside state Sen. Marty Golden’s office in Bay Ridge on June 1 to try to change his mind — and his opposition — to the state bill to sever the mandatory link between students’ state test scores and teacher evaluations.

Students gain from having same teacher twice

Elementary school students reap academic benefits when assigned to the same teachers for two years in a row, according to new research in the journal Economics of Education Review.

Speech Improvement Chapter retrospective

A retrospective of the UFT’s Speech Improvement Chapter, which was founded in 1991, was a highlight of a May 30 event that drew more than 100 members of the chapter, past and present, to UFT headquarters.

Education Officers and Analysts Chapter Newsletters

Education Officers and Analysts Chapter Newsletters

Cuomo order protects workers after Janus

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order on June 27, the day of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Janus case, to prevent anti-worker groups from obtaining the personal information, including phone numbers and addresses, of government employees...

UFT on Municipal Labor Committee agreement on health care savings

UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued a statement in support of the Municipal Labor Committee's agreement with the city of New York to save approximately $1.1 billion in employee health care costs over the next three years.

The Supreme Court's Janus decision is one battle in an ongoing fight unions will win

The finding in the Janus case will make it more difficult for unions to gather the resources they need to defend the interests of workers and their families. But our union will remain strong, and we will not be silenced.