A bill to uncouple standardized test scores from teacher evaluations and delete them from students’ permanent records may be close to being approved by state lawmakers.
There was something for everyone at the Spring Education Conference’s bustling exhibit hall where members filled shopping bags with vendors’ giveaways and marveled at the accomplishments of the career and technical education high school students...
David Kazansky has been reelected to serve a second three-year term as one of three teacher trustees on the board of the Teachers’ Retirement System.
At the HERstory brunch in March at union headquarters, UFT members were able to relax while receiving massages and feel pampered while having their nails manicured and their makeup applied, all by career and technical education students from Queens...
Promotion decisions for students who are held to modified promotion criteria are based on progress towards appropriately rigorous, annual goals for literacy and math; evidence of progress towards those annual goals must be captured in the student’s...
Eight school secretaries were honored at the 32nd annual School Secretaries Awards Luncheon on June 2 before a packed house in Shanker Hall, Manhattan.
Co-teachers in integrated co-teaching classes and English as a new language teachers who provide standalone and/or integrated instruction have the right to file reorganization grievances if they are programmed to have an unreasonable number of class...
More than 80 UFT members, retirees, family and friends celebrated the UFT Players’ 20th anniversary on June 1 at union headquarters in Manhattan, catching up with old friends and new, watching a highlight reel of their productions over the years and enjoying a meal and some impromptu performances.