More than 1,500 students from high schools around New York City and throughout the world gathered at Pier 92 on Manhattan’s West Side on April 17 for the annual Virtual Enterprise International trade fair.

In a 12th-grade ELA class, I turned a research unit on disaster and apocalyptic fiction into a podcasting unit and tasked my students, 65 percent of whom were English language learners, with becoming media makers for real-world audiences.

The Bronx College Fair at the UFT's Bronx borough office on March 23 gave 1800 students the opportunity to meet with representatives of 85 colleges and universities and to learn about the help available to complete college and financial aid...

A Community Learning Schools showcase on March 27 at the Community Health Academy of the Heights (CHAH) in upper Manhattan gave educators, parents, board members and administrators from all the 29 UFT Community Learning Schools a chance to learn from...

Are you planning to retire soon from active employment? If so, you’ll need to maintain your UFT membership as a retiree in order to continue participating in NYSUT Member Benefits-endorsed programs and services.


“Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, should learn a computer language, because it teaches you how to think,” said Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple. He made that remark in 1995, but schools are now catching up with his...

Do you participate in the Teachers’ Retirement System’s Tax-Deferred Annuity program?

Earlier this year, the Federation of Nurses/UFT achieved on-time contracts at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York and NYU Langone-Brooklyn Hospital that protected the nurses’ hard-fought contractual benefits, improved working conditions and...

More than 70 new teachers and teaching candidates were on hand for the third in a series of quarterly symposiums, sponsored by NYC Men Teach, a Department of Education program to recruit more men of color committed to teaching a diverse urban student...

The Department of Citywide Administrative Services advised us today, May 2, that exams for Administrative Education Analysts and Administrative Education Officers have been postponed. The DCAS website was just updated to reflect this.