Keep calm and counsel on. T-shirts given out at the UFT’s 14th annual School Counselors Conference on March 10 at union headquarters in Manhattan bore those words because that’s what school counselors do, School Counselors Chapter Leader Rosemarie...

If you received one or more of the distributions listed below during 2016, you are required to report the total gross amount of the distribution on line 16a and the taxable amount of the distribution on line 16b on your 2016 federal income tax Form...

Federal tax law allows taxpayers who elect to itemize deductions to deduct their state and local: income taxes or sales taxes, but not both, to reduce their federal income tax.

There is strength in organizing. One Queens community proved that on March 1, when the Panel for Educational Policy rejected the Department of Education’s plan to shut two Far Rockaway schools.


State Assemblywoman Stacey Amato — a former paraprofessional — called paras “the backbone of every classroom in every school,” at the 37th annual Paraprofessional Festival and Awards Luncheon on March 10 that drew nearly 1,000 paras to the New York...

Interim, low-stakes testing is not just an assessment tool but also facilitates the learning of new material, finds new research in the Journal of Educational Psychology.

The Teachers’ Retirement System’s primary responsibility is providing retirement benefits, but TRS is also committed to offering exceptional service and a variety of resources to union members including the TRS website, a call-in center, a walk-in...

Frank Wilczek, one of the world’s most eminent theoretical physicists and a New York City public school graduate, can’t remember a time when he wasn’t interested in math and science. As a high school senior, Wilczek was a finalist in the national...

Grants for material science, music therapy, tech solutions to real-world problems, STEM learning and Civil War field trips.

The annual Lunar New Year banquet at Joy Luck Palace in Manhattan's Chinatown on March 9 marked 30 years that the UFT has observed the holiday, which this year celebrates the Year of the Dog.