The New York state NAACP sought to join a lawsuit filed by city and state teachers unions to prevent the Charter Schools Committee of the State University of New York from implementing its less rigorous certification standards for some of the state’s...

More than 160 high school teachers from across the Bronx attended an event to hear from UFT President Michael Mulgrew about the potential impact of the Janus case and to learn how the union supports their profession.

This is the Feb. 8 issue of the Manhattan parent newsletter.

UFT members are celebrating National Public School Week by showing why they are #PublicSchoolProud! To commemorate the anniversary of Betsy DeVos' first year as U.S. education secretary on Feb. 7, some UFT members decided to #InviteDeVos into their schools to showcase the amazing work they do every day.

The UFT endorse David Kazansky for re-election as a Teacher- Member of the Teachers’ Retirement Board of the City of New York for a three-year term beginning in 2018.

The UFT will ask its members to wear red to work on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14, to show their support for their union.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew, along with Wisconsin AFT President Kim Kohlhaas, met with educators at PS 196 and MS 582, two co-located PROSE schools in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to talk about challenges to education and labor unions in the wake of the Janus case before the Supreme Court.

This year’s African Heritage Committee Awards Dinner was a special 15th anniversary event. To mark the occasion, honorees and their supporters wore traditional African clothing and prints while celebrating their colleagues’ accomplishments.

This is the Feb. 2 issue of the Bronx parent newsletter.

Creating a safe learning environment is paramount. Providing a ‘vent wall’ is among several things I establish at the beginning of the semester. I introduce ‘vent’ as a vocabulary word.