This is the Dec. 7 issue of the Bronx parent newsletter.

UFT Vice President for High Schools Janella Hinds testified before the New York City Council on Education regarding the diversity plan for New York City public schools.

UFT paraprofessionals have challenging and rewarding jobs working as part of an educational team providing educational and support services to children. Here are some rights and responsibilities of paraprofessionals that paras should know.

Educators in the Bronx’s District 8 are embracing a new approach to gifted education. Known as the “schoolwide enrichment model,” it focuses not on classifying gifted individuals but rather on developing and nurturing gifted behaviors in all students...

UFT President Michael Mulgrew thanked the delegates for their work in defeating the constitutional convention. But he warned that another important battle looms.

Don’t be surprised if a fellow UFT member comes knocking at your door! UFT members are going door to door to discuss the value of the union in person with every UFT member.

You can help by making a donation to the UFT Disaster Relief Fund to support Operation Agua, an AFT initiative that brings water purification systems to Puerto Rican families. A $30 donation is enough to provide one in-home purifier that filters up...

Iowa teachers, defying a hostile political climate, are reaffirming their belief in organized labor and voting to maintain their union representation in the face of new collective bargaining laws that have stripped their rights.

A Brooklyn teacher saved the life of a stranger, donating her kidney to a young mother in need and teaching the students at PS 222 that superheroes really do exist.

Forty UFT members, friends and family walked alongside Allison Hayden, a literacy coach and UFT Teacher Center site coordinator at PS 178 in the Bronx, for the 5K New York City Kidney Walk on Nov. 12, just as they had been there for her when she...