New members at three large high schools in Brooklyn had the opportunity to learn more about their union on Oct. 25 at Madison HS.

Staff and students at Edward R. Murrow HS, one of the most diverse high schools in New York State, took part in a great human wave to celebrate that diversity on Oct. 24.

Bennett Fischer, the chapter leader at PS 231 @ PS 54 in Brooklyn, seized on the UFT’s new protocol to confront redundant and excessive paperwork to address three big paperwork issues at his District 75 K–8 school.

David and Charles Koch’s Americans for Prosperity promotes privatization, charter schools, vouchers and free markets. But the Libre Initiative is theirs as well, the latest effort to build support for their ideas and influence policy, this time by...

School custodian Luis Diaz is alive today thanks to the heroic efforts of the Building Response Team at co-located PS 83/182 in East Harlem.


“Art Education is the Key” was the theme of the 37th annual conference of the New York City Art Teachers Association/UFT.

Educators' pursuit of scholastic excellence for their students and themselves and the advancement of their profession through trade unionism as UFT members are not mutually exclusive.

It’s not often that Little Red Riding Hood gets together with Batman and Tinkerbell. But at the annual Character Day Parade at PS 165 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, anything can happen when students dress up as their favorite storybook characters on...

The New York City Association of Foreign Language Teachers/UFT, marked the 20th anniversary of its annual professional development conferences promoting world languages and cultures on Nov. 4 at UFT headquarters.

Students representing nine Career and Technical Education HS culinary programs had a real world look at the hospitality industry on Oct. 25 at the fall dinner of Les Amis d’Escoffier Society of New York.