The School Secretaries Chapter held its 31st annual School Secretaries of the Year Awards Luncheon on May 6 at UFT headquarters in Manhattan, honoring one member from each borough and remembering the service and union advocacy of Goldie Colodny and Annette Carlucci with special awards presented in their honor.

This is the May 5 issue of the Manhattan parent newsletter.

We now have an agreement with the DOE, as the result of a grievance filed by the UFT, that will allow administrative education officers and analysts to have their own chapter leader. The chapter leader will have one day per week of release time to...

PROSE schools must have a track record of collaboration among administration and faculty. But a number of PROSE schools went a step further by launching a shared-leadership initiative, in which faculty members participate fully in the school’s...

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill blocking local governments in the state from making project labor agreements, which require contractors working on public projects to use union labor.

A new law in New Mexico prohibits schools from publicly identifying or stigmatizing students whose parents don’t pay their cafeteria bills.

Arizona has enacted a law allowing all public school students in the state to receive public funding to attend private and parochial schools.

New Mexico’s governor, Susana Martinez, has vetoed all funding for public higher education in the state budget for the coming fiscal year.

U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has withdrawn a series of Obama-era policies designed to strengthen protections for student loan borrowers.

UFT members from Districts 1, 2 and Manhattan high schools from those areas came together with UFT President Michael Mulgrew and other UFT officers and staff to discuss everything from U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to the #PublicSchoolProud campaign at a May 4 Meet the President event in Chelsea.