In the new state budget agreement, unions lobbied for and won a provision that will allow private- and public-sector union members to deduct the cost of their union dues from their New York State taxes. Most UFT members who itemize deductions on...

Grants for excellence in teaching, using music to teach math, banned books, science teachers, physics teachers and more.

The article “Portraits of activism” [April 6] was most tender, inspiring and heartfelt — openly and proudly critical of U.S. policy — and rightly so.

From the start of my teaching career in 1966, we had always been told that our pensions were legally safe and could not be tampered with! Never before did we hear information to the contrary.

In “Trump budget a ‘nightmare’ for education” [April 6 issue], the opinion expressed in response to President Trump’s funding objectives for public schools seems to be dismissed by the opinions expressed in the other story, “City sets policy to...

Regarding your story on the UFT’s college and career fair [“Focusing on their futures,” April 6]

Go PS 66Q! [“Teaching ELLs: Keeping the old while learning the new,” April 6.]

Gradually the pages of hard-won rights are being turned back 100 years.

The Single Shepherd program, which launched in September, was designed to boost high school graduation and college enrollment rates in two of the most challenging school districts in New York City [see “Good ‘Shepherds’” on page 6]. Mayor Bill de...

It took a little longer, but our hard work yielded results: The new state budget increases education aid by $1.1 billion, which includes $700 million in additional foundation aid for school districts. Prekindergarten, community schools and after...