For 8th-graders at the Metropolitan Expeditionary Learning School in Forest Hills, lessons in writing, art and social studies have come together in a published book of 25 interviews and portraits of social activists in New York City.

The state budget, New York City public education successes, the UFT #PublicSchoolProud campaign and why to oppose a constitutional convention were among the topics discussed by UFT President Michael Mulgrew at an April 4 Meet the President event on Staten Island.

Information on our Teachers Assigned Meet-and-Greet, extreme weather protocol, the constitutional convention, the Open Market Transfer Plan period and more.

The UFT Bronx borough office welcomed nearly 1,700 students, parents and high school personnel on March 31 to a college fair, where admissions recruiters from more than 100 colleges and universities met with students planning to attend post-secondary schools in the fall of 2018.

SBOs give your school the opportunity to collaboratively modify contractual articles and/or create positions that the contract does not automatically allow.

This is the March 30 issue of the Manhattan parent newsletter.

Schools are no longer required to request prior approval from the State Education Department to administer state assessments over multiple days. And beginning with the 2017 test administration, students with disabilities who have the “tests read”...

Members of the UFT Jewish Heritage Committee and the Jewish Labor Committee, educator’s chapter, in collaboration with the Workmen’s Circle shared a traditional kosher Passover dinner and camaraderie as they celebrated Passover through the eyes of the labor movement at their annual Labor Seder on March 28 at UFT headquarters in Manhattan.

More than 800 UFT members boarded buses headed for Albany at dawn on March 27 to lobby state lawmakers for more public school funding, charter school accountability, an extended and enhanced millionaire's tax, support for Community Learning Schools and other important education initiatives.

A busy group of math teachers spent the afternoon of March 25 cutting, measuring, designing and constructing quilt block patterns as part of a hands-on workshop exploring how tessellation in quilts and stained glass can be used in math classes at all grade levels.