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The Facts on Vouchers

Americans believe deeply in the promise and purpose of public education. Instead of strengthening the public schools that 90 percent of America’s children attend, President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos continue to promote private...

Lunar New Year Celebration 2017

More than 300 UFT members from across the city gathered at the Joy Luck Palace Restaurant in Chinatown for the annual celebration of the Lunar New Year organized by the UFT Asian American Heritage Committee.

The power of love

Love was in the air this Valentine’s Day — love for public schools, that is. In the face of the threat to public education posed by the Trump administration and its new education secretary Betsy DeVos, educators, students and parents across the city...

UFT delegates vote to endorse de Blasio for re-election

UFT delegates voted overwhelmingly to endorse the mayor’s re-election bid set for this coming November. “We are blessed that we have a mayor who will stand with every single public school teacher to defend our profession and the right to be unionists...

DeVos squeaks in as education secretary

Betsy DeVos was narrowly approved as education secretary by the Senate following a bruising confirmation process and a deafening public outcry over her nomination.

Mulgrew visits Edward B. Shallow JHS and two pre-K centers in Brooklyn

UFT President Michael Mulgrew had a morning visit with UFT members at Edward B. Shallow JHS in Brooklyn, before heading to two pre-K sites for Read across America celebrations in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday at the District 20 Pre-K Centers at 7415 Fort Hamilton Parkway and 140 58th Street.

She has authenticity down to a science

Staten Island Technical HS teacher Bianca Brandon, the winner of the Sloan Award for Teaching Science and Mathematics, draws on her experience working for the Chief Medical Examiner's Office to make real-world connections in her forensic science...

Bronx Community Learning Schools vision dinner

Sometimes it’s easier to solve problems when you collaborate. Four UFT community learning schools in the Bronx are doing just that.

A parting gift for her colleagues

Attendance is up, way up, in the bright, new teachers’ lounge at PS 205, a retirement gift from Lourdes Diaz-Austin to her former colleagues after 30 years as an ESL teacher at the school in the Belmont section of the Bronx. “It was a gift from my...

Give peace a chance

The students of PS 208 in East Flatbush marched around the city block, holding handmade signs bearing the words and symbols the children had chosen to communicate their hope for a loving world.