In a prescient pre-election decision, the annual Greater Metropolitan New York Social Studies Conference this year chose as its theme Media Literacy: Who Shapes the Narrative.

If you use TransitChek, the MTA will be raising various transit fares effective March 19, including the 30-Day Unlimited Ride MetroCard, which will increase from $116.50 to $121.

When President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos held a meeting at the White House with the “education community” on Feb. 14, it showed the deep disconnect between his administration and the reality of education in the United States.

High school graduation rates hit a record high and the dropout rate sunk to a record low, according to data released by the DOE on Feb. 10.

New York State could eliminate its $3.5 billion budget deficit — money that could help bolster schools and other social needs — if state lawmakers closed the “carried interest” loophole favoring private equity and hedge fund managers, said UFT...

After an election in which Donald Trump made building a wall to keep out immigrants a major theme of his campaign, educators at Brooklyn International HS embarked on a student art project to help turn their immigrant students’ fear and sadness into...

The UFT celebrated Black History Month by screening a series of three films that explored some of the American heroes and historical events marking that history.

Nearly 300 members and friends of the UFT African-American Heritage Committee gathered on Feb. 3 to kick off Black History Month at the committee’s 14th annual dinner dance.

Once a week, four PS 147 pre-K classes cross the street to Brooklyn’s Bushwick Public Library for story hour and a different way to focus on literacy.

Following a series of Trump cabinet nominations that have sparked unprecedented opposition, controversy finally sank one outright: fast-food mogul Andrew Puzder, the president’s choice for Secretary of Labor.