The UFT will continue to work with the DOE to ensure that legal, proper and fair practices are in place with regards to teacher discontinuances and that probationary teachers be treated with respect and professionalism.

The UFT supports our brothers and sisters in the Detroit Federation of Teachers and all other AFT affiliates in Detroit in their fight for safe working conditions for themselves and safe facilities for their students.

The UFT throws its full support behind the Los Angeles School District, the unions and like-minded advocates who are fighting this attack on the city’s public schools.

UFT Vice President for Special Education Carmen Alvarez testified before the City Council Committees on Education and Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse and Disability Services regarding addressing the needs of...

UFT members are asked to support Hillary Clinton in New York's presidential primary on Tuesday, April 19.

More than 200 runners and walkers laced up their sneakers in Coney Island on April 16 for the UFT's third annual 5K run/walk, whose proceeds benefited the UFT Disaster Relief Fund.

High school educators from around the city gathered at UFT headquarters on April 15 for the Academic High School Awards Ceremony.

The annual UFT Irish-American Committee’s Heritage Celebration on April 5 at UFT headquarters commemorated the centenary the Easter Rebellion in Ireland.

This is the April 15 issue of the Brooklyn parent newsletter.

After the California Court of Appeals reversed the lower court ruling in the anti-tenure lawsuit, UFT President Michael Mulgrew said the reversal was "a clear demonstration of the weakness of the Vergara case." He observed, "The Vergara plaintiffs’...