Even after a Jan. 12 blaze gutted his Bronx apartment, his family members escaping with only the clothes on their backs and landing in a Harlem homeless shelter, custodian Ralph Nelson reported to work at his Flushing middle school, just as he had...

You have a contract that defines and defends your rights. Workers without a union have no such protections.

Lots of serious teaching and testing can, on occasion, silence the silly and stifle small spirits at Bronx Little School.

“We are like the Rodney Dangerfield of the school system,” joked Richard Mantell, the UFT’s vice president for middle schools, as he opened the UFT’s third annual Middle School Conference on Saturday, March 19. “We get absolutely no respect.”

Lissette Rosario didn’t mince words: “I needed this,” she said at the conclusion of a workshop on getting young students involved in class discussions.

It was a magical evening of red carpets, music, dining and dancing for the young ladies of PS 169 and their escorts.

Diana Fuller, a guidance counselor at MS 313 in Brooklyn, said the workshop on healthy coping skills she attended at the UFT’s annual Guidance Counselors Conference was so useful she put it to work immediately.

Natasha Honore, a paraprofessional at PS 181 in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, said she has new strategies to take to her classroom, thanks to the “Literacy Strategies for All Learners” workshop at the 35th annual Paraprofessionals Festival and Awards...

At the March 23 Delegate Assembly, UFT President Michael Mulgrew called for volunteers to work on behalf of Hillary Clinton in light of the increasing probability of a Clinton-Trump battle this fall. “It’s now at the point that we know what’s in the...

Little Red Riding Hood’s exclamation “Grandma, what big teeth you have” was more than matched by the gasps of students from PS 209 and PS 225 in Brooklyn when they set eyes on the enormous Megladon tooth at the New York City Aquarium at Coney Island...