Elizabeth Bonney is willing to try many things to figure out what will help the students in her self-contained special education class at PS 88 in Ridgewood learn — including a monthly visit from Sammy, a therapy dog.

Donna Koral has taught adult education and ESL for 29 years, the last seven teaching mostly Hispanic adults in a church community center in Williamsburg.

The Upper Big Branch explosion brings to light an important fact: Union mines – and unionized workplaces in general – are far safer than those, like the Upper Big Branch mine, without unions.

The No. 1 special education issue in schools is pressure to fit students into the programs and services that are available in the school even if the programs and services did not meet the student’s needs.

At a luncheon in their honor on Nov. 24, UFT President Michael Mulgrew praised the work of the UFT’s newest retirees in “changing thousands of lives in the toughest school system in the country.”

Around 300 high school students from across the city got a head start toward preparing for career success at the UFT’s Manhattan headquarters on Dec. 5 for the third annual Big Apple Classic Leadership Summit.

When winter winds finally start howling around here, scores of children from neighborhood homeless shelters in Harlem will be ready with brand new mittens, scarves, hats, coats and sweaters to help keep them warm.

The UFT stands firmly with all victims of terrorist atrocities throughout the world in declaring these acts for what they are: the work of cowards who do not believe in the principles of a democratic society.

The UFT urges Congress to give Medicare the power to negotiate drug prices, much like Medicaid and the Veterans Administration, to stabilize the market and establish competition among the drug manufacturers.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued a statement on the 2016 legislative agenda released by New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.