UFT President Michael Mulgrew on Nov. 18 visited three schools — PS 31, PS 34 and co-located MS 126 in Brooklyn — to talk about union issues, student learning and the state of education in New York City and across the nation.

Information about our guidance counselor seminar series, our annual guidance counselors conference, lump-sum payment calculations, our chapter website, Teacher's Choice, new borough field support centers, our new professional development committee...

This is the November issue of the Staten Island parent newsletter.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew visited with members at the co-located PS 152 and PS 315 in Midwood, Brooklyn, on Nov. 13. Mulgrew then stopped by the PS 152 Annex — for pre-K–1 students, several blocks away — where he visited classrooms and spoke with teachers.

Scores of Manhattan parents, grandparents and legal guardians gathered on Nov. 14 at a UFT-sponsored conference for parents at the union’s Manhattan headquarters. Workshops focused on skills parents can use as community activists as well as to sharpen their parenting skills and personal organization abilities.

Hundreds of Bronx parents, grandparents and community activists gathered on Saturday, Nov. 7 for a day of workshops and speakers, all in an effort to build stronger public schools and more engaged communities.

The fall newsletter covers new postings, NYSUT calendars, the chapter's website, signing up for text messages and more.

The UFT joins state elected officials and education and civil rights advocates in calling on the state Legislature to conduct an investigation into disciplinary conditions and the high rate of suspensions at Success Academy and calls for a moratorium...

The UFT stands in support of the Coalition to Revitalize Dyett High School’s call for the community to have a voice in the future of their neighborhood’s last open-enrollment high school.