As members of a most powerful union and, more important, as teachers we should be for all children — public, charter and parochial school students — of all faiths.

The responsibility for educating a child is in the hands of the teacher. And once the teachers roll up their sleeves, the process begins with commitment, dedication, care and concern.

My son was suspended from his charter school six times last year.

It is unfortunate that those teaching today have no easy way of finding out what teaching in the New York City public schools was like before we had a union.

Twice each year — for one day in the fall and a week every spring — the students at Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning School officially make like their school’s namesake and dedicate themselves to various forms of community service.

The Families for Excellent Schools TV ad is racist.

Anyone who believes that closing schools or firing teachers will solve the problem is not serious about finding a solution. As Janella Hinds, the UFT vice president for academic high schools recently testified at a hearing in Albany, “Receivership...

UFT Vice President for Non-DOE Members Anne Goldman met with about 35 new nurses from Lutheran Medical Center at a meet-and-greet held at the Military Ocean Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, on Oct. 21.

New York City is in the midst of two new standoffs over school rezoning that stir the embers of race and class. In successful rezoning, schools can be the place where we find out how we can all get along.

Third-graders in room 205 at PS 198 in East Flatbush especially relished their pizza party on Oct. 23 because it was a celebration marking their achievement of collecting the most dimes — $152.10 worth — in the school’s drive to raise funds for the...