The intersecting roles of art teacher and artist are the focus of a new exhibit, “Twofold: Artist-Teacher, Teacher-Artist,” at the Gallery at Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where nine public school teachers have their artwork on display...

At a public hearing in Albany on the state’s new receivership plan for struggling schools, UFT Vice President for Academic High Schools Janella Hinds declared the UFT’s firm opposition, calling it a “heavy-handed action” that does nothing to improve...

While they may never be van Goghs, 50 UFT members raised $1,000 for breast cancer research while trying to reproduce the Brooklyn Bridge in watercolors at Paint Nite at the Staten Island UFT borough office on Oct. 2.

A case before the U.S. Supreme Court this year could pose the gravest threat to unions in the history of the modern U.S. labor movement, labor experts say. Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association challenges the “fair share” requirement that...

The American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association have joined together with other public sector unions to combat the right’s attempt to use a case before the U.S. Supreme Court to hamstring them financially by abolishing...

Science teacher Kathryn Wichnovitz watched as hundreds of people wearing variations of pink in everything from sweaters and hats to tutus thronged the boardwalk and parks at Midland Beach in Staten Island for the annual Making Strides against Breast...

Eighteen paraprofessionals are now serving as chapter leaders, triple the number in 2012, the year of the last chapter leader elections.

For three years, Valerie O'Grady has worked at the hospital school at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she teaches grades pre-K–12 at the bedside of burn-unit patients and grades 6–12 in a hospital classroom.

At the first Delegate Assembly of the 2015-16 school year, UFT President Michael Mulgrew asserted that “every year there is a crisis.” Then he revealed the reasons why this year will be no different.


City schools began the school year with the fewest oversized classes in more than seven years, UFT President Michael Mulgrew announced on Oct. 19.