As summer drew to a close, school was in session for hundreds of new teachers who took part in a New Teacher Week from Aug. 24 to 27, which was organized by the Department of Education and the UFT.

The first six weeks of school are a crucial period for establishing routines and building relationships that become the building blocks for a successful school year.


To get high-needs students to grow, learn to connect with and appreciate the arts, art teachers need to frontload with materials, vocabulary, sentence starters and time in the museums and galleries of New York City.

Teachers will receive $122 in Teacher's Choice this school year, thanks to a 62 percent boost in the program's funding by the City Council after a big social media and member-lobbying campaign by the UFT to show City Council members the direct impact...

Here’s the truth that needs to be told: Each and every day, in every classroom in every school building, you are doing amazing work with your students under very challenging circumstances.

What are the odds that a group of urban high school students, many of whom had never set foot in an art museum before, would love an avant-garde museum devoted to new and challenging artwork? Yet students from Harlem’s Mott Hall HS were exuberant in...

Pro football player Mike Adams, a safety with the National Football League’s Indianapolis Colts, had a roomful of 3rd- to 6th-graders in the palm of his hand.

For 14 years, Neil Tolciss has mediated hearings on possible violations of the city’s quality-of-life laws, such as noise, sanitation and fire codes.

Four New York City public school students received UFT scholarships to attend classes at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute in Princeton this summer. “It has opened my perspective on many things,” said one Bronx high school student.

With smiling faces, loaded backpacks and high hopes for the year ahead, students, teachers and parents across the city headed back to school on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015.