UFT President Michael Mulgrew visited the staff at Harvest Collegiate HS in Manhattan on Sept. 8 as they were orienting the new 9th-graders and getting ready for the start of school.

More than 200 educators from South Richmond HS IS/PS 25 on Staten Island, a grade 1–12 District 75 school, started the year with a pep talk and update from UFT President Michael Mulgrew during a return-to-school breakfast at the South Richmond HS site on Sept. 8.

Read about new HES secretaries and the Labor Day Parade on Sept. 12.

Regarding “Less is more when it comes to homework” [Research Shows, July 10]: I never assign homework that must be completed in one night or that is not enriching in nature.

As charters pull more and more students from public schools, our public school funding is getting lower and lower.

UFT members were among thousands who gathered to celebrate Caribbean culture at the West Indian Day Parade on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn on Sept. 7.

With the start of the school year, the UFT is launching a radio ad campaign on Sept. 7 that features UFT President Michael Mulgrew calling on all New Yorkers to ”join us and celebrate the talent, dedication and hard work of students and teachers as...

Saying that “the current Common Core program in New York is not working,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sept. 3 convened a “representative group” from a pre-existing education commission to conduct a “comprehensive review of the implementation of the Common...

Guidance counselors should let their students know about this practice test for specialized high school admissions. Students will take a full-length practice test and receive personalized score reports pinpointing strengths and weaknesses so they’ll...

Hundreds of new teachers gathered at UFT headquarters during the week of Aug. 24-27 to engage in professional learning, network with fellow colleagues and get information about the UFT.