Foot traffic was heavy all day long in the PS 175 schoolyard in Harlem as more than 1,000 parents, teachers and students stopped by to choose from among the 40,000 books being distributed on April 25 at the UFT-sponsored First Book event.

Jeff Kinney, the author of the Diary of the Wimpy Kid series, took to the stage at Symphony Space on April 27, to talk, sketch, entertain and inspire hundreds of awestruck children.

More than 300 runners and walkers made waves on the Coney Island boardwalk on May 9 at the UFT’s second annual 5K Family Run, which raised more than $15,000 for the UFT Disaster Relief Fund to benefit survivors of the Nepal earthquake.


The Municipal Labor Committee along and the New York City Office of Labor Relations recently agreed to create two new pilot programs to assist UFT members with diabetes.

To the strains of music by JLo and Pitbull, Ciara and Jordan Jones, students at PS 80, The Thurgood Marshall Magnet School of Multimedia and Communication in Queens, strutted on stage to perform at the UniverSoul Circus on May 2.

Already the 2016 campaign for the White House is upon us and the American Federation of Teachers is starting to prepare for it by asking for input from union members like us.

Students from Martin Van Buren HS are making a weekly trek to PS 18 in Queens Village to read, teach and otherwise mentor 4th- and 5th-graders. The program has provided moving stories of what happens when trust is established and connections are made...

Sixty nurses from schools throughout the city came to union headquarters on May 6 for the UFT’s National School Nurse Day Celebration.

The AFT is pleased to offer the Maria Portalatin National Freedom Scholarship to high school students.