The UFT lost a founding member and former officer with the passing of Morris Shapiro, who died in January at the age of 101.

The Council Education Committee on March 19 adopted a resolution calling on the state Legislature to reject Gov. Cuomo’s receivership approach for fixing struggling city schools via a state takeover.

Seeking to block Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s move to seize control of struggling schools, Mayor Bill de Blasio set out in March to highlight the scope of his efforts to improve the city’s most troubled schools.


Anyone else see the master plan at play here? Introduce legislation/curriculum (Common Core) to help drive test scores down, introduce charters but don’t hold them to the same standards to make public schools look even worse. Then launch campaigns...

The United States has the world’s most highly educated workforce, but its students face high levels of poverty, inequality and violence, according to a new report

Enrollment in teacher-training programs across the country is declining.

FT members and retirees took advantage of the opportunity to learn from the top doctors in the fields of breast, prostate and lung cancer treatment by attending seminars offered at union headquarters in March. More than 100 attended a breast cancer...

Every phone call, every Facebook post, every sign you made — it all helped move the needle and educate the public on the truth behind the governor’s proposals.

Friends and colleagues gathered to pay tribute to former UFT Treasurer Harriet Merchant at funeral services following her death on March 11 after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 79.

The pre-K through 2nd-grade students at PS 158 in East New York, Brooklyn, had never been to a birthday party quite like the one they attended at their school on March 2 — a celebration of Dr.Seuss’ birthday as part of the annual nationwide Read...