One of the most important decisions you will make as you prepare for retirement is where to live. Considering that New York City has been called a retirement village, you will probably not be surprised that the vast majority of Teachers’ Retirement...

In a single year, the UFT has helped 10,000 members meet a new state certification requirement by providing the mandated training on the Dignity for All Students Act at weekend and weekday workshops throughout the city.


“I love the collaboration we have and meeting with other paras, and I love the training I’m getting here,” said Jacqueline Marshall, a paraprofessional at PS 44 in Brooklyn. That dedication and enthusiasm were evident throughout the 34th annual...

Around 100 graduates and former administrators from the Success Via Apprenticeship Program gathered at the UFT’s Shanker Hall on March 20 for the career and technical education teacher training program’s 30th anniversary gala.

Maribeth Whitehouse, who teaches at IS 190 in the Bronx, draws connections for her students between the Triangle fire and the Happly Land Social Club fire 79 years later. It is just one of the many ways that public school teachers have found to teach...

Around 150 parents, teachers and students from Brooklyn’s Community School District 15 rallied and picketed outside Gov. Cuomo’s midtown Manhattan offices on March 11. 
PS 24 Chapter Leader Erika Dagress said she trekked to the rally from her Sunset...

The parent-led Community Education Councils from 22 school districts across the city passed resolutions opposing Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed education proposals as part of the joint fight being waged by parents and teachers.


As budget negotiations were going down to the wire in Albany, some 5,000 parents, teachers and students from across the state converged outside Gov. Cuomo’s Midtown Manhattan office for a March 28 rally that marked the culmination of their months...

When time for PD was extended to the rest of the staff as a result of the contract, the staff at PS/IS 121 seized the opportunity to extend their professional learning community dedicated to studying anchor texts.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew opened the Delegate Assembly on March 25 by thanking delegates for the union’s outstanding work in countering Gov. Cuomo’s destructive education agenda.