Lawyers for the UFT and NYSUT vigorously defended due the process rights for teachers and made a forceful case in state Supreme Court on Jan. 16 for the dismissal of two lawsuits that attack those rights.


Gov. Cuomo is so enthusiastic about charter schools that he wants to greatly expand their number even though he acknowledges that they are not accepting the same number of high-needs students as public schools.

Love this idea. I’ve been a high school teacher for the last nine years. It’s called using good judgment. During

Charter school operators in New York have staked out an ambitious political agenda for 2015, powered by millions of dollars donated to elected officials and invested in substantial TV ad campaigns. The funding has come from conservative groups...

By guiding my students, I helped them overcome their insecurities with answering multiple-choice questions. Even my lowest-achieving students gained confidence as they actually asked for more multiple-choice questions to practice these strategies on.

As a math teacher at International Community HS in the South Bronx, Aristides Julmarx Galdones Uy hears a frequent question from skeptical students: “When am I going to use this in the real world?”

Three members at PROSE schools addressed delegates about the changes at their schools at the Jan. 14 Delegate Assembly.

Through a combination of research-based programs and targeted intervention strategies, PS 112, a K–2 school in East Harlem, has developed a well-rounded reading curriculum.

The many schools hurt by the recent critical shortage of licensed secretaries now have relief with the hiring of 353 school secretaries. 


For the most part, school secretaries love their jobs. But at the UFT’s annual Secretaries Seminar on Saturday, it sure was fun for them to act out frustrating and infuriating scenarios and learn ways to communicate and cope.