The American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware and the Community Legal Aid Society filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights on Dec. 3 charging that the state’s charter school laws have led to de facto...

Members planning on retirement will need to decide whether to receive their maximum monthly retirement allowance or get a reduced allowance with a benefit for dependents or beneficiaries.

Find out about grants from the Brooklyn Nets, paid fellowships at Columbia, agriculture in the classroom, a C-SPAN video documentary competition and summer workshops at botanical gardens.

Everything Jani Decena-White, who teaches English at Hudson County Community College in New Jersey, needed to become an effective and inspiring educator, she learned in the fourth grade from Miss Harris, her teacher at PS 115 in Washington Heights.

Pro-labor progressives took a walloping on Election Day and we should face it squarely.

“It’s not about color; it’s about human dignity,” said Suzette Robbins, a paraprofessional who joined the 10-bus caravan of UFT and NAACP members to Washington, D.C. for the Justice for All March on Dec. 13.

Eighty-eight very proud child care providers completed training for their national accreditation from the National Association for Family Child Care in a festive graduation ceremony held at the UFT’s lower Manhattan headquarters on Dec. 6.

With the school year half over, now is a good time to take stock of the progress you’re making toward your professional state certification.


UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the UFT Delegate Assembly at its meeting on Dec. 17 that the union is calling on policymakers in Albany to rely on facts and research when making decisions about public schools.


I hope that each and every one of you had a happy and restful holiday break, and I wish you all the best for the new year that is now beginning.