Accidents, playground scrapes, bloody noses, fights, athletic injuries and violent episodes all have the potential for exposing you to a

The Histogram wall in my social studies classroom is a play on Instagram.

In a fiery speech accepting the Charles Cogen Award, the union’s highest honor and the highlight of Teacher Union Day, Mona Romain told cheering colleagues, “The union is deep inside me.”

Progressive Redesign Opportunity Schools of Excellence (PROSE), created under the 2014 DOE-UFT contract, gives schools flexibility in designing their schedules, programming, teacher evaluation systems and other aspects of their school environments, enabling them to implement innovative school improvement strategies. Here are some highlights.

The UFT is stronger than ever.
That point was repeated often during the 54th annual Teacher Union Day ceremony, a day that honors those who participated in the first UFT strike on Nov. 7, 1960, and the union stalwarts of today.


Averting the threatened closure by the state of two long-troubled high schools in Brooklyn, the UFT and the Department of Education on Nov. 7 agreed to a plan aimed at revitalizing them instead.

Voters in states and cities across the country cast ballots on Nov. 4 in favor of higher minimum wages and guaranteed paid sick days.

Six school districts and parents of schoolchildren submitted a brief on Nov. 10 accusing Pennsylvania of violating its state constitution by skimping on education funding.

Thousands of high school seniors from across Colorado put down their pencils and picked up protest signs to boycott the state’s new standardized tests in social studies and science.