The approach of Park Slope's PS 295 to professional development “honors the way adults learn best," said Rita Danis, the co-director of the UFT Teacher Center.

Many of this year’s PROSE schools -- 62 schools empowered under the new contract to try far-reaching educational changes -- have an option to use a modified evaluation system this year after the UFT and DOE convinced the State Education Department...

An epic months-long effort by teams of UFT staff members and paraprofessionals helped save the jobs of nearly 4,000 paras who had been threatened with termination because of certification issues.

The UFT joined public school parents, advocates and elected officials on the steps of City Hall on Sept. 18 to put the state on notice: the $2.5 billion that it owes the city’s public schools from the 2007 settlement of a landmark school-funding...

A New York State Supreme Court justice on Sept. 11 granted the UFT’s motion to intervene in a lawsuit that seeks to eliminate teachers’ due process rights.

Karen Alford (right), the UFT vice president for elementary schools, participated on Sept. 12 in a panel discussion on community schools at the 2014 Hispanic Education Summit, organized by the Hispanic Federation.

We now have a chancellor who is committed to creating the space for the necessary conversations and teamwork between educators and parents and, thanks to our new contract, we have at least 40 minutes of every school week to devote to parent...

A Pathways to Graduation teacher who has for 15 years helped older students get their high school equivalency diplomas, most recently from a site in Harlem.

Retirees — some walking the route, and others waving from the top of a tour bus — joined in-service members at the annual Labor Day Parade on Sept. 6 in Manhattan.