The city has announced that the health plan open enrollment period for retirees will be the month of November 2014, with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2015.

The prevailing political winds that are blowing full blast as we approach the November elections appear to be blowing against progressive, labor-supported candidates and issues. But there are some cross currents that work in our favor.

For the ninth straight year, UFT members were among the thousands who thronged to Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway to celebrate Caribbean culture at the West Indian Day Carnival Parade on Labor Day.

The UFT Science Committee focused on safety policy and procedures at its Sept. 18 meeting, a timely theme in the wake of science experiments involving methanol in Reno, Denver and New York City that went badly wrong in the past year.

With grand larceny in schools up 15 percent in the 2013-14 school year over the previous year, UFT and NYPD School Safety officials are asking school staffers to take some simple preventive measures to protect their personal property.

No one understands the needs of educators better than educators themselves. That’s why we fought so hard to give members a voice in their schools and in the design of their own professional learning, effectively reversing years of being shut out by...

Regarding your Linking to Learning column [Sept. 4 issue] on technology-based projects: First, we need people in power who not just understand the potential of technology, but who possess the vision to broadly and purposefully implement it.

The people who want to toss teacher tenure in the trash will tell you that they are fighting for the kids. The fact is, though, that their quest to eliminate teachers’ due-process rights fits perfectly into the political agenda of the Wall Street...

Michael Mulgrew is not a bully. Mulgrew is a Staten Island resident who experienced the same grief that all of us went through when we saw the tragic death of Eric Garner.

A 5th-grade teacher discovers the value of using artifacts in the classroom during lessons.