In what UFT District 26 Representative Mary Vaccaro described as “the best event ever,” 320 guests gathered to honor educators in the Queens district on May 22 at The Inn in New Hyde Park.

Regarding the article “Dual language: A practice whose time is overdue” [New York Teacher, April 17], this form of instruction should start in kindergarten with every child, so that we can be a real nation of bilingual speakers, like in many other...

Jessica Dickson is an associate education officer for special education who works out of a DOE office building in Long Island City.

Teachers participating in a yearlong UFT/AFT Teacher Leaders Program, facilitated by the UFT Teacher Center, presented their research findings on key education issues at a culminating event at union headquarters on May 17.

We now have a new contract — ratified and certified — that will allow us to transform education in New York City by placing parents and educators back in the driver’s seat in our city’s public schools.

They didn’t have 80 days, so the students and staff at IS 126 in Astoria went around the world in an evening.

Part of the answer to New York City’s ELA debacle was not a lack of process in developing the tests so much as a profound lack of oversight. The State Education Department rushed something that needed care and time.

Chancellor Carmen Fariña tells 250 UFT members at the Brooklyn town hall meeting on May 29 that she is looking to introduce some common sense into how the schools are run.

Fourteen providers were honored at the UFT Family Child Care Provider Chapter’s second annual Provider Appreciation Awards Ceremony.

More than 200 nurse members of the UFT from Lutheran Medical Center, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York and other health care agencies attended the Federation of Nurses/UFT's Nurse Recognition Day Celebration to honor the “everyday heroes” in...