PS 30 in East Harlem does not have the shiny frills of Success Academy, which is co-located in its building, but it has strengthened its community with the help of the UFT community learning schools grant, new partners and programs like reading...

Politicians, parents, students and advocates held a press conference outside City Hall on May 28 to encourage Mayor Bill de Blasio to include funding for universal free school lunch in the final city budget due by July 1.

In one sign of the ongoing war on workers in the United States, employers are increasingly resorting to one the most brutal tactics in the anti-union playbook: the lockout.

The schools in the New York Performance Standards Consortium are raising academic standards while endowing students with a lifelong love of learning, all without relentless test prep. Now that is exciting.

Grants and awards for high school journalism teachers, information science teachers, economics teachers and more.

This year, the date a person retires takes on new importance. In light of the new contract, members have to make a decision whether to retire on or before June 30, 2014 or later.

“We have never felt so appreciated!” Chapter Leader Nancy Wagner was speaking of herself and her PS 71, Ridgewood, colleagues, who enjoyed a week of daily surprises arranged by Principal Indiana Soto throughout Teacher Appreciation Week.

Members of the Science Olympiad team at JHS 194 in Whitestone, which took home a 2nd-place trophy in this year’s citywide competition, go in depth and research a topic all year.

Political pundits are using these terms to predict the defeat of progressive forces in the November congressional elections in which the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate are being contested.

Roughly 275 speech teachers, students and their families came out for an evening of fun and awards at the UFT Speech Improvement Chapter’s eighth annual Better Speech and Hearing Month Celebration.