UFT Vice President for Elementary Schools Karen Alford reiterated the union’s endorsement of the mayor’s full-day universal prekindergarten plan in testimony before the City Council on Feb. 11.

Some 400 local and regional educators gathered with business, higher-education and union leaders at a Career and Technical Education Summit at UFT headquarters on Feb. 3, exploring ways for schools to build high-quality CTE programs to meet the needs...

The editorial board for Educator’s Voice, a journal published by New York State United Teachers, is seeking proposals for articles to be included in its “Critical Thinking and Problem Solving for the 21st Century Learner” issue that will be published...

Would you want a doctor who had completed one year of medical school instead of four? A lawyer who had finished only one semester of law school?

Amid a statewide furor over the flawed implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards, the State Assembly on Feb. 28 introduced a bill that would impose a two-year moratorium on attaching high-stakes consequences to the New York state tests for...

Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled a clean break with the past in his first formal presentations as mayor — his State of the City address on Feb. 10 and a budget address on Feb. 12 — recognizing and praising the municipal workforce and pledging to work in...

New teacher hiring picked up in the 2012-13 school year and during the start of this one as the DOE finally started to lift its recession-era hiring freeze. However, departures also increased, especially among experienced educators, adding to an...

Even as Mayor Bill de Blasio takes welcome steps to require greater scrutiny of co-location proposals, schools dealing with co-locations foisted on them during the Bloomberg years continue to pay a price. A case in point is Susan S. McKinney...

In Helen Chan’s full-day prekindergarten classroom at the Children’s Workshop School in the East Village, as in any high-quality pre-K program, learning and play are deeply intertwined. Through a curriculum that combines early academic skills with...

Wages of airport workers - from baggage handlers to security officers and cabin cleaners - have fallen steeply in recent decades. Now low-wage airport workers are fighting back and having some victories.