Testimony on Governor Cuomo's FY 2014-2015 executive budget proposal
UFT President Michael Mulgrew testified before the New York State Senate and Assembly Joint Committees on Education and Finance about the governor's proposed executive budget.
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Lunar New Year celebration at PS 203 in Queens
With colorful costumes and poised performances, students at PS 203 in Oakland Gardens, Queens, welcomed in the Year of the Horse at the school’s annual Lunar New Year celebration on Jan. 24.
OT/PT Meet the President
UFT President Michael Mulgrew spoke with close to 200 occupational and physical therapists at UFT headquarters on Jan. 22. Therapists asked him about the status of contract negotiations and the opportunity in a new contract to increase therapists’ salaries and improve their working conditions. Mulgrew told the members that their concerns have been heard “loud and clear.”
Human rights video contest can make compelling group work for students
The Speak Truth to Power student video contest co-sponsored by the AFT, challenges middle and high school students to create short films about a human rights violation and the modern-day heroes fighting to stop it.
Cuomo convenes a panel to address problems with Common Core rollout
Governor Andrew Cuomo used his annual budget address on Jan. 21 to announce the creation of a state commission to fix the problems with the statewide implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards.
Labor unites behind de Blasio’s pre-K plan
Leaders from all of the city’s major labor unions — representing 1.3 million workers — on Jan. 6 voiced their strong support for Mayor Bill de Blasio’s call for universal, full-day pre-K for the city’s four-year-olds.
The natural
On Staten Island, community is tightly woven, hard-won and strongly protected. At Curtis HS on the island’s north shore, one of the UFT’s six original Community Learning Schools, community is on prominent display.
Br-r-r-ring on 2014!
It was a teeth-chattering, bone-chilling day at the beach for the Federation of Nurses/UFT members who participated in the Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge on New Year’s Day, an annual tradition that dates back to 1903.
NYC students make limited gains on national tests
New York City’s newly released NAEP results, though, may not please the former mayor. They show that between 2003 and 2013 the city’s 4th- and 8th-graders did not improve as much in math or reading as their peers in other cities. New York City...