Teachers and staff at the first charter schools opened by New Visions for Public Schools are now under union contracts. Staff at the two high schools in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx joined the UFT two years ago.

Teachers at Beginning with Children Charter School, a K-8 charter school represented by the UFT, have reaffirmed their right to unassigned prep periods, thanks to an arbitrator’s decision. The victory for teachers comes as the school’s very existence...

Barbara Mercaldo has worked in city schools as a school psychologist for 22 years, most recently in three Manhattan schools: PS 125, PS 36 and Columbia Secondary School.

I am honored to represent you, our union’s approximately 40,000 members who are not employed by the DOE, as the UFT’s first-ever vice president for non-DOE members. Although we are called the United Federation of Teachers, we are a union of...

An award for teachers who further understanding between America and Japan; summer opportunity for science teachers; resources to help teachers teach about the science of polymers; an award for videos about population growth and global challenges...

Many members of the Teachers' Retirement System are unaware of their benefits. This column focuses on explaining the death benefit available tot he vast majority of members.

MS 224 in the Bronx is known as the Science School for Exploration and Discovery.

Lobbying elected officials is what we do and we do it well. That is why we retirees are lucky individuals, but we are retirees who have earned that luck.


Librarian Natalie Thomas timed the annual Book Giveaway at IS 171 in Cypress Hills perfectly. The entire student body — just under 800 students in grades 6, 7 and 8 — was given a book of their own choosing to curl up with and read during the holidays...

Santa Claus left the North Pole early this year to join 200 homeless children at the best holiday party in town.