The DOE will be paying nearly $4 million to 12,465 UFT members in their Nov. 30 paychecks in the second round of payments to compensate them for the hundreds of hours beyond the normal school day they spent logging data onto the Special Education...
The fighting spirit of the Federation of Nurses/UFT was readily apparent at the group’s 34th annual Professional Issues Conference held on Nov. 22 and 23 at the Westin hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Polls show that the 1935 Social Security Act is one of the most beloved and popular laws ever enacted in our country.But a proposed change to the cost-of-living adjustment could erode Social Security benefits.
Exposing young students to technology is not without controversy. Many teachers believe students should first develop their fine-motor skills on pen and paper before they jump onto computers. Others feel that students already have too much exposure...
New York City’s 4th- and 8th-graders have not improved as much in math or reading as their peers in other cities, results from new national tests show. While city students score relatively high, improvement has been markedly slow since 2003 compared...
A short time ago, I wrote an email informing UFT Vice President Carmen Alvarez of the difficulties I was having in regards to getting paid for my SESIS work.