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Preparing for your tenure decision

Being granted tenure is an important milestone for new teachers.

Building a classroom community

Building a classroom community — the cornerstone of any successful early childhood program — goes far beyond learning names and class rules.

New SESIS payments of $4.5M for members

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...

No backing down

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.

Americans love Social Security

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.

Educational games for young students

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...

NYC scores on national test show weak results

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...

Sweeping changes at City Hall

TV ad a positive endeavor

We are vilified by the public every day because of misinformation.

‘Renewed faith’ in UFT

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.