With a new administration coming to City Hall and the Department of Education, the UFT launched a television ad campaign on Nov. 18 urging all New Yorkers to work together to improve the city’s public schools.

More than 180 parents and community members turned out for the union’s Staten Island Parent Conference on Nov. 16. Entitled “Circling Around Student Success: Home–School–Community,” the conference promoted strategies for successful outcomes for children, said Joan McKeever-Thomas, the UFT Staten Island parent and community liaison.

A Q&A about what will happen after members take the civil service exam.

More questions and answers on the civil service exam and attaining permanent employee status.

The UFT Players rolled out their production of “Sail on, Seniors!” — an original play conceived by Lilly Yacker-Winderbaum and written my Milton Polsky and Warren Wyss — on Nov. 15 at UFT headquarters. The story was about a group of senior citizens on a cruise that explored the problems and pleasures of senior life.

Kerri Walsh had always loved living near the water. Her house in Breezy Point had once been her grandparents’ summer vacation cottage, and Walsh, the literacy coach at Channel View School for Research in Rockaway Park, had lived on the same block for...

They say lightning never strikes twice, but it has at Andries Hudde MS in Flatbush which for the second time in less than six months has fended off a proposal to co-locate a charter school inside its building.

Imagine returning to the house you’ve lived in for 15 years and finding it utterly destroyed. What would you do? If you were Fiorella Raimondi, a 2nd-grade teacher and the chapter leader at PS 20 on Staten Island, you’d dig in, rebuild and start over...

More than 200 UFT art teachers took part in for-credit professional development at the New York City Art Teachers Association/UFT Artworks ’13 education conference.

The UFT has joined with parents, community groups and its state union affiliate to launch a petition drive aimed at banning the use of standardized testing for grades 2 and younger.