Here are the dates for designated liaison training this school year.

The UFT Delegate Assembly on Oct. 9 overwhelmingly approved a pair of resolutions calling for an end to New York City’s overemphasis on testing and a moratorium on attaching high-stakes consequences to the state’s new Common Core tests.

It was a sea of pink across New York City as UFT members wore pink to school and the union’s Delegate Assembly on Oct. 9 to raise awareness of breast cancer.

Some schools are having difficulty figuring out when to do baseline scoring and other work related to the evaluation and development system. For this year only, because of the time constraints caused by Commissioner King’s ruling coming at the end of...

Here are some things you could do or ask for to make sure your school is doing all it can to support student success. Many of these will be familiar steps that you may have already taken this year.

The city’s new teacher evaluation system prompted lively discussion among delegates at the Oct. 9 Delegate Assembly. UFT President Michael Mulgrew said that changes were no doubt needed. He said the union would be working to fix problems with the...

Hundreds of classes in three Queens high schools were still oversize on Oct. 2, 18 days after the start of the 2013 school year.

The Department of Education systematically overloaded struggling high schools with high-needs “over-the-counter” students who had not participated in the high school choice process, “accelerating a downward spiral toward closure,” a new report finds...

Robert D’Alessio, a special education teacher at the Abraham Lincoln School in Brooklyn, showed how teachers can advocate for themselves to help create the conditions where the greatest amount of student learning can occur.