Unions save lives. Just ask Bronx family child care provider Rosa Martinez. Martinez suffered from two forms of cancer – but beat the disease thanks, in part, to the health insurance won for providers by the UFT.

I had planned every minute of my first day back at school in September, but I hadn't factored in collaboration.

Students who struggle in reading and writing often become disengaged with traditional instructional methods. It’s crucial, therefore, to develop instructional techniques that promote engagement and move students along the academic continuum.

Mary Murphy has been a certified teacher in the Living for the Young Family through Education program for 17 years. Since last year, she’s been at Port Richmond HS in Staten Island. LYFE provides child care for teen parents enrolled in high school or...

What was once an empty lot and an eyesore is now a treasured new park for the Morrisania community in the south Bronx to enjoy thanks in part to the imagination and industry of students and staff from nearby PS 159.

The UFT has its last scheduled fact-finding hearing for a new contract on Nov. 4.

More than 600 students, parents, teachers, elected officials and community members from a Staten Island shore neighborhood still recovering from Hurricane Sandy packed a Community Education Council meeting at IS 2 on Sept. 16 to slam plans to have a...

Evaluations, elections and a continuing lack of curricular materials were on the minds of the approximately 1,000 chapter leaders who gathered in Brooklyn for their annual start-of-school unionwide meeting.

Kimberly Faraci, a 1st-grade teacher at PS 19 in Williamsburg, had never volunteered for a political campaign before. But that changed when she learned her first-grade Antonio Reynoso, 30, was a Democratic candidate for the City Council. Faraci and...

New Utrecht HS history teacher and UFT delegate Mark Treyger has won the three-way Democratic primary for the City Council seat in the 47th Council District in south Brooklyn.