“You’re the guys who put the passion in our causes,” UFT President Michael Mulgrew told retirees gathered at the New York Hilton Hotel on June 3 for their historic 50th annual Retired Teachers Chapter Luncheon.

The UFT supports the Women’s Equality Act as set forth by Governor Cuomo to prevent discrimination against women and to promote their equal rights.

Teachers not covered by the new evaluation and support system will continue to be evaluated in the same way as previous years.

They raced, jumped, let arrows fly and, perhaps the best win of all, the 18 Martin Van Buren HS students joining the Victory Challenge Games for kids with disabilities experienced independence.

Harlem Success Academy chief Eva Moskowitz’s planned expansion of her charter network into a Fort Greene school is raising alarm among parents and staff, who say the co-location threatens the music and arts program at the heart of the 6-12 grade...

Teachers and administrators broke bread together, a deejay spun tunes, and 18 kids from all grade levels were winners at the UFT District 26 Scholarship Dinner Dance on May 30.

Since coming into office nearly 12 years ago, Mayor Bloomberg has come across as impervious to criticism and often arrogant in his assurance that he is always right. Lately, though, he has been a little thin-skinned.

Following alarming incidents of leaking and smoking PCB-laden light fixtures in New York City public schools this spring, the Department of Education agreed on May 22 to cut in half its time frame for replacing them.

Private foundations are giving an increasing amount of money to education. But they are directing it to a shrinking number of groups, and the losers are public schools and public universities.