Enhanced student achievement based upon high standards and expectations must be the driving force behind every activity of New York City public schools. To accomplish this, we must reinvent schools so that decision making is shared by those closest...

The UFT offers these quality union-branded items that are practical to own and make great gifts.

Contact information for UFT headquarters, borough offices, departments and hotlines. Use it to find email addresses, phone numbers and maps for key locations.

Learn the basics about the UFT, a trade union of nearly 200,000 teachers, nurses and other professionals in New York City.

Under the UFT-DOE contract, teachers and other members have varying rights to absences, leaves and sabbaticals.

Introducing the UFT union officers: president, secretary, assistant secretary, treasurer, assistant treasurer and seven divisional vice presidents.

A. Assistance in Assault Cases The principal shall report as soon as possible but within 24 hours to the Office of Legal Services and to the Chief Executive of School Safety and Planning that an assault upon a teacher has been reported to him/her...

A. Teacher Files Official teacher files in a school shall be maintained under the following circumstances: No material derogatory to a teacher's conduct, service, character or personality shall be placed in the files unless the teacher has had an...

A. Restriction on Union Activities No teacher shall engage in Union activities during the time he/she is assigned to teaching or other duties, except that members of the Union's negotiating committee and its special consultants shall, upon proper...