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Professionally certified teachers and Level III certified paraprofessionals are required to collect a total of 100 professional development hours, now called Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) hours, by a state-approved provider such as...

UFT President Michael Mulgrew testified before the New York City Council Committee on Finance regarding the city's fiscal year 2023 executive budget and capital commitment plan.

A Queens teacher argues the Danielson teacher evaluation process needs an overhaul, with teachers being rated in part on how much they've grown as educators.

These five UFT members — along with their fellow educators throughout New York City — grappled with fresh challenges as the omicron variant surged.

The Board recognizes the Union as the exclusive bargaining representative for a unit of all those employed in the titles of Attendance Teacher and Attendance Teacher (Spanish Speaking) including regular substitutes, full term per diem substitutes...

The booths featuring the skills of the city’s career and technical education (CTE) high schools and programs were the highlight of the Spring Education Conference’s exhibit hall.

January 31, 1991 Lucille Swaim Coordinator of Negotiations United Federation of Teachers 260 Park Avenue South New York, New York 10010 RE: 1991 -1993 Collective Bargaining Agreement between VNS Home Care and United Federation of Teachers Dear Ms...

UFT President Michael Mulgrew announced a new prerequisite for mayoral candidates who want to be considered for the UFT endorsement: spend a day working — alongside professional educators — in a New York City public school.

It is the joint purpose of the parties that employees in the bargaining unit be afforded an opportunity to qualify for advancement to professional positions including positions other than classroom teacher, with the Board of Education through...

Janella Hinds, UFT Vice President for Academic High Schools, and Leo Gordon, UFT Vice President for Career and Technical High Schools, submitted testimony before the New York City Council Committees on Education and Technology on developing policies...

Union officers and staff are ready and able to visit many schools throughout the school year to speak at chapter meetings.

Tom Pappas, a “tough as nails” but kind educator and administrator who began teaching in 1957 and went on to serve as a district representative, borough representative, UFT assistant, UFT secretary, staff director and Retired Teachers Chapter leader...

When you retire from teaching, your pension plan guarantees a lifetime annuity of regular payments based on a formula that takes into account your years of service, your salary and your age. Here's what you need to know about this valuable benefit.

If you are a teacher hired or rehired on or after Sept.1, 2019, then you must obtain a minimum of 18 A+ credits in order to earn your salary differential, unless you have already attained an additional doctorate or an additional master’s in an...

Get answers to your questions about virtual learning under the new proposed contract.

Leo Gordon, a New York City public school teacher for more than 26 years, has been elected the UFT’s vice president for career and technical education by the union’s Executive Board.

Leo Gordon is the UFT vice president for career and technical education. Elected by the union's Executive Board in October 2021, Leo brings to this role more than 26 years of career and technical education teaching and coaching experience.

The historic uprising for Black lives in the summer of 2020 sparked educators at Brooklyn’s New Utrecht HS to launch an Equity Team to tackle racial inequality.

Politics is union business. In hard economic times, political action is needed more than ever. Every member needs to enroll in UFT COPE.

The city DOE notified more than 700 schools that they would receive all or most of the funding they requested to hire additional teachers to lower class sizes this September.

Behavior-management techniques commonly employed in District 75 special education classrooms can be used to address and de-escalate student behavior in general education settings as well. Longtime District 75 teacher Nina Krisel Berke shares four...

Hundreds of UFT members in all five boroughs and on Long Island participated in the Making Strides walks on the last two Sundays in October, raising money for breast cancer research and awareness.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew testified before the New York City Council Committee on Education regarding the NYC FY23 preliminary budget and the preliminary capital commitment plan for FY23-26.

Review the UFT's current state legislative priorities.

Educators are lifelong learners. As a UFT member, you have the opportunity to sharpen your skills and expand your knowledge in a variety of ways.

A retired educator warns that teachers must take pains to ensure the human student-teacher relationship remains central in schools as artificial intelligence makes inroads into the pedagogical process.

See more information about timetables for pay increases, bonuses and retroactive pay for the 2023 contract.

UFT members have ratified a new contract by a margin of 74.6%. The more than 95,000 votes cast was the largest in UFT history.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew’s core message to the 1,300 UFT members at the union’s Spring Education Conference on May 20 was “Kill hate with love." He told educators at the New York Hilton Midtown, “What we do is powerful. It’s our voice that must...

UFT Secretary LeRoy Barr submitted testimony to the City Council Committee on Finance regarding the New York City executive budget.

CLOSING OF ISLAND AND HORIZON ACADEMIES MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT Between THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK And UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, LOCAL 2, AFT, AFL-CIO This Memorandum of Agreement ("MOA")...

CLOSING OF ISLAND AND HORIZON ACADEMIES MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT Between THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK And UNITED FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, LOCAL 2, AFT, AFL-CIO This Memorandum of Agreement ("MOA")...

By the mid-1950s it was apparent there was no shortage of rising young stars on the horizon. Still, none shone brighter than Ely Trachtenberg.