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UFT partnership with Yoobi can stretch Teacher’s Choice

The new school year is just around the corner and many teachers are ready to stock up on supplies. This year, educators will have more Teacher’s Choice dollars to spend, and thanks to a new UFT partnership with Yoobi, those dollars can go further.

Modest but real improvement on state tests

New York City students made small but significant gains on state math and English language arts tests in 2015, the third year of tests aligned with the Common Core Learning Standards.

State names 144 schools that could face ‘receivership’

The State Education Department this month identified 144 struggling and persistently struggling schools statewide — 62 of them in New York City — that could be turned over to an outside administrator or “receiver” if they do not meet performance...

AFT endorses Hillary in 2016

It may be summer, but educators are already looking ahead to the 2016 election.

Schools to close for Lunar New Year

The 2015–16 New York City public school calendar was revised on June 23 when it was announced that schools would close on Feb. 8, 2016, in observance of Lunar New Year.

Governor gets a beachfront bashing

More than 250 protesters converged outside the East Hampton beachfront estate of hedge-fund billionaire Dan Loeb on July 11 as those inside dined at a $5,000-a-plate fundraiser for Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Legislature blunts worst of Cuomo’s initiatives

Despite a $13 million advertising campaign, hedge-fund executives were unable to engineer the passage of an education tax credit for wealthy donors or an increase in the statewide charter cap in the state legislative session that wrapped up on June...

UFT joins call to place renewed focus on school diversity

New York City Council members, joined by NAACP representatives, advocates, parent leaders and the UFT, launched a campaign to increase school diversity and credit multiple measures of student success at a press conference in the City Hall rotunda on...

Members lobby for patient care improvements

UFT members ‘united’ with state educators

Three busloads of UFT members joined some 10,000 students, parents and educators in Albany on June 8 for the massive One Voice United rally organized by New York State United Teachers, the UFT’s state affiliate. The crowd stretched across the Empire...