Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a bill that will allow UFT members who are enrolled in the Board of Education Retirement ...

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) successfully reached a new agreement with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield on Dec. 23, 2024 and will continue to be an in-network provider. See statements ...

Do the short winter days leave you feeling down? Join Dr. Gail Brightwell, a licensed school psychologist with the Positive Learning Collaborative, to learn about the impact of seasonal affective ...

Do the short winter days leave you feeling down? Join Dr. Gail Brightwell, a licensed school psychologist with the Positive Learning Collaborative, to learn about the impact of seasonal affective ...

Shortly after Michael Mulgrew became president of the UFT in the summer of 2009, the new Retired Teachers Chapter leader, Tom Murphy, reached out to him with a proposal. “Tom said the retiree chapter ...

As the Dec. 20 deadline approached, several hundred New York City public schools were working on their applications for funding to reduce class size next school year. In late October, principals were ...

The Department of Education has long failed to share reliable data about the number of vacancies in special education across the city. So the union decided to conduct its own survey of chapter leaders ...

After the other daily tasks — checking water, testing pH level and adding nutrients — were finished in the hydroponics lab at P141 @ IS 71 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, teacher Philip Gagnon invited a ...

A 5th-grade class at PS 682 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn is learning about earthquakes. They start by watching a video, with captions on, about an earthquake in Japan. One student walks to the front of ...

More than a year into its operation, a UFT helpline for retired paraprofessionals has proved more successful than anticipated — both for those calling in and for those answering the phones. Staffers ...

“Beautiful! Keep going!” Lance Schatzman told a 5-year-old painting a pinwheel at the UFT’s Thanksgiving Luncheon for children living in temporary housing on Nov. 23. Schatzman, a 3-K teacher at PS ...

There are excellent online audio and visual resources that speech improvement teachers and classroom teachers alike can use to help students develop their listening and speaking skills. These ...