For the 8th-graders from PS/IS 119 in Queens, the three-room, 325-square-foot walk-up in the Lower East Side tenement building was surprisingly not as cramped as they thought it would be. However, as ...

"I don't care if they're closing the Department of Education... you still have to go to school!" ...

We have all watched what has been unfolding in our cities: the mass deployment of federal agents to terrorize immigrant communities and advance a white nationalist agenda. We have seen our neighbors ...

Hundreds of UFT members joined thousands of demonstrators in Manhattan on Jan. 23 to show solidarity with Minneapolis-St. Paul, following the early January fatal shooting of a Minnesota substitute ...

For the first time in their 100-year history, the Rockettes welcomed middle school performers to their stage at Radio City Music Hall. The Basie Jewels, a student jazz ensemble from MS 72, the ...

The NYC Employees PPO (NYCE PPO) health care plan will replace the GHI CBP plan for in-service city workers and pre-Medicare retirees on Jan. 1, 2026. The following are answers to members’ most common ...

Nick Chapman, Former President, Virtual Enterprises International Reina Utsunomiya, Senior Director, Early College and Career Schools, NYC Department of Education ...

“I love my job, but it’s hard to think that I may have to work for so long when my predecessors didn’t have to. I see the teachers at my school who are getting ready for retirement at 55 and that ...

Driven by a growing student demand for more opportunities to build job-related skills, the College Board continues to expand its footprint to focus on career exploration and preparation in addition to ...

The Delegate Assembly approved two resolutions at both the Jan. 14 and Dec. 10 meetings. The measure that closed the Jan. 14 meeting and was passed by 90% of the body called for the UFT to stage an ...

Since retiring in 1995, Eva-Lee Baird has faithfully attended Retired Teachers Chapter meetings and kept up with the issues. But it wasn’t until the RTC launched the Labor Solidarity Project in late ...

The UFT wants state lawmakers and the governor to deliver on a number of priorities key to best serving New York City educators and the students they serve, including fixing Tier 6, revising the state ...