As a result of our intense negotiations with the DOE over our concerns with the NYC Solves curriculum, the DOE is releasing ...

Member participation builds our union’s power. That’s why we launched Union Power Points, a new program that encourages ...

The fact that the Justice Department is holding you hostage on your criminal case does not mean that you are free to ignore your responsibilities to the children and educators of New York City. Since ...

Eligible educators can deduct from their federal income taxes up to $300 of unreimbursed expenses from 2024 for books, supplies, computer equipment (including related software and services), other ...

For the past 14 years, Adrianna DeAngelis has taught a pre-K class at Birch Family Services, a nonprofit agency that runs educational, employment, family support and residential programs for people ...

So you taught it only yesterday, but today your students remember none of it! As a middle school social studies teacher, I’ve faced this challenge countless times. This year, while teaching ...

Retiree Mark Grashow was visiting a high school in northern Zimbabwe 18 years ago when a teacher showed him a battered edition of “Romeo and Juliet,” which no students were allowed to touch or read ...

Are you not receiving an invitation to RTC monthly membership meetings? Did you miss the union’s updates about negotiations between Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Anthem? Email is now the ...

Facts were the focus of a UFT workshop about how educators can support undocumented students and their families as the new administration steps up immigration enforcement. UFT members from the union’s ...

Reading scores dropped to a new low on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress, while math scores were stagnant for 8th-graders and up slightly for 4th-graders. The NAEP results, often ...

Emy Vanderpool wasn’t ready to retire in the summer of 2022, but she had no choice due to health reasons. “I felt so lost, like I lost my purpose,” she said. That changed when the retired music ...

Union members enrolled in the UFT Welfare Fund and their eligible dependents can now get eyeglasses or contact lenses more frequently, for less money out of pocket and from more optical stores than ...