Thanks to a three-year effort by audiologists and their union, public school students now have access to hearing loss assessment in Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx and at two locations in Brooklyn. The ...

We’re at the midpoint of the two-year phase-in of the city’s new reading programs for elementary schools. Given the city’s diverse student population, the most pressing issue for educators has been ...

A restaurant in Chinatown was so packed with UFT members and their families on March 15 that the dancing lion could barely squeeze around the tables — not that anyone minded. The UFT Asian Heritage ...

For Shenelle Ali, walking into MS 137 every morning to teach social studies is “like coming home.” Something about the Ozone Park, Queens, middle school feels familial and comforting, said Ali, and ...

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 ...

Thousands of special education students in New York City public schools this school year are still without the services they are legally entitled to because of massive shortages of paraprofessionals, ...

The 11th-grader, a recent immigrant from Central America living in a city shelter, arrived some two hours late for the start of classes at John Adams HS in Ozone Park, Queens. He had his head down on ...

Thousands of teen parents in New York City successfully graduate high school and make the transition to the next phase of their lives with the help of the UFT’s Living for the Young Family program, ...

About 1,500 new teachers became proud new members of the UFT at the opening day of the Department of Education's annual New Teacher Week. "This one-on-one connection is where it starts," said UFT Vice ...

Some days, I don’t know why I decided to teach Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” Yesterday was one of those days. “She could have said this whole page in one sentence, literally one sentence,” the cool ...

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 ...

The UFT is pushing New York State to update the formula it uses to allocate Foundation Aid to better reflect the actual cost of education and the particular needs of each school district’s students.