UFT President Michael Mulgrew won his sixth term as the union’s president. Mulgrew and the Unity Caucus candidates received 54% of the vote. "I want to thank the tens of thousands of UFT members who ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

Forms of communication come and go, but public speaking has remained popular from ancient times through today. People tune into award shows primarily to watch the acceptance speeches. A speech can ...

Diffit for Teachers is an AI-powered software that is making my classroom fundamentally more inclusive. Teachers can make a free account. Text in the curriculum has usually been written to reach the ...

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew said the Trump administration's executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education will harm the nation's most vulnerable students.