As any seasoned teacher will tell you, it’s important to start the school year off on a good note. Along with essentials like ...

The new academic year marks the start of the statewide bell-to-bell ban on cellphones and any other internet-enabled ...

The goal of this section is to provide easy access to resources that educators and families frequently use to find ...

The Steuben Association’s mission is to promote opportunities for UFT members to embrace their German heritage with social, cultural, educational and linguistic activities and events.

It is the practice in many schools to prepare a draft of the IEP or sections of the IEP before the IEP team meeting. Learn more » ...

Most of us spend a considerable amount of time preparing for the start of school. We design bulletin boards, handouts, newsletters, lesson plans and opening-day icebreakers. But don’t forget another ...

Pedagogical employees of the city Department of Education who are injured or made sick on the job are covered by the Line of Duty Injury provision of the DOE-UFT contract — not workers’ compensation.

Getting her daughter ready for kindergarten was the key reason Guzel Jach joined more than 1,000 other parents and guardians at the UFT’s fourth annual back-to-school supplies giveaway and barbecue on ...

James J. McBratney was just 12 when a family tragedy could have derailed his life. But today, McBratney, a product of Staten Island public schools, is a successful business owner and financial adviser ...

As a first-year teacher, you are doing everything for the first time. The first time planning a lesson. The first time having to manage a classroom. The first time grading. The first time trying to ...

The Trump administration has unilaterally stripped hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their union contracts after a federal appeals court overruled a lower-court injunction that had halted ...

In New York City and eight other downstate New York counties, EmblemHealth would provide both doctor and hospital coverage, allowing for continued, uninterrupted care from the doctors that members ...