The UFT has turned up the pressure on City Council leaders to bring the "RESPECT check" bill for paraprofessionals to a ...

Public schools in New York city may hire external teachers (not currently employed by the Department of Education) in certain ...

United Community Schools works to improve student achievement by addressing the educational, emotional, social and health issues that can stand in the way of learning. In schools across New York City, ...

A high school where students do maintenance work on airplanes. A student-created clothing brand that sells out of a student-run, brick-and-mortar store. These were just a few of the innovative Career ...

Long-time student Jillian Demery is now a second-year teacher, making the grade at the front of the classroom, teaching 5th-grade special ed students. Her accounting background, she says, has helped ...

UFT members, along with their families and friends, raced against the clock on the coldest day of the year to find the answers to these questions and others at the first-ever UFT Middle School ...

Cardona, 45, has served as Connecticut's education commissioner since August 2019. Prior to that, he spent 20 years as an educator and administrator in the city of Meriden, where he was born and ...

When Iryna Kulyk, a paraprofessional at P 9 in Queens, approached the start line of the UFT’s eighth annual 5K Family Run/Walk on May 14, she was met by the sight of runners wearing ribbons bearing ...

Wearing a pink tie-dyed sweatshirt over a T-shirt emblazoned with a pink ribbon and the UFT logo, retired teacher Jeanne Casanovas stood behind a table piled high with pink scarves and hats. They were ...

On my first day on the job as a speech therapist in September 2020, my administration notified me that we were shifting to remote learning due to multiple cases of COVID-19 at our site. This school ...

Part 1 “Censored. Browbeaten. Overworked. Underpaid. Why, then, weren’t teachers lining up to join a union?” This segment takes a look at the low salaries, tyrannical supervisors and woeful working ...

Founded in 2012 by the United Federation of Teachers, United Community Schools (UCS) operates the largest community school network in New York City. Having started with just six schools, we have grown ...