The New York City Association of Foreign Language Teachers/UFT’s annual spring professional development conference attracted 75 educators to UFT headquarters in Manhattan for the group’s second ...

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 ...

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, ...

As of Sept. 28, 2022, the state Education Department created a new Students with Disabilities (All Grades) certificate that permits teachers to teach students with disabilities in pre-K through Grade ...

UFT members at the six sites that make up District 31 Pre-K Centers on Staten Island are no longer staying silent in the face of mistreatment from their principal, thanks to Chapter Leader Amy Craine.

When Chapter Leader Debbie Strack Cregan returned to work at PS 69 in Jackson Heights, Queens, in the spring of 2023 following medical leave for knee replacement surgery, she didn’t recognize her ...

The UFT’s New Member Initiative and Member Assistance Program welcomed new educators this school year with activity-based events in all five boroughs to foster fun, community and learning. As UFT Vice ...

See summer payroll dates for pedagogues, paraprofessionals, substitute paraprofessionals and members working in the Chapter 683 special education summer program.

As any seasoned teacher will tell you, it’s important to start the school year off on a good note. Along with essentials like reviewing classroom rules and units of study, icebreakers play a key role ...

“We’re the protectors of our students’ hopes and dreams,” UFT President Michael Mulgrew told the more than 1,100 members at the union’s Spring Education Conference at the New York Hilton Midtown on ...

The DOE school year payroll calendar lists pay periods for different payroll banks. Different job titles are paid through different banks: H-bank: Full-time school nurses, therapists, audiologists, ...

A "C" rating stands for "Can't be evaluated." It's usually given when a teacher has been out on a leave for a long enough part of a school year so as to not be able to be fairly evaluated.