The contract provides for a major expansion of virtual learning in New York City public schools. The DOE’s current centrally run pilot program will be expanded. The expansion would begin next school ...

Must I enroll to obtain my Welfare Fund benefits? Yes, Enrollment with the Welfare Fund is required before members can access their benefits. Our video demonstrates how to create and access your UFT ...

The following FAQ, organized by topic, answers some of members' most-asked questions about the contract agreement.

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, ...

“This is just a small token of what my members really deserve,” School Secretaries Chapter Leader Sheryl Pender said of the UFT’s 39th annual School Secretaries Awards Soiree on June 5. Secretaries ...

Expecting parents in their last trimester are invited to attend a small group consultation with Queens leave specialists Greer Hansen and Anne Wine. Participants will have the opportunity to ask ...

Wherever administratively possible, elementary teacher programs should have no more than three consecutive teaching assignments and no more than four consecutive working assignments (including ...

About 1,700 UFT members and guests marked the union’s 65th anniversary at this year’s observance of Teacher Union Day on Nov. 2 by honoring union members past and present for their efforts to improve ...

George Altomare began his teaching career in 1953 as a social studies teacher at Astoria JHS. Frustrated by the poor pay and abysmal working conditions at the school, he and his school colleague, ...

“If the lesson doesn’t work, do we give up?” asked UFT President Mulgrew of the more than 1,600 UFT members at the union’s Spring Education Conference at the New York Hilton Midtown on May 17. “No! We ...

Dayniah Manderson’s favorite genre to teach in her 8th-grade English classes at Mott Hall Community School is dystopian fiction. “I love that the hero challenges the status quo because it coincides ...

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 ...