OT/PTs are permitted to take three days of virtual professional development (live webinars) remotely per school year. A fourth virtual professional development day (live webinar) can be taken remotely ...

School related professionals play an essential role in supporting the varied needs of students. This issue of the New York Teacher is dedicated to these UFT members. They number more than 46,000 in ...

Monday, Dec. 23, will now be a school holiday, thanks to union advocacy, parental support and a student petition backed by UFT members from across the city. UFT President Michael Mulgrew, New York ...

The IRS has announced how much employees can contribute to their tax-deferred annuity account in the 2025 calendar year. If you are under age 50, the maximum amount you can contribute to your TDA in ...

The UFT is holding elections for president and other officers, executive board members and convention delegates in 2025.

UFT volunteers transformed Shanker Hall at union headquarters into a wonderland of candy-cane balloons, games and crafts for ...

While most of my job as a school counselor involves counseling students individually and in groups, a big part is also helping teachers support their students’ social-emotional growth in the classroom ...

Tom Murphy, the union's political director for 16 years and the chair of the Retired Teachers Chapter for 15, received the Charles Cogen Award, the union's highest honor, at Teacher Union Day on Nov.

If you have opted for Medicare’s voluntary prescription drug rider (Part D) for 2025, you may potentially spend less out of pocket for prescription drugs. Under the federal Inflation Reduction Act of ...

There are excellent online audio and visual resources that speech improvement teachers and classroom teachers alike can use to help students develop their listening and speaking skills. These ...

“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 ...

More than 50,000 graduate students and other student workers on 51 university campuses nationwide have formed unions since 2022, according to the National Labor Relations Board. The organizing ...