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You may take time following the death of a family member without loss of CAR days. If your parent, child, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, spouse or domestic partner, or parent of spouse or domestic ...

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.

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, ...

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 ...

Despite the city’s best efforts to derail the class size law through years of failing to adequately hire staff or plan school construction, the UFT is determined to hold the city accountable and ...

“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 ...

The New York City Council unanimously passed the "Respect Check" legislation (Intro 0692-A) which will provide each NYC public school paraprofessional a $10,000 payment outside of collective ...

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 ...

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 ...