As any seasoned teacher will tell you, it’s important to start the school year off on a good note. Along with essentials like ...

The new academic year marks the start of the statewide bell-to-bell ban on cellphones and any other internet-enabled ...

It is the practice in many schools to prepare a draft of the IEP or sections of the IEP before the IEP team meeting. Learn ...

The goal of this section is to provide easy access to resources that educators and families frequently use to find ...

The Steuben Association’s mission is to promote opportunities for UFT members to embrace their German heritage with social, cultural, educational and linguistic activities and events.

In July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a plan to import the worst part of Medicare Advantage — prior authorizations — into traditional Medicare. Prior authorization ...

Getting her daughter ready for kindergarten was the key reason Guzel Jach joined more than 1,000 other parents and guardians at the UFT’s fourth annual back-to-school supplies giveaway and barbecue on ...

James J. McBratney was just 12 when a family tragedy could have derailed his life. But today, McBratney, a product of Staten Island public schools, is a successful business owner and financial adviser ...

As a first-year teacher, you are doing everything for the first time. The first time planning a lesson. The first time having to manage a classroom. The first time grading. The first time trying to ...

The Trump administration has unilaterally stripped hundreds of thousands of federal workers of their union contracts after a federal appeals court overruled a lower-court injunction that had halted ...

In New York City and eight other downstate New York counties, EmblemHealth would provide both doctor and hospital coverage, allowing for continued, uninterrupted care from the doctors that members ...

Fifteen years ago, retired elementary school teacher Luann Martin began volunteering a few times a year with a soup kitchen after learning about it from her church. At the time, Martin was a full-time ...