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Every teacher in New York City has felt at least some of the pain that Francisco Garabitos exhibited last Friday when he allegedly barred ...

The Delegate Assembly featured a lengthy Contract speak out highlighted by a spirited debate between UFT President Randi Weingarten and Trum...

Bronx Borough Office Admitted Blunder May Cost Teacher His Job When Scott Weill, a tenured junior high school teacher, was served with charg...

Ever since we lost the right to grieve letters in the file the UFT leadership has been quick to note that there are "so many ways"...

The March 25 DA had a marathon Randi Weingarten report that was followed by a political endorsement and a resolution on special education. T...

Lisa North, from ICE, and I were able to testify at the State Assembly Education Committee's hearing in Brooklyn at the end of a long da...

Our extended year contract shows its ugly head. The good news is that next school year won't start in August. The bad news is that the s...

We wrote to the State again about how the class size reduction funds were "moved" at Jamaica High School and class sizes increased...

The DOE is closing Brandeis High School. Please go the link to an article on this terrible situation from the New York City Independent Me...

(Given at the UFT Delegate Assembly by Michael Fiorillo, Chapter Leader, Newcomers HS, February 4 th , 2009) Dear Delegates. I'd like to...

I am a historian of education on the faculty of New York University. My first book was a history of the New York City public schools, en...

News and Editorial by James Eterno; UFT Chapter Leader; Jamaica High School The February 2009 Delegate Assembly overwhelmingly endorsed t...