With SNAP benefits currently blocked by the federal government, we've compiled food assistance resources, including maps and ...

May is National Speech-Language-Hearing Month (formerly Better Hearing and Speech Month), a time to raise awareness about communication disorders and ways to improve the quality of life for those who ...

Dance musician and psychoanalyst may seem like worlds apart, but they share surprising common threads, says retiree Carla Levy, who made the transition after 31 years as a New York City public school ...

Research shows that students who participate in social-emotional learning (SEL) programs do better in school — both academically and socially. Not only do student achievement scores rise with exposure ...

The city Department of Education has released this year’s allotments for the Teacher’s Choice program, which reimburses eligible UFT members for some of the supplemental instructional supplies they ...

I provide care before and after school for students — and during the day for infants and toddlers — from my home in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Right now, I’m caring for my grandsons, who are 2 and 9, and ...

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plans to lay off thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown, siding with unions, which have argued that the dismissals ...

New York City workers and their families can now rest assured that they will have premium-free health care coverage for the next five years thanks to the new New York City Employees PPO health plan.

In the weeks leading up to the Nov. 4 election, the Retired Teachers Chapter held a dozen afternoon phone banks at UFT headquarters in Manhattan, where RTC members urged fellow retirees to vote for ...

UFT members who have requested to transfer from the Board of Education Retirement System (BERS) to the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) must complete and notarize a key form by Dec. 10 for their ...

The Toshiba America Foundation awards grants of up to $5,000 to teachers in grades 6–12 to support innovative, inquiry-based projects designed by individual or small teams of teachers to improve ...

Retired UFT members joined Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks across the five boroughs and on Long Island in October. Retirees contributed in other ways as well. At the Staten Island Si Beagle ...