Around the UFT
Dance teacher gets Bethune honor
The UFT's African American Heritage Committee held its annual awards dinner on Feb. 7 at Antun’s Queens Village.
Messages ‘resonated’
The sixth annual Black History Film Series at UFT headquarters in Manhattan, celebrating Black History Month, drew the largest crowds ever for the event.
Two former chapter leaders receive Council endorsements
Resolutions to endorse two former chapter leaders in their efforts to be elected to the City Council in 2021 were unanimously approved at the Feb. 12 Delegate Assembly.
Prepping kids for high-growth jobs
More than 70 outstanding educators were honored at the UFT’s annual Career and Technical Education Awards ceremony on Feb. 7 at UFT headquarters in Manhattan.
District teams get training
Around 200 UFT members gathered for a weekend retreat in February to learn how they can make a difference for their co-workers, families and communities as members of the union’s new district-level political action teams.
'Tolerance is not enough'
Speak Truth to Power, a collaboration between Discovery Education and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights supported by the union, illuminates students’ and teachers’ roles in fighting human rights abuses and offers educational experiences and online tools to help them.