Around the UFT
Fashion Show at Maxwell Career and Technical Education HS
Student talent — from fashion and award design to culinary and musical skill — was on display at William H. Maxwell Career and Technical Education HS in East New York, Brooklyn, as Maxwell hosted a fashion show on June 16.
New York City Pride March
Two hundred UFT members joined the city's annual Pride March down Fifth Avenue in June.
Bronx HS District and Pathways to Graduation Recognition Awards Ceremony
Seventeen students were honored and presented with laptops and printers at the UFT's first Bronx HS District and Pathway to Graduation Recognition Awards Ceremony and Dinner in June.
UFT members attend Brooklyn Cyclones game
UFT night at a Brooklyn Cyclones game has become an early-summer tradition and this year was no different.
Hero Day at PS 33, Queens
Celebrating marriage equality
In a June 26 ceremony performed by Mayor Bill de Blasio on the steps of City Hall, social studies teacher Katrina Council exchanged vows with her fiancée Sara Joseph in a wedding celebrating that day’s historic Supreme Court ruling declaring marriage equality in all 50 states.