The UFT, drawing on City Council funding, has developed a two-hour training session that is being offered to all educators this spring and will teach simple strategies they can incorporate into their daily practice to help them assess and respond to stress in students.

Calling for more than $1 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds to be dedicated to the needs of students recovering emotionally and academically from the ravages of the pandemic, the UFT laid out a five-point recovery proposal.

Delegates at a special Delegate Assembly on April 19 voted to endorse Scott Stringer in the June 22 Democratic Primary for New York City mayor.

This is the April issue of the citywide parent newsletter.

The UFT and City Hall on April 8 negotiated a new protocol for closing classrooms and schools that shifts the focus to preventing in-school outbreaks.

The following email was sent from Nicholas Cruz, the UFT director of community and parent outreach, to all of the UFT's parent subscribers on Tuesday, April 6, 2021.