By Michael Mulgrew
President, United Federation of Teachers

Charter schools can play an important role in public education.

There is a certain irony in the fact that one of the giants of the UFT's history, our former president Albert Shanker, was one of the originators of the idea...

Rubber rooms, where New York City teachers can sit for years while being investigated or while going through a hearing process, don't work for anyone. They don't work for schools, students or teachers.

Fixing this problem has been a high priority for me ever since I became President of the...