New York City Teachers

'Pervy Teachers' Accused Of Sexual Misconduct With Students Can't Get Fired

Posted 04.06.2012

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Sixteen teachers accused of various forms of sexual misconduct are still teaching in New York City schools, according to a New York Education Departme...

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The Children Of Occupy Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.18.2011

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NEW YORK -- As college students took center stage at a Tuesday afternoon Union Square rally on Occupy Wall Street's two-month anniversary, a smaller b...

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Protesters Affiliated With Occupy Wall Street Disrupt Department Of Education Meeting

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.25.2011

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NEW YORK -- When New York City schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott stood up to face a full Seward Park High School auditorium on the Lower East Side Tue...

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Tradeoffs: Reduce Class Sizes Or Increase Teacher Pay?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.05.2011

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NEW YORK -- Every morning at PS 148 in East Elmhurst, Queens, teacher Monique Bertolotti greets her 27 third graders, who speak English as a second la...

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Education Loses In Minn. Government Shutdown Compromise

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.17.2011

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On Monday afternoon, highway cars and intense security surrounded Minnesota's capitol building, where only officials, legislators and their aides were...

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Bloomberg's Schools Budget Deal Still Leaves Some Teachers Out Of Work

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.10.2011

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NEW YORK -- Andrea Schulman, an English as a Second Language teacher at P.S. 102 Bay View in Brooklyn, N.Y., for the past three years, knew it was onl...

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When Teachers Take to the Streets

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.11.2011

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NEW YORK -- It’s civil disobedience, schoolhouse style. As constrained budgets embroil state houses and city councils, igniting pitched debates a...

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Open Letter to Cathie Black

Brian Gresko | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ms. Black, don't think that you're blazing any trails here. In 2002, to much less fanfare, I also left Hearst Corporation for a job at the New York City Department of Education -- as a teacher.

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New York Teachers Paid To Do Nothing: 700 Of Them

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid...

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