NEW YORK -- Activists holding "pink slips" have scattered across lower Manhattan to call attention to the millions of unemployed. Organizers had pred...
HuffingtonPost.com | Myles Miller | Posted 09.26.2011
New York City principals have rooted out their worst teachers as tenure numbers dipped to new lows. Only 58 percent of eligible teachers were grant...
Posted 09.16.2011
The New York City Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers agreed Friday on an evaluation and compensation system at 33 failing c...
Michele Somerville | Posted 08.08.2011
The way to make genuine change in a system that is failing hundreds of thousands of children is to revitalize the weakest schools.
Peter Zucker | Posted 07.24.2011
I have known Stu for almost 16 years. I met him the very first day I started teaching. I took an instant liking to Stu. Even then, way back in 1995, Stu knew how to fix the schools.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.18.2011
NEW YORK -- The battle between New York City's teachers union and its school officials reached its latest crescendo in the form of a lawsuit Wednesday...
HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 07.12.2011
Thousands of teachers, social workers, union members and more took part in a march Thursday against Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plans for wide-ranging b...
Alan Singer | Posted 07.09.2011
New York City teachers and the United Federation of Teachers have initiated a militant and radical response to the latest budget cut proposals made by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Peter Zucker | Posted 06.20.2011
In March of 2010 we had the elections for the United Federation of Teachers. Somehow, someway, the Unity caucus, headed by President Mike Mulgrew, received 91 percent of the vote.
Robert Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011
Whether it's under the guise of education reform or an opportunistic power grab, life as union members know it may be changing forever.
Posted 05.25.2011
The Daily News today is drawing some attention the The United Federation of Teachers' spending. Namely, that they spent $1.4 million on a 50th anniver...
nypost.com | YOAV GONEN Education Reporter | Posted 05.25.2011
A month into her appointment as incoming schools chancellor and more than a week after getting state approval for the role, Cathie Black has yet to me...
Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011
If Ms. Black had had any knowledge of the NYC school system, the difficulties faced by many students, teachers and parents, here's what she might have said.
Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Michael Bloomberg set off shockwaves when he picked media executive Cathie Black to be the next chancellor of New York City's public schools. As...
Peter Zucker | Posted 05.25.2011
This is not the time for the teachers of NYC to roll out the welcome mat and bring cookies and milk. This is the time to start taking the offensive. I believe the deform movement is on the ropes.
Christopher Reeve | Posted 05.25.2011
While I am very disappointed that Mayor Bloomberg selected a new schools chancellor with no experience whatsoever in public education, I have to remain optimistic that our NYC kids will not be shortchanged in any way.
The Huffington Post | Jonah Green | Posted 05.25.2011
Gothamschools reported today that the executive editor of the Queens Tribune is alleging the New York Post fabricated his recent op/ed about teachers'...
HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011
This story has been updated The American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union in the country, claims to respect the legacy of lo...
Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011
A new film -- Waiting for Superman -- will send shockwaves through the political debate on education and will force the issue for the November elections.
Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
By making Waiting For Superman, Guggenheim should assume responsibility for the reforms he's pressing. I don't doubt his earnestness, but his recommendations are vague and can promote untested, potentially dangerous initiatives.
Thelma Adams | Posted 05.25.2011
In Madeleine Sackler's affecting new documentary, The Lottery, the 27-year-old intended to create a cinema verite view of the families of four children who entered a lottery for 475 coveted spots at the Harlem Success Academy.
Michael Mulgrew | Posted 05.25.2011
In a groundbreaking agreement between the United Federation of Teachers and the Department of Education, we have agreed to shut New York city's rubber rooms down.
Scott Olster | Posted 05.25.2011
In New York City, the computer is poised to move to the head of the class, particularly as a tool to increase graduation rates.
Leonie Haimson | Posted 05.25.2011
On Friday, Judge Joan Lobis of the New York State Supreme Court nullified Chancellor Klein's decisions to close 19 middle and high schools in New York...
Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011
Until it's made clear just what the real agenda is for charter schools, I remain skeptical that they are going to do much more than accelerate the trend to a two-tier educational system.
AP | Posted 03.06.2012