OTHER STORIES

• In the pink

  From clothing to cupcakes, schools throughout the city went pink throughout the month of October to support a good cause: breast cancer awareness.

• UFT in new budget battle

  “Don’t break the promises we have made to kids,” UFT President Mulgrew told the state Senate.

• Member actions needed to head off cuts

  On the eve of the governor’s proposed $223 million in midyear budget cuts, the UFT needs an “army” of political volunteers to try to head off disaster.

• ‘Follow the C4E money,’ Farkas tells Council

  New York City schools’ Contract for Excellence (C4E), an outgrowth of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity’s 13-year lawsuit to improve school funding, “needs to be monitored carefully to ensure the critical funds deliver the desired results for our children,” UFT Vice President Richard Farkas told the City Council Education Committee.

• Casey: Use federal funds for ‘comprehensive’ evaluation model

  Leo Casey, the UFT vice president of academic high schools, proposed using federal Race to the Top funds for “a comprehensive model of teacher evaluation” in a discussion among education reformers about how to use money that may come from the new, competitive federal education improvement grant program.

• National tests show no progress in math

  Teachers have been telling the UFT that there is too much emphasis on teaching to the state standards as measured by state tests. Now, the results of the national math tests this year support their claims.