Puerto Rico’s governor is using the damage inflicted by Hurricane Maria as justification to push school privatization. Eleven months after the hurricane, the first charter school opened on the island this August.

As in all the Septembers before, thousands of new educators have accepted the challenge to make a difference in the lives of New York City’s public school children.

We have a lot of work ahead of us to ensure the UFT remains a formidable force, but we have reason to be optimistic.

New York City has long grappled with the de facto segregation in its schools, especially its eight sought-after specialized high schools, whose students are predominantly white or Asian.

With the Supreme Court ready to hear the anti-union Janus v. AFSCME case: We can all complain about something, very true.

Private school voucher programs do take money away from public schools.

Each Trump nominee for a cabinet post has a public record of opposing the work of the agency he or she would oversee or has a financial stake in business regulated by the agency.

Republicans have railed for years against federal intrusion in state government — and especially public education.