Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, accompanied by UFT President Michael Mulgrew and AFT President Randi Weingarten, stopped in at two Ozone Park, Queens, schools on Sept. 3 to greet teachers as they arrived to prepare for opening day.

Three busloads of UFT members joined some 10,000 students, parents and educators in Albany on June 8 for the massive One Voice United rally organized by New York State United Teachers, the UFT’s state affiliate. The crowd stretched across the Empire State Plaza to speak out against insufficient education funding and the focus on high-stakes testing.

U.S. clothing retailers are lagging European brands in signing onto an accord for factory safety in Bangladesh.

Following alarming incidents of leaking and smoking PCB-laden light fixtures in New York City public schools this spring, the Department of Education agreed on May 22 to cut in half its time frame for replacing them.

Despite lawsuits filed by parents and concerns raised by independent hearing officers, the Chicago Board of Education on May 22 approved closing 49 schools, just four fewer than the 53 it had announced earlier this year.

Private foundations are giving an increasing amount of money to education. But they are directing it to a shrinking number of groups, and the losers are public schools and public universities.

A new report says the State of Louisiana has failed to adequately monitor its publicly funded charter schools to confirm that the schools’ reported numbers of graduates, dropouts and student attendance are true.

For the first time, Hispanics are entering college at a greater rate than white or black students, a new report shows. Their rate of enrollment in college has risen to 70 percent.

The Department of Education has finally agreed to speed its replacement of light fixtures laden with cancer-causing PCBs that threaten the health and safety of students and staff in 650 city schools.