The United Federation of Teachers, in a proposed amendment to a City Council resolution, today called for charter schools seeking free space in New York City public school buildings to be required to make public financial data and political donations, along with student demographics, suspension rates, and teacher and student attrition.

After Mayor Bloomberg announced a lawsuit against the UFT concerning the terms of an agreement to assign more arbitrators to hear cases against teachers, UFT President Michael Mulgrew responded by bringing attention to the Bloomberg administration's mismanagement.

A United Federation of Teachers survey has shown that more than 230,000 students — the equivalent of almost a quarter of the entire school system — spent part or all of their first few weeks of school in overcrowded classes.

Thousands of elementary and middle school classrooms began the second week of September without all the materials they need to teach the new Common Core curriculum, according to a survey of chapter leaders by the United Federation of Teachers.

Preliminary returns from a recent UFT survey of school chapter leaders show that most schools are still missing all or part of the materials they need to teach the new common core curriculum.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew issued a statement in response to the results of the first set of state tests tied to the new Common Core standards.

Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson gave a speech today outlining his vision for the city’s public schools and slamming Mayor Bloomberg’s education policies. Among the goals cited by Thompson, a former head of the Board of Education, were expanding the city’s prekindergarten programs and the number of Community Learning Schools, an initiative that was launched by the UFT.

Mulgrew urges next mayor to "drain the swamp" of DOE bureaucracy, reduce paperwork burden on teachers and administrators, find new ways to engage parents