About 500 public school parents spent a busy day attending workshops and listening to speakers at the annual Brooklyn Parent Conference on Nov. 4.

We all encounter difficult people in our lives, and whether it’s a family member, co-worker or supervisor, difficult people can turn a good day into a dramatically bad one if you don’t have strategies for dealing with the challenge.

The UFT and NYSUT filed a lawsuit on Oct. 12 to prevent the weakening of teacher certification standards after the SUNY Board of Trustees Charter Schools Committee voted the previous day to allow some charter schools to create their own in-house...

Attorneys general in 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in October against U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over her department’s decision to block Obama-era protections for students attending for-profit colleges.

Congress missed a Sept. 30 deadline to renew the Children’s Health Insurance Program, allowing the program to expire.

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled in October that the state’s new school finance system is unconstitutional, sending the issue back to the state Legislature ahead of an election-year legislative session.

The photo that accompanied the “Grants, Awards and Freebies” column [Oct. 5] depicts an unsafe laboratory practice. Before starting a laboratory exercise, goggles are made available to students and students are told all “long hair” should be tied...

President Trump continues to give educators opportunities to teach civics and government.

I had the pleasure of working with and for Bob Astrowsky [see “Cherished UFT leader Bob Astrowsky dies,” Oct. 5] when he was the UFT Brooklyn borough representative and I was the UFT District 13 representative.

Thank you, UFT [“UFT helps nearly 7,000 avoid termination,” Oct. 5].