Teacher departures are once again on the rise after a brief slowdown following the 2008 recession, according to a new UFT analysis of city Department of Education payroll data.

The attacks on New York City public schools and teachers would lead one to believe that all schools are failing. Charter school advocates would have you think the sky is falling.

Those who are planning the changes to ELL instruction have no idea of the needs of the English language learners [“Devil in the details,” Jan.7].

Besides the classroom library for independent reading [“Nurturing the joy of reading,” Teacher to teacher column, Jan. 7]

“JUIVE” was rubber-stamped across my mother’s identity card by the French police in 1942. This and the required wearing of the Jewish yellow star were preludes to rounding up Jews for deportation.

Governor Cuomo embraced community schools and universal pre-K in his State of the State address on Jan. 13. “We’ve come a long way from last year,” said UFT President Michael Mulgrew.

Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy charter school chain is under fire from all sides for its harsh discipline policies and treatment of students with special needs.
The network, the city’s largest operator of charter schools, now faces an investigation...

As hundreds of union leaders and members gathered outside the courthouse with protest signs, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Jan. 11 in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Union, a case that threatens to undermine the ability of the UFT...

UFT Vice President for Elementary Schools Karen Alford testified before the Joint City Council Committee on Education and General Welfare regarding the DOE's support for students who are homeless or in temporary housing.

When the English language learners in Carlos Rosello’s 9th-grade class at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice study literature, it’s total immersion. They perform scenes from the novel or play they’re reading in class.