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Governor gets a beachfront bashing

More than 250 protesters converged outside the East Hampton beachfront estate of hedge-fund billionaire Dan Loeb on July 11 as those inside dined at a $5,000-a-plate fundraiser for Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Legislature blunts worst of Cuomo’s initiatives

Despite a $13 million advertising campaign, hedge-fund executives were unable to engineer the passage of an education tax credit for wealthy donors or an increase in the statewide charter cap in the state legislative session that wrapped up on June...

State names 144 schools that could face ‘receivership’

The State Education Department this month identified 144 struggling and persistently struggling schools statewide — 62 of them in New York City — that could be turned over to an outside administrator or “receiver” if they do not meet performance...

Hourly rate for supervisors

Hourly rate for supervisors of therapists and nurses with a master's plus 10 years' experience and longevity.

Hourly rate for nurses

Hourly rate for nurses with a master's plus 10 years' experience and longevity.

Hourly rate for therapists

Hourly rate for senior therapists with a master's plus 10 years' experience and longevity.

AFT endorses Hillary in 2016

It may be summer, but educators are already looking ahead to the 2016 election.

Celebrating marriage equality

In a June 26 ceremony performed by Mayor Bill de Blasio on the steps of City Hall, social studies teacher Katrina Council exchanged vows with her fiancée Sara Joseph in a wedding celebrating that day’s historic Supreme Court ruling declaring marriage...

Pride March

Close to 100 UFT members joined with thousands of other revelers in this year’s jubilant Pride March on June 28, just two days after the Supreme Court declared marriage equality the law of the land.

Schools to close for Lunar New Year

The 2015–16 New York City public school calendar was revised on June 23 when it was announced that schools would close on Feb. 8, 2016, in observance of Lunar New Year.