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School-based employees currently on an approved leave of absence are now required to use the Department of Education’s Self-Service Online Leave Application System (SOLAS) to inform the DOE of their intention to return to work, retire, resign, extend...

The state Legislature signed off on a final state budget on March 31 that will deliver an extra $465 million to New York City schools next year, a 6 percent increase that is the largest in eight years. 


With Gov. Andrew Cuomo pressuring state lawmakers to pass his misguided education proposals as part of the state budget, 1,100 UFT members on March 12 converged on the state capital to shift the focus to the real priority: getting the state to pay...

No one discusses one of the great challenges to public schools: over-the-counter admissions. Public schools must accept students at any time during the school year. Students from other countries often arrive without records, making class placement...

The United Nations released an unsurprising report on violence and sexual assault against women. Using role play and role reversal, we can increase the empathy of boys by putting them in the shoes of girls in threatening or demeaning scenes to...

After reading your article on Pearson [March 5], I had a question: Why is a private company allowed to monopolize public education?

A student from Ecuador says her first complete sentence in English. A boy chooses to tell his teacher about his feelings rather than throw a tantrum. A class learns the difference between opinion and fact.

In Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s angry ultimatum on education, he inserted $8 million into his executive budget to fix the state’s lowest-performing schools using “receivership,” a strategy with two decades worth of weak results.

Protests against Cuomo’s harmful public education agenda peaked in New York City on March 12, when parents, their children and educators joined hands to form a human chain around their buildings as if to protect them from the governor’s proposals.