A packed auditorium of parents, community members and friends cheered on the 12 public school teams from across the city competing in the high-energy step competition at PS/MS 147 in Cambria Heights, Queens.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s education agenda took a solid one-two to the gut, courtesy of two of New York City’s heavy hitters during a joint budget hearing on education in Albany on Feb. 3. UFT President Michael Mulgrew and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña...

Although charter schools are required to serve high-needs students at the same rate as most district schools, the truth is they don’t. A hard look at the data shows they aren’t even close.

Pearson Education, the British education and publishing giant, is in the vanguard of the growing movement to privatize public education, and its tentacles are reaching far and wide in the United States and abroad.

Thanks to a partnership of First Book and the UFT, each kindergarten through 3rd-grade teacher at Washington Heights Academy received 25 books for each of their classroom libraries. And every single student in those grades will receive six books to...

"Eva vs. public schools"
Eva Moskowitz says her charter schools are public schools and so deserve public funding and public-school space. But she is closing her 32 schools on March 4 to bus students, staff and parents to Albany. Public schools would...

Michael Mulgrew is right on target [“Cuomo’s out of touch,” Feb. 5]. It is poverty and inequality that prevent children from learning effectively.

It has been a truly great year for CTE, and there is more to come. The stars are aligned for us, with support plentiful at the city, state and federal levels. Everyone is looking to CTE.

Gail Salem, an actress-turned-top-realtor, was a daydreamer as a child. The first teacher to penetrate Salem’s fanciful fortress of make believe was Mrs. Leherer, her 3rd-grade teacher at PS 184 in Whitestone, Queens, in the 1960s.

Nearly 400 school social workers and psychologists attended the ninth annual Clinical Professional Development for the Social Workers and Psychologists Chapter at UFT headquarters on Feb. 9.