More than half of all U.S. public school students now receive free or reduced-price lunch, a new analysis of 2013 federal data reveals.

Labor unions joined with progressive lawmakers, consumer advocates, environmentalists, and social justice and human rights lobbyists to launch a campaign against trade legislation that would allow the president and Congress to speed approval of free...

A major political fight has broken out in Washington, D.C., over whether to change the No Child Left Behind Act’s annual testing requirements, considered by many to be its defining feature, as Congress gears up to reauthorize the chief federal...

The new teacher evaluations are out, and it comes as no surprise that the reformers are not pleased. Their assumption is that low standardized test scores must mean bad teaching.

Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña’s long-awaited announcement of the closing of the school networks created by Joel Klein is a milestone worthy of celebration. It is a decisive break with an organizational approach that, however well-meaning, was...

The UFT kicked off its celebration of Career and Technical Education Month with a bang when almost 450 teachers and their friends, family, colleagues and students turned out for the largest-ever Celebrating Career and Technical Education Awards Recognition Ceremony at the union’s lower Manhattan headquarters on Feb. 5.

The article “Keeping calm” [Jan. 8] about PS 45 on Staten Island is fantastic. It’s important for educators to reflect on our relationships with the students. I love that the article highlights not only that we should identify student triggers but...

The last horde of public funds left is the school budget. Private charter schools run for profit can make huge donations to politicians so once again the 1 percent has a windfall.

I read the Public Education Under Attack article “College debt crisis keeps growing” [Jan. 8]. It is criminal that the U.S. government is making a huge profit off student loan debt.

I have been in MyLibraryNYC since the first year. Teachers just use their library card (educator card provided) to order online what they want (up to 100 books!) and the books are delivered to our school.