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Tale of two Cuomos

In the 1980s, I brought my class of high school equivalency students to the World Trade Center for a New York City Board of Education function. On the way to the subway, to return to our South Bronx site, I spotted Mario Cuomo, accompanied by two...

Mulgrew, Farina jab Cuomo in Albany

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.

Hey, Bloomberg

Hey, Bloomberg, can you email me your education policies? They told me I gotta give a State of the State.

Visual praise with incentives

I created this visual praise with incentives graph for my pre-K class.

Cyber attack on Anthem (Blue Cross)

Cyber attackers executed a very sophisticated attack to gain unauthorized access to Anthem's parent company's IT system and have obtained personal information relating to consumers and Empire BlueCross BlueShield employees who are currently covered...

Absences for pedagogues

Teachers and other pedagogues are credited with one day of “sick leave” on the 16th of each month of the school year, or 10 days for a full school year of work.

UFT pair testifies at federal hearing on testing

Two New York City public school teachers testified before a U.S. Senate committee on how testing and accountability should be redefined in the federal law that provides funding for K–12 education nationwide.


Delegates urged to expand social media campaign

UFT President Michael Mulgrew asked delegates at the Delegate Assembly on Jan. 14 to encourage their colleagues to use social media to show how Governor Cuomo’s proposals on education would be destructive to public schools, educators and students.

Retiree tutors volunteer at Community Learning Schools

UFT retirees are volunteering in a new tutoring program designed to strengthen the basic literacy and math skills of struggling students in two of the UFT’s Community Learning Schools.