A report by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association New Orleans, a community organization, has found that two-thirds of New Orleans public schools had registration forms that could discourage undocumented...

U.S. charter schools are increasingly funding their expansion through the issuance of municipal debt, with Texas schools leading the pack.

The Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity at the University of Minnesota Law School has released a report that concludes that Chicago’s massive experiment with charter schools has been a failure.

John Deasy, the controversial superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, resigned his position on Oct. 16 amid an investigation into the fairness of the bidding process for a $1.3 billion program to provide all Los Angeles public...

UFT members from MS 80 in the Bronx, who were walking in memory of a teacher who died of breast cancer in June, were among the thousands of UFT members who participated in this year’s Making Strides against Breast Cancer walk.

This is a battle over which party will control the state Senate. The outcome will greatly affect all of our state’s public school educators, students and schools.

We want our students to understand that having a job in our classroom goes beyond completing the job.

Colleagues, family and friends of Simeonette Mapes, a social studies teacher who helped found the School for the Classics in Brooklyn, gathered on Sept. 27 at a Staten Island street corner which was renamed in her honor during an intimate ceremony.

Harvest Collegiate HS is using the PROSE provision in the UFT contract to gain more freedom to veer from tradition this year. This year’s plan is to increase teacher leadership positions and conduct a grand experiment in peer evaluation.

Regarding the story about the agreement reached to reduce paperwork [Oct. 2]: Only teachers can make the necessary changes in their schools. Tell your union reps. Band together. Invite your district representative in. Do whatever it takes!