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UPS rehires 250 workers it fired for job action

Buckling to public pressure, the United Parcel Service said it will no longer terminate the 250 unionized delivery drivers who participated in a 90-minute walkout in Queens on Feb. 26.

Go, Wildcats!

Members of Northwestern University’s Wildcats have scored a touchdown for the burgeoning college athlete labor movement.

‘Unfair’ ELA test draws widespread protests

Incensed by what they said were confusing, developmentally inappropriate or needlessly long questions on this year’s English language arts exams, teachers, parents and students at more than 35 schools in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn mounted early...

The Unorthodox Vera Fried

A pink-clad dynamo of a teacher, Vera Fried inspired students to think differently. They never forgot -- one just put her in his Hollywood movie.

Report cards count again

The system devised by the Bloomberg administration didn’t work. It didn’t work for students and it didn’t work for teachers, and now it’s gone.


New student promotion policy demotes test scores

Test scores in grades 3 through 8 will no longer be the dominant factor in deciding which students are promoted, according to a new policy unveiled on April 9 by Chancellor Carmen Fariña. Teachers and principals will also consider other measures —...

Frustration led to retirement

On my first day teaching middle school ESL for the DOE, a veteran teacher smirked, “In case you didn’t know, the Department of Education has nothing to do with education!”

Promotion policy change applauded

If all you have to do is pass the test to be promoted, then why bother doing anything in class the other 177 days of the school year?

Pre-K enrollment deadline approaching

The deadline to apply for free prekindergarten programs offered by the Department of Education is Wednesday, April 23.

At the Puerto Rico Annual Breakfast

RTC members in Puerto Rico came out in force for their Annual Breakfast on March 20 at the Condado Plaza Hilton Hotel in San Juan. Members were updated on pensions, retiree programs and services.