Students at the three schools — all part of the UFT’s Community Learning Schools Initiative — had their holiday wishes granted thanks to the generosity of anonymous donors and a partnership with New York Cares.
UFT members at Staten Island’s IS 24 filled the school’s library prior to classes on Jan. 16 for a meeting with UFT President Michael Mulgrew. The union leader addressed concerns that the educators had about the Danielson Framework for Teaching, teacher evaluations and contract negotiations. Mulgrew also discussed universal, full-day pre-K and his eagerness to work with the new administration to move education in the right direction. “It is nice to have a conversation with a chancellor who spent 22 years in the classroom,” Mulgrew said.
AFT President Randi Weingarten blasted Newark and state school officials at a recent rally for failing to support the district’s schools while cutting budgets and aggressively expanding charters in what has become a high-profile battle in New Jersey...
After a near doubling of political donations from individuals affiliated with charter schools, the Texas state Legislature passed a law dramatically increasing the number of charter schools allowed in the state.
Thirty-one thousand machinists’ union members at Boeing in Washington state on Jan. 3 approved by a slim margin a new contract in which the company guaranteed to base its production of a new model of airplane in the state in exchange for significant...
Roughly 1.3 million out-of-work Americans received a post-Christmas jolt as their unemployment insurance ended abruptly on Dec. 28 after Congress failed to renew it.
Saying the state is looking at a budget surplus for the first time since 2007, Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled tax breaks for businesses and property owners and called for statewide universal pre-K in his State of the State address in Albany on Jan. 8.
The recent disability fraud scam involving more than 100 former cops, firefighters and others is a disgrace. It was an insult to the many first responders to ground zero on 9/11 who legitimately deserve to receive their disability benefits after...