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The Committee on Freedom of Association that is part of the International Labor Organization (ILO) of the United Nations found last week tha...

A good friend took notes for me as I was watching my two year old daughter. President Mulgrew's report: People who hate us learned a les...

The decay of public education in New York City over the past decade has been documented in great detail by ATR Marc Epstein, who is a former...

Our roaming ATR correspondent describes a week spent at Long Island City High School as a Ghost Teacher. One has to ask how the UFT and DOE...

An ATR from Jamaica sent this email to me yesterday. Reported to LI City HS today as five day ATR, a nice looking, modern building, six stor...

Wednesday was the first DA of this school year. Without giving away any state secrets, we will attempt to report on the DA as fast as possib...

Leroy Allison was an Elevator Operator at Jamaica High School. His last day on the job was last Friday. Leroy was one of the 700 school su...

Come to DC 37 on Saturday to see and/or participate in the trial that will at least let people express their anger at mayoral control . http...

The press has discovered that the Absent Teacher Reserves are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. We have seen the reports from ...

We Are ATRS: Absolutely Teaching Ready – but denied the opportunity by the Department of Education. They’ve closed our schools, reduced the ...

Irma Segovia is a Spanish teacher who recently was improperly excessed from Jamaica High School. It was a wrongful excess because Ms. Segov...

On Tuesday the Absent Teacher Reserves from Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island were compelled to go to the Brooklyn Museum to attend a job f...

Tuesday was the day for the latest ATR job fair where experienced teachers had to line up for what we have been told were very few positions...

ATRs About half of the UFT staff from Jamaica High, and I'm sure many other closing schools too, were recently placed into excess becaus...

If you haven't already done so, then go on over to the NYC ATR Teacher blog for some real honest insight into the life of an Absent Tea...

If you are anywhere near a radio or a computer tomorrow, then tune in at 6:00 p.m. to WBAI's Building Bridges show . WBAI is at 99.5 FM...

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NEWS CONFERENCE 11am, Tuesday, August 30 th Make Verizon Pay Back the Money it Made from a Fraud on our Schools and Settle a Fair Contract ...

There is a newspaper editor that understands education and the American ideal of equality of opportunity. Read the Queens Chronicle's ...

Watch and enjoy Democracy Now as Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez interview two people, Diane Ravitch and Brian Jones, who know the facts when...