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It's not just in NYC where school administrators pressure teachers to pass every kid with a pulse so they can award high school diplomas...

One of the most loathsome figures who I met in the course of the school closing battle at Jamaica High School was John White. White was a De...

I'm up tonight in the process of grading three sets of final project term papers (Middle College HS works on a trimester model to align ...

I was on the UFT Executive Board for a decade from 1997-2007 representing the high schools in opposition to Randi Weingarten and Michael Mul...

Harris Lirtzman sent me this very interesting set of numbers from the city's Independent Budget Office . It seems the group being hired...

We sometimes actually convince our Union to do what is right. Last month we complained here  about how the UFT Vice Presidents for High Sch...

Jennifer Berkshire has written a piece in TheBaffler.com that every teacher, parent and student in a public school as well as Democratic Pa...

New principal Kayode Ayetiwa decided in his first year that the way to improve education at Humanities and the Arts Magnet High School in Qu...

We have been reporting for months on the IBEW strike against Charter Spectrum, the cable giant that used to be Time Warner Cable. The strik...

 The city being the city and the DOE being the DOE means contracts are made to be broken as long as they are the ones benefiting by violatin...

Over at NYC Educator , Arthur Goldstein, Chapter Leader at Francis Lewis High School, has written what is now a recurring post on the useles...

Last Wednesday at the Delegate Assembly , UFT President Michael Mulgrew made a big deal about how we can use the contract and a joint letter...

This video shines the light in 2 minutes and 38 seconds on the Republican tax bill in a masterful way. Corporations win-middle class, incl...

FYI Dear Colleagues, The Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers recognize that lesson plans are a professional r...

The UFT is in uncharted water with the threat of the Janus Supreme Court decision coming in 2018 that will almost certainly make union dues...

Today is the November Delegate Assembly. I apologize for any errors from my not so smartphone. President's Report President Mulgrew c...

No need for mourning today. 83% voted against a constitutional convention for NYS. Labor's mobilization was excellent. What a differen...

I will have a difficult time being upset with tonight's election results because when I voted I saw a bulletin board at PS 191Q showing ...

I was asked repeatedly on Monday who I would be supporting for mayor. Let's just examine our choices: Bill deBlasio is endorsed by the...