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Need another reason to vote against anyone running on Unity slate, how about a sex scandal? This is just one symptom of Unity's arroganc...

This was in the Organizer and I have seen it at other places too. Clarification on ATR Ratings As a member of the ATR pool, you and m...

Thanks to Harry Lirtzman for sending me the latest Independent Budget Office report on New York City tax revenues called Tale of the Taxes ...

I usually read The Organizer. It is an online publication written by retired Unity Caucus member Gene Mann who was a longtime chapter leader...

There is interesting news from the 2020 campaign for the Democratic Party nomination for President. Seems Kamala Harris wants to raise teach...

This email came yesterday from the Executive Director of Class Size Matters, Leonie Haimson, asking us to  call legislators to get class siz...

The contrast couldn't be more striking. Teachers in Louisville, Kentucky defying their union by calling out sick and shutting down the s...

Below is a piece that our union dues paid for in City and State penned by UFT President Michael Mulgrew on the Positive Learning Collaborat...

It was a packed house with standing room only at the Queens Public Education Town Hall in Jackson Heights on Saturday. Diane Ravitch, Class...

We have an update from our correspondent inside Forest Hills High School. It is interesting to note that the print edition of the NY Teacher...

We have said for years that numerous safety incidents are swept under the rug in New York City schools and that Jamaica High School was pena...

Mayor Bill de Blasio has delusions of grandeur apparently as he tours the early primary states to test the waters for a possible presidentia...

I fully support the Network for Public Education . Any organization whose President is Diane Ravitch and Executive Director is Carol Burris ...

The UFT has finally joined in with the press and bloggers in publishing an article on the UFT Chapter's  No Confidence vote against For...

PUBLIC EDUCATION TOWN HALL Saturday, March 16, 2019       2:00–4:30PM Fiesta Hall 37-62 89th Street Jackson Heights 7 train to 90th St...

The following  piece came to us from our Forest Hills High School insider. For more, see the Queens Chronicle.  There was a huge anti B...

The normally happy talking UFT President Michael Mulgrew is admitting that there are major problems in the schools with discipline and order...

We have been sent an insider's account on Sean Davenport. He is the supervising superintendent sent to oversee Forest Hills High School...

I don't often use this space to fight New York's internal political battles outside of education, particularly when there is so much...

The press and bloggers continue to cover the situation at Forest Hills High School with Principal Ben Sherman. The NY Post has an update de...