More than 8 million broadcast and cable TV viewers in the New York area are expected to see a new television ad sponsored by the UFT that highlights the dedication of New York City public school educators.
News stories | September 27, 2012>>
After seven days off the job, 26,000 Chicago public school teachers ended their strike and returned to work — with a tentative contract deal in hand — on Sept. 19. Their strike was the first teachers strike in Chicago in 25 years.
News stories | September 27, 2012>>
The school community at P53, in Brooklyn’s East New York, may have bid farewell to their longtime school building last spring, but the school’s teachers, parents and students began this school year together, thanks to an impressive victory they won against the city’s Panel for Educational Policy last year.
PCB woes show DOE’s poor repair timeline News stories | September 27, 2012>>
PCB woes show DOE’s poor repair timeline News stories | September 27, 2012>>
Just days into the school year, teachers and students at two schools have faced the risk of PCB-laden light fixtures leaking into their classrooms and offices.
Testimony | September 27, 2012>>
Catalina Fortino, UFT vice president for education, testified before the New York City Council Committees on Education and Immigration.
News briefs | September 27, 2012>>
Examining the effects of incentives on student effort and achievement, researchers find that incentives framed as the risk of losing a special privilege or reward produce greater test score gains than the promise of receiving a reward after a desired goal is met.
News briefs | September 27, 2012>>
Even as New York City recouped the hundreds of thousands of private-sector jobs lost after December 2007, the onset of the last recession, those private-sector jobs covered by a union contract shrank by 95,000 — or 20 percent, according to a new report by scholars affiliated with the City University of New York’s Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and LaboiPhone manufacturer accused of forced student labor News briefs | September 27, 2012>>
On the eve of Apple’s unveiling of its latest iPhone, the company’s manufacturing partner in China, Foxconn Technology, came under fire over allegations that students were being compelled to work on assembly lines at plants making iPhones.
News briefs | September 27, 2012>>
Under a collective-bargaining law passed last year in Wisconsin, school districts no longer have to automatically raise the salaries of teachers with an advanced degree. Now, many teachers caught partway through costly graduate programs are reassessing the value to them of an uncompensated advanced degree. At the same time, graduate schools of education are seeing enrollments decline and are reassessing what courses to offer Studies.cher ‘growth’ scores released to districts
The State Education Department sent “growth” scores for grade 4-8 English language arts and math teachers to districts statewide, but the scores will not be made public as they were last year. A new state law, passed in June, restricts public access to teacher data.
Wireless Generation, a for-profit education subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., lost out to four other companies on a lucrative technology contract after the State Education Department, at the behest of the state comptroller, scrapped a previous no-bid contract to the firm and put the contract up for competitive bidding.
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