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NYC tries to blame remote school failures on students with summer guilt trip
Remote school was, is and always will be a disaster. Why are NYC public schools and David Banks so fixated on it?
Chicago Teachers Union's $50B demands include pay hikes, abortions, and migrant accommodations -- at $2K per migrant
The incredible demands are being made despite its members delivering underwhelming results for its students, with only 21 percent of the city’s eighth graders being proficient readers, according to the last Nation’s...
NYC teachers union's lawyers blast MTA's decision with setting June 30 start date for controversial $15 congestion toll
The lawyers for the teachers' union lawsuit seeking to block the first-in-the-nation congestion pricing scheme sent a letter to a federal judge flunking the MTA's announcement that the new $15...
Albany just chose to play politics with NYC schools — at our kids' expense
Parents, children and everyone who cares about education should be raising hell and demanding the Legislature revisit this issue before the end of the school year.
Comeback kid Andrew Cuomo needs to show real contrition for his many, many sins
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears to be seeking a political comeback, yet to pull that off, he'll need to show real contrition for his many sins while in office —...
The class-size law is about to cause misery for countless city public-school families
A new state mandate that's starting to phase in could have devastating consequences for unsuspecting families who will be apply to schools next year.
If Albany doesn't extend mayoral control of schools, many NYC students are doomed
Their No. 1 priority? Eliminating mayoral control of our schools.
NYC teachers in transit deserts fear congestion pricing: 'City doesn't care about Staten Island'
"I don’t want to leave but I’m not making enough to stick with the congestion prices," said teacher Carly Bianchini who lives on Staten Island but works in Manhattan.
Teachers' unions should stop claiming credit for COVID classroom wins
The American Federation of Teachers and Chicago Teachers Union are falsely insinuating they got kids back into classrooms during COVID.
Democratic elites hate charter schools BECAUSE they perform better and give disadvantaged kids a chance
Black charter-school students outperformed their district counterparts by 19 percentage points in English and 27 percentage points in math.
NYC charter school students outscore public school peers on state English, math exams
New York City charter school students outscored their counterparts in traditional public schools on the state's grades 3-to-8 English and math exams last academic year.
School fight! Teachers union sues Mayor Adams over school budget cuts
The teachers union claims Adams broke the law by imposing $550 million in mid-year spending cuts to the public school system as the city grapples with a migrant crisis.
Biden's war on Musk, Ohtani’s sweet tax scheme and other commentary
From the right: Biden’s War on Musk President Biden “is employing agencies of the federal government to harass and punish Elon Musk . . . because the mercurial entrepreneur has the temerity...
Randi Weingarten lies, lies and lies again about closing schools during COVID
Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers president, repeated the lie that teachers “unions worked hard to reopen US schools for safe in-person learning beginning back in April 2020.”
Teachers' union boss blames math test slide on COVID — after fighting to keep remote learning
AFT President Randi Weingarten tangled with Presidents Trump and Biden over plans to fully reopen schools in 2020 and 2021 — and now blames COVID for the slump in math...
Why Dems alienate working class, Sandra Day O’Connor, RIP and other commentary
Liberal: Why Dems Alienate Working Class “The key schism” at the “heart of dysfunction within the Democratic Party and the U.S. political system more broadly is between professionals associated with...
Florida teachers’ union accused of strong-arming educators to join in effort to boost lagging numbers
An American Federation of Teachers-affiliated union in Miami-Dade County, Fla., has been hit with a pair of complaints accusing officials of coercing educators to join up in a bid to...
It's not migrants — saving New York City requires union concessions
It’s a transparent attempt by Adams to lock in big labor’s support for his own mayoral reelection — never mind that he’s selling out city residents.
The New York Times discovers school-lockdown learning loss — three years late
It must be exhausting to work for The New York Times, to study the world like an army of Captain Renaults, suddenly "shocked, shocked!" to discover a truth everyone already knows.
Eric Adams needs to cut budget fat, not cops, to avoid fiscal disaster
Mayor Eric Adams is planning to reduce the number of cops to early 1990s level as part of budget cuts needed thanks in large part to the migrant crisis, but...