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Mayor Adams seeks to pour more good money after bad in surrender to teaching unions before election
Fearful of United Federation of Teachers election-season backlash, Mayor Adams has OK’d “hold harmless” school funding.
Daughter of teachers' union boss has $165K job in city agency under probe
Meghan Mulgew is “Senior Advisor to the Executive Deputy Commissioner of Asset and Property Management" in the city’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services.
UFT president supports Hochul’s smartphone ban in schools but wants districts to have a say, too
The head of the powerful United Federation of Teachers union supports Gov. Kathy Hochul's push to ban smartphones in New York schools -- but says individual districts should have the...
The DOE is struggling with banning phones in class because it's already destroyed school discipline
Under a rumored city Department of Education plan to implement a cellphone ban across all 1,600 city public schools, students would be banned from using phones in schools.
For our kids, any Democrat win means schoolhouse madness
As the American Federation of Teachers holds its annual conference in Houston, expect to hear more of the deranged politicized rhetoric that was spewed at the gathering of its sister...
AFT to vote on controversial proposals -- including ending US military aid to Israel, protecting pro-Palestinian protesters
The American Federation of Teachers -- the union representing New York's public school teachers and college professors and urban educators across the country -- has drafted anti-Israel resolutions calling for...
Success Academy's Regents results again prove charters are a win for kids
In June, Success' middle schoolers took the 2024 New York State Regents Exams and beat the 2023 results of nearly 200,000 regular public high schoolers, outperforming them by more than...
Prepping for Trump vs. Biden debate: Letters to the Editor — June 27, 2024
Readers discuss the lead-up to the first debate between President Biden and Donald Trump on CNN.
UFT boss Michael Mulgrew threatens to blow $600 million hole in NYC finances
If United Federation of Teachers boss Michael Mulgrew and the Municipal Labor Committee back out of their Medicare Advantage deal with the city, costing it $600 million a year, their...
Reversing course, NYC teachers union president opposes changes to Medicare
United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew has withdrawn support for controversial changes to health care for thousands of retirees after his slate of allies got trounced in union elections...
Biden's California fundraiser: Letters to the Editor — June 19, 2024
NY Post readers discuss ex-Prez Barack Obama leading President Biden offstage at major fundraising event.
Retired NYC teachers toss out union prez's crew in furor over Medicare coverage
Retired city educators furious over proposed changes to their health care have toppled a union slate allied with powerful United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew.
How powerful forces 'from left to right' came together to stop NYC's controversial congestion pricing program
An extraordinarily broad coalition of powerful people who often don't see eye to eye joined forces and prompted Gov. Kathy Hochul to blink and scuttle the controversial $15 congestion toll...
Truckers sue NY over controversial $15 congestion toll to enter Manhattan
Truckers have joined the conga line of opponents who've filed lawsuits to block the controversial first-in-nation congestion toll to enter Manhattan's business district south of 60th Street.
New York City school spending has gone insane
New York City is spending billions more on its public schools despite falling enrollment, notes a new Citizens Budget Commission report, headed to a jaw-dropping $39,304 per-pupil in Fiscal Year...
First lady Jill Biden claims Trump would 'destroy' public education if president in speech to teachers union
“Donald Trump doesn’t want to strengthen our public education system — he wants to destroy it,” the first lady said in a barely camouflaged campaign screed.
Now NO ONE truly really runs New York City's public school system
CUNY Graduate Center Prof. David Bloomfield described the plan as a “putrid kettle of fish cooked up by the Legislature.”
NYC congestion pricing will take a toll on Chinatown businesses, critics argue
The controversial first-in-the-nation $15 congestion toll to enter the Manhattan business district south of 60th Street will put a dent in the economy of Chinatown, critics said Thursday.
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.