Escalating their fight against the reimbursement of lessons in the classroom next month, a crowd of city staff massaged outside the schools of Richard Carranza’s apartment building in Brooklyn Thursday night to demand a delay of resumption. Carrying signs and singing, the throng claimed that the city failed to ensure …
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Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday increased the pressure for teachers to appear on the first day of school – and said it was “their job” – when he shot down pleas from teachers’ principals and unions to delay it again. The mayor was grilled over the pushback from the …
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The Department of Education released new protocols Thursday to handle any possible confirmed cases of coronavirus in schools this coming year. The DOE plan states that if one or more students in the same class test positive, their classrooms will close and anyone who has had close contact with those …
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An influential group of city teachers rejected Mayor de Blasio’s reopening of school buildings in September, and does not rule out a strike as a last resort. The caucus of the United Federation of Teachers’ Archive and Rank Educators Movement has already collected nearly 4,000 signatures demanding that schools remain …
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