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The Role(s) of the State: Graduation Measures and/or Phonics-based Instruction?

UFT Members: Why are we being misled on contract negotiations?

Cross-Union Retirees Organizing Committee To Hold People's Hearing about Medicare Advantage - City Hall, Wednesday 5/24 at 9:30 AM

UFT: Let’s Fight for the Contract We Deserve

THE BIG 5 CONTRACT DEMANDS: Rank & File UFTers and Caucuses Call For a REAL Fair Contract

OVER 8K HAVE SIGNED THE HEALTHCARE PETITION; RANK AND FILE MEMBERS MAKE PREMIUM-FREE, QUALITY HEALTHCARE A CONTRACT DEMAND

A Conversation about the New York Health Act

UFT Contract Update: Countdown for ‘Chump Change?’

Teachers, Teacher Unions and Parents As the Defenders of Public Education

A Tale of Two Teachers Union -- Norm Scott writes in Indypendent

Opinion: Teachers’ Health Plan Debate Speaks to Larger Problems with UFT Leadership

Expansion of AP courses & exams: a boon to equity or undermining quality education?

Magic Bullets: The Secret Sauce to Raise Reading Scores

UFT: our tenure system is broken.

UFT: what makes a union powerful?

One Down, One to Go: The Budget Wars

UFT Gets Bad News on Budget

A Conversation with Arthur Goldstein; The Voices of the Westside High School Community And Their Fight Against DOE's Re-Site Proposal

🚨 In Just a Few Minutes - Don't Miss a Special 'Talk Out of School' Radio/Podcast Live Stream (7 PM, WBAI 99.5 FM)

Can Hochul Become an Uber-Powerful Governor?

SAVE E.A.R. Westside High School - The City's First (Alternative) Transfer School

Advocacy Matters: Are You a Citizen Lobbyist?

UFT Endorsements are Imminent – Let’s Make Informed Votes

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Mon. 4/17/23

The debate over NY State high-stakes graduation exams

My Union Dues Pay Lawyers to Threaten Me

DC 37, PBA, Is the UFT Contract Next?

Is it time for New York City Charter Schools to be Absorbed into a Redesigned New York City School System?

🚨 URGENT CALL TO ACTION 🚨 - RALLY FOR OUR HEALTHCARE - TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 12 PM AT CITY HALL

Teachers Are Not Meant to Be Martyrs: Why We Need to Give Educators More Power to Shape Policy: High School Graduation Requirements

Activism Is Circulating the Petition

+5K Union Proud Signees: The UFT Healthcare Referendum Petition Continues to Steamroll

Conversations with Mike Shulman and Estherll Dorancy

Rep. Bowman's new bill, More Teaching Less Testing, and the PEP vote to approve the Mayor's education budget

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Mon. 4/03/23

Collective Bargaining: How Might the UFT and the City Reach a Contract Settlement?

Michael Mulgrew Is the Fearmonger-in-Chief

UNITY ATTEMPTING TO SUPPRESS OUR LAWFUL PETITION CALLING FOR A MEMBER VOTE ON CHANGES TO HEALTHCARE

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Wed. 3/29/23

Teacher Unions Right to Strike: A Discussion

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Mon. 3/27/23

Mulgrew spooks members with a 6:00 AM non-update about taking our GHI

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Sun. 3/26/23

Striking is not Antiquated: L.A. education workers prove UFT leadership wrong with 30% Salary Increases

Bloomberg Buys a Governor: a Romance or a One-Night Stand?

Who Is Denigrating the UFT?

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Fri. 3/24/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Thurs. 3/23/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Tues. 3/21/23

Teachers Buck Mulgrew, Petition for Referendum Vote On Medicare Advantage

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Mon. 3/20/23

Are Teacher Strikes Antiquated? How Should Teachers/Teacher Unions Respond to the Current Attacks on Teachers and Public Education?

*UFT Members: Call to Action* -- Sign The Petition for a Union-Wide Healthcare Referendum Vote

Why doesn’t UFT leadership want us to have the right to strike?

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Fri. 3/17/23

Governor Hochul and Charter Schools Why Has She Thrown Down the Gauntlet?

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Thurs. 3/16/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Wed. 3/15/23

Q: Can Retirees Vote on Their Health Care? Mulgrew: No

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Tues. 3/14/23

Dr. Starita Boyce Ansari of the New 3Rs; and Voices of the People's Budget Rally

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Mon. 3/13/23

Think outside the rubric. Teach outside the box.

Latest Talk Out of School: Influx of refugee students in NYC schools & the Chicago mayoral race

On School Suspensions

Union Elections Have Consequences

City Union Leaders Approve Controversial Medicare Advantage Retiree Health Care

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Fri. 3/10/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Thur. 3/09/23

It now costs $100 for UFT to use an Urgent Care. A few months ago it was $50. UFT, it’s time to start paying attention.

How will “Ability to Pay” and “Pattern Bargaining Impact UFT Contract Negotiations?

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Wed. 3/08/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Tues. 3/07/23

Urgent Call to Action: People's Budget Campaign Rally, Tomorrow, 3/7 at 11 AM, City Hall

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Mon. 3/06/23

Urgent Call To Action: Retiree Orgs Mobilize to Fight Being Forced into the City's and MLC's Aetna Medicare Advantage Plan

Saving CUNY: Fighting the Good Fight – We Need You to Join the Fight

Mike Mulgrew Writes a Letter to Retirees

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Sun. 3/05/23

UFT/MLC to Greenlight MAP Nuclear Option

Max Politics Podcast: UFT President Mike Mulgrew on Contract Negotiations, Charter Schools, & More

We Heard You Loud and Clear

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Fri. 3/03/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Thur. 3/02/23

UFT Contract Update and Analysis – Get Ready for a Pay Cut

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Wed 3/01/23

Conversations with Reporter Matt Barnum & Zara Nasir, Director of The People's Plan NYC

Important Contract Update: Another City union has a Deal!

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Tues 2/28/23

The Reading Wars: Balanced Literacy v Phonics, Rekindled

Retiree Health Care--The Nuclear Option

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Mon. 2/27/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Sat. 2/25/23

UFT/DC37 Contract Watch – It Gets Worse

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Fri. 2/24/23

UFT/Unity/AFT/NYSUT Bait and Switch Pro-Privatization Healthcare Duplicity, Playing Swap the Lobbyists Game

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Thur. 2/23/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Wed. 2/22/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Tues 2/21/23

UFT Leadership Chooses Sacred Cows Over Member Health

Is it time for New York City Charter Schools to be absorbed into a redesigned New York City School System?

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Mon 2/20/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Sat 2/18/23

DC37 Sets Pattern Below Mostly Non-Unionized U.S. Average

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Fri. 2/17/23

Leaked MLC Minutes: Some unions not paying dues, health plans being negotiated, disagreement over whether healthcare must be settled before city workers can get new contracts

Hundreds of NYC Elementary Schools Used a Teachers College Reading Curriculum Banks Said ‘Has Not Worked’

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Thur. 2/16/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Wed. 2/15/23

Teachers Are Not Meant to Be Martyrs: Why We Need to Give Educators More Power to Shape Policy: High School Graduation Requirements

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Tues. 2/14/23 ❤️

Latest Talk Out of School: The nationwide assault on public schools through privatization

NYSUT News: Going-Pres. Andy Pallotta, Coming - Melinda Person / Who? Has Never Been a Teacher/ Succession or Coup?

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Mon. 2/13/23

Mr. Mulgrew, WHERE IS YOUR HOMEWORK? - The UFT’s New York Health Act Scandal and a possible UFT Constitutional Crisis.

Why is UFT Leadership undermining the New York Health Act? Learn more about NYHA at Town Hall slated for 2/16!

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Sat. 2/11/23

What a Community Education Council Does and How to Join One

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Fri. 2/10/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Thur. 2/09/23

What the Heck Is in the Contract?

UFT Contract Teach-Ins Raise Profile with Members and gets good ratings/ Some Talk - strike prep (shhh) in schools/ Report on Jan. 29 Pep Rally - and other News

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Wed. 2/08/23

The Complexities, Uncertainties and Skirmishes of Contract Negotiations: the UFT v Adams

UFT High School Executive Board Update - Mid Year Report (2022-23)

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Tues. 2/07/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Mon. 2/06/23

A Conversation about the Early Childhood Education Crisis in NYC Public Schools

UFT vs. Charters: Could new NYC charter schools mean layoffs down the road?

EONYC PUBLIC SCHOOL AND UNION PROUD & STRONG Photo Contest - Win a Visa Gift Card.

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Sat. 2/04/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Fri. 2/03/23

Lessons from the UFT Teach-Ins

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Thur. 2/02/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Wed. 2/01/23

City Workers Losing Patience With Slow Crawl to Union Contracts

Need to Reform School Disciplinary Policies

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Tues. 1/31/23

Watch EONYC's Online Inter-Caucus Forum about our UFT Contract

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Mon. 1/30/23

UFT: Let’s do those contract teach-ins right today

** Don't Miss This, Today!** Contract Teach-In Pep Rally - Sun, 1/29 @ 7pm - An EONYC Zoom Forum Event

UFT CONTRACT TEACH-INS: CAN WE AT LEAST ALL HAVE THE SAME SET OF FACTS TO WORK FROM?

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Sat. 1/28/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Fri. 1/27/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Thur. 1/26/23

The Digest: Top EduNews Hotlist, Wed. 1/25/23

Fighting for a Fair Contract: Contract Teach-In Pep Rally - Sun, 1/29 @ 7pm - An EONYC Zoom Forum Event

On The Record With Michael Mulgrew: Class Size Matters' Leonie Haimson Speaks to UFT President Mulgrew about new NYS Class Size Law

When the Union Wins, We Win!

Educate, Agitate, Organize: Two Can't-Miss Upcoming Union Organizing Events

Latest Talk Out of School Podcast: Conversations with Jose Vilson and Marianne Pizzitola

Tonight: A Very Special Talk Out of School Broadcast with Jose Vilson and Marianne Pizzitola

UFT Leadership Wants to Preserve Choice (for Those Who Can Afford It)

Proposed charter school co-locations

Tell the City Council to Vote NO and RETAIN the City's Minimum Contribution to Our Health Care

Why are NY city unions hurting their own retirees?

Pledge to Share Your Testimony to City Council To Tell Them: DO NOT AMEND 12-126

Pledge to Share Your Testimony to City Council To Tell Them: DO NOT AMEND 12-126

Urgent Call To Action: Let CM De La Rosa, Speaker Adams & the City Council Progressive Caucus Know, Today - DO NOT AMEND CODE 12-126

UFT INCONSISTENCY ON PRIVATIZING SCHOOLS VS. HEALTHCARE COULD COME BACK TO BITE US

Best and worst of 2022, and hopes for 2023 with Diane Ravitch and others