Category: Education

March 10, 2015 Cynthia DiBartolo, CEO, Tigress Financial Partners In his 2015 State of the State address Governor Andrew Cuomo, speaking about the challenges facing New York’s public schools, attacked

March 10, 2015 By Neal Tepel New York, NY – NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie A. Miner are calling on the Empire State to finally meet

March 5, 2014 By Neal Tepel Long Island, NY –  Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has announced an agreement with the Hempstead Union Free School District to ensure educational access

February 27, 2015 By Marc Bussanich  New York, NY—Just like the graduate students of New York University did in 1998, grad students at The New School want the administration to

February 27, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY –  With well coordinated anti-union and anti-worker campaigns continuing to march across the nation, a growing number of labor groups and independent

February 26, 2015 By Marc Bussanich New York, NY—Throughout the country on Wednesday adjunct professors staged a walkout at numerous colleges and universities to protest low pay and tenuous working

February 25, 2015 By Neal Tepel New York, NY – Governor Cuomo's proposal for the takeover of struggling schools has many flaws. The legislation is part of his budget proposal.

February 19, 2015 By Joe Maniscalco New York, NY – United Federation of Teachers [UFT] President Michael Mulgrew blasted Governor Cuomo from the steps of City Hall this week, charging the

February 17, 2015 Adjunct professors at Boston University voted by a 2-to-1 margin to unionize Feb. 4, making it the fourth Boston-area college where part-time faculty have joined Faculty Forward,

February 17, 2015 Late last month, Wisconsin Gov.Scott Walker told an Iowa audience that the state’s “outstanding teacher of the year” in 2010-11 had been laid off because union seniority