Category: Education

December 19, 2013 By Billy Easton, Executive Director of the Alliance for Quality Education  The Governor’s plan for $2 billion in election-year tax cuts and giveaways shows just how out

December 16, 2013 By Oren M. Levin-Waldman, Ph.D. The unemployment rate in December fell to 7.0 percent, but that figure is misleading. The jobless rate is most likely higher because

December 13, 2013 By Steven Wishnia By a margin of 620 to 10, graduate-student employees at New York University voted to rejoin the United Auto Workers Dec. 10-11. The vote

December 10, 2013 By Marc Bussanich Newark, NJ—Around the country on Monday numerous teacher union members rallied in cities and towns to protest public school budget cuts, decaying facilities and

Decmeber 6, 2013 By Oren Levin-Waldman Minimum wage arguments centered on employment or poverty both miss the point. Opponents argue the standard model that raising the minimum will lead to

November 25, 2013 By Randy Weingarten, AFT President Washington DC —The action by Senate Democrats is a last resort to help our government function. Between filibusters, government shutdowns and holding

November 20, 2013 By Oren M. Levin-Waldman Among the problems that we as a nation have been grappling with since the end of the Great Recession, which ended in 2009,

November 18, 2013 Reprint: nysut.org Buffalo, N.Y. – More than 260 workers at Head Start and Early Head Start sites across Erie County have voted overwhelmingly to organize and affiliate

November 15, 2013 Dr. Leonard Golubchick, Adjunct  Professor  St. Johns University, Metropolitan College of New York , Metropolitan College of New York, Principal PS 20 Man. Ret., A realistic approach

November 15, 2013 By Neal Tepel Institutional Investor has put AFT President Randi Weingarten first in its inaugural ranking of the 40 most influential players in the fight for—and against—defined