At an unprecedented time when concern for school safety is at an all-time high, today the New York State United Teachers Task Force, Safe Schools for All, released a report with recommendations for ed
Report suggests districts should shift away from traditional disciplinary models and instead develop therapeutic interventions and restorative practices
In the midst of another heat wave, following days of hurricane-related rain, local union leaders across the state are meeting waves of new teachers who are learning about new jobs, new schools and the unions they can claim as their own.
PUBLISHED 7:00 PM ET Jul. 15, 2021 PUBLISHED 7:00 PM EDT Jul. 15, 2021
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New York schools in the coming weeks will reopen and officials from the Biden administration on down to local teachers union officials hope all students will be able to attend in person. But there are questions over how the logistics of how schools, stretched thin by more than a year of crisis and uncertainty, will do so as the summer reaches the midway point. We strongly believe that every parent should have that option to have their child sit in a seat come September 8 when we re-open schools in New York state. It s time, said Kyle Belokopitsky, the executive director of the New York State PTA.