By SHARON OTTERMAN
CHICAGO — Catching up to the reality already faced by many of its members, the nation’s largest teachers’ union on Monday affirmed for the first time that evidence of student learning must be considered in the evaluations of school teachers around the country.
In passing the new policy at its [...]

Posted By Philissa Cramer On June 28, 2011 @ 4:30 pm
A program that helps teachers pay for classroom supplies is set to be shut out of City Council funds.
For more than a quarter of a century, the council has assigned some of its discretionary funds to the Teacher’s Choice program, which gives [...]

By FERNANDA SANTOS
The threatened layoffs of 4,100 teachers in New York’s public schools were averted under a deal that the Bloomberg administration, the City Council and the teachers’ union reached on Friday night.
Details were still being worked out, but the agreement calls for concessions from the United Federation of Teachers [...]

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 - 12:29 PM
By Beth Fertig
The state teachers union has sued New York’s Board of Regents and the education commissioner in an effort to stop the implementation of a new system of teacher evaluation that relies more on student performance in standardized tests.
The federation of local unions [...]

May 18, 2011

by Chris Arp and Philissa Cramer
For the second time in two years, the city teachers union is suing to stop the Bloomberg administration from closing schools and opening new ones in their place.
The union’s lawsuit, which it filed along with the NAACP and a host of elected officials [...]

New York Times

March 16, 2011
By SAM DILLON

To improve its public schools, the United States should raise the status of the teaching profession by recruiting more qualified candidates, training them better and paying them more, according to a new report on comparative educational systems.

Andreas Schleicher, who oversees the international achievement [...]