Feds roll back race guidelines on college applications
Another step back to a different era by the U.S. Department of Education, as the department prepares to roll back guidelines that encouraged the consideration of an applicant’s race in admissions. Read...Inside NYSUT: Don’t believe the anti-union spam!
Within hours of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Janus v. AFSCME, NYSUT members began receiving emails encouraging them to drop out of the union. The emails are part of a $10 million campaign by the Michigan-based Mackinac Center, a...Inside AFT: Brown University grad workers win right to union vote
The labor union for graduate employees at Brown University, Stand Up for Graduate Student Employees, won the right to vote for official recognition when it signed an agreement with university administrators on June 21. The pact—among the first of its …Inside AFT: New York City teachers win paid parental leave
After months of intense negotiations and a public campaign by the United Federation of Teachers, educators in New York City have won paid parental leave. The policy, announced June 20, provides six weeks of time off at full salary for …