Peter Lamphere

New York City teachers’ union leaders pushed through a contract with big givebacks — at a time when educators are fighting and winning.

A long campaign among New York City teachers succeeded last month in pushing their union to fight for paid parental leave.

The president of a Puerto Rico teachers' union explains how educators are protecting schools in the aftermath of the hurricane.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio looks to be on the path to re-election, but is his record on education as good as he claims?

The campaign to remove a principal who is waging war on teachers at a progressive New York school hit a new level of militancy.

Parents have banded together with teachers at a public elementary school in New York City to demand a change in leadership.

Members of New York City's teachers' union will elect top officials this spring, but the outcome is tilted toward the status quo.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's education bill attacks teachers' unions while handing corporate reformers a major victory.

Mark Naison's Badass Teachers Unite! provides a full-throated defense of public education--and a vision to change it.

Even progressive charters create an environment that undercuts the possibility of democratic control of the school system.

Parents in New York state are showing growing opposition to education standards that fail both students and their teachers.

Teachers around the country weren't surprised to learn that evaluations based on testing were a key issue in Chicago showdown.

New York school officials and teachers union leaders reached a deal that cements the basic logic of all tests, all the time.

Reds at the Blackboard tells the story of a left-wing union for teachers that pioneered a strategy of social movement unionism.

The experience of one teacher in New York City raises questions about how ratings are handed out under the current school regime.

Bargaining for a contract is deadlocked over demands for concessions, while new anti-union laws and policies are already taking effect.

New York officials are demanding harsh new concessions from the United Federation of Teachers amid union elections.

Two strikers talk about the struggle at a cookie maker in the Bronx after more than half a year on the picket line.