The city will pay jobless teachers to quit if they aren’t interested in working in schools, according to an internal Department of Education memo explaining the provisions of the new teachers union contract agreement.
READ MORE Reallocating tutoring time to professional development and parent outreach makes sense to many, but others note that professional development can vary widely in quality—and question whether teacher training ever trumps instructional time.
READ MORE Middle school math teacher José Luis Vilson argues that city students need more teachers who look like them—and like him, in an exclusive excerpt from his new book, “This is Not a Test.”
READ MORE Twenty-four-year-old Kadeem Gill, a math teacher at The Equity Project Charter School, sees reflections of his own family in the students he teaches. His story is one part of our series The Teacher Project.
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