Michael Mulgrew

The Teacher's Candidate: The UFT Endorses Bill Thompson for Mayor

Made up of over 70,000 members, the United Federation of Teachers has demanded a voice in this upcoming mayoral election. President Michael Mulgrew told the Observer two weeks ago that he expected his union to sway the election; the reason why each Democratic candidate has gone above and beyond to c ... More >>

The Next Educator-in-Chief: What Will the New Mayor Do With a $25 Billion Budget?

The numbers for the Education budget are in and, once again, they're groundbreaking: In fiscal year 2014, City Hall will spend $25 billion--the most in New York City history--on a line item that takes up about a third of the overall city budget. But, with an election coming up, determining Bloomberg ... More >>

The UFT & PBA's Demand for Payback From New Mayor Faces Budget Realities

October 31st, 2009. For the teachers of New York City, this date marks the last day 94,000 of them had a contract with the Bloomberg administration. Since then, the wages for our city's educators have remained at a standstill, suspended by political tensions over layoffs, attrition and mayoral contr ... More >>

Gov. Cuomo Has Decided: The State Will Take Over Teacher Evaluations

Looks like State Education Commissioner John King wasn't kidding. Yesterday, the Associated Press was informed by an anonymous Cuomo administration official that, in his 30-day budget amendments coming up this week, the governor will position Albany to be the central arbiter of a still-not-disclose ... More >>

Gov. Cuomo To NYC: If No Teacher Evaluations Deal Is Made, The State Will Intervene

After letting $300 million in state funds slip out of our children's hands, coercion might be the only way to get Mayor Bloomberg's D.O.E. and the United Federation of Teachers to come to an agreement. Yesterday, Governor Cuomo told reporters that Albany has no problem imposing its own teacher eval ... More >>

Here's Why Bloomberg And The UFT Couldn't Come To A Deal On Teacher Evaluations

It's official: as of yesterday afternoon, the teachers union and the Mayor's education officials both walked out on negotiations for a teacher evaluations deal worth millions. That means that the January 17th deadline has come and went, placing New York State out of Race to the Top fund consideratio ... More >>

The Million(s)-Dollar Deadline For Teacher Evaluations Is Here, And There's No Deal

January 17th is the last day New York City education officials have to solve this teacher evaluations dilemma that's blocking millions of dollars in grants. And that day is upon us.Yesterday, the Mayor's Department of Education met with the United Federation of Teachers to create a last-minute solu ... More >>

State, Not UFT, Screwed Kids Out $250 Million With Teacher Eval Demands

For a sample of the over-wrought backlash that the United Federation of Teachers will face after failing to come to an agreement with the city on a new teacher evaluation system this afternoon, go check out today's opinion section in the NY Daily News. In an impressive show of mutual-strokage, the ... More >>

Bloomberg's Union Fight Over Teacher Evaluations

The Hozziner is gettin' a little feisty.Last Saturday, The Voice reported on the teacher evaluation argument that was brewing in Albany between the unions and Bloomberg over whether or not to release the information to parents or the public. The extremes were set in stone: the unions favored pa ... More >>

Educator of the Year—and Beyond

Mayor Bloomberg Wants More Control Over Sexual Misconduct Cases in Schools

Mike Bloomberg announced a new piece of legislation this afternoon that would give the mayor, via the city's school chancellor, more power to dismiss teachers who engage in acts of sexual misconduct in the classroom. You'd think that inappropriate sexual behavior form teachers is something everyon ... More >>

Teachers' Union Prez Mike Mulgrew Hit With Woodshop Sex and Blackmail Accusations

Nothing like a quick sex scandal to spice up a beautiful Sunday afternoon. In a 73-page lawsuit filed by a Manhattan teacher, the President of the United Federation of Teachers prez Michael Mulgrew, known for his heated relationship with Bloomberg's Education Department, has been accused of having ... More >>

Mayor Mike Bloomberg, United Federation of Teachers Agree on Evaluation Guidelines

Teachers and top pols in Albany have come to a last-minute evaluation agreement that should safeguard some $700 million in imperiled federal education funds -- barely making Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Feb. 16 deadline. And New York City has come to its own evaluation accord at 5:30 a.m., just in time for ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg: Let's Fire Bad Teachers!

​The city's teachers don't like Mike, but his sudden change of heart on a much-hated teacher evaluation law could smooth things over: he wants it to be easier to fire bad teachers but let poorly rated ones appeal their bad evals. After pushing repeatedly for unpopular evals -- even making a ... More >>

New Teachers Union Ad Attacking Mayor Starts Today

Watch out, Mr. Mayor! The United Federation of Teachers is launching an ad campaign today that attacks Mike Bloomberg -- who has loudly criticized the union at a handful of public appearances this year. At his State of the City speech earlier this month, the mayor went after the UFT for insisting on ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg: I'm Not Living in a Fantasy World, Students Are the Priority

After the mayor's State of the City speech yesterday, everyone's been talking about Bloomberg's words on education and teacher evaluation (less so, his mentions of Lady Gaga or Words With Friends). We caught up with a few predictably critical pols yesterday afternoon in the Bronx who all voluntari ... More >>

Parading While Black

After the arrest of a City Councilman, isn't it time to question the NYPD's crooked math?

Top 10 Quotes About Cathie Black's Departure

It's been a pretty eventful 24 hours on the education beat in New York City. Given how unpopular Cathie Black was before she even started as Chancellor, there was far less glee at her ouster than we were expecting. Many of her critics may be experiencing schadenfreude privately, but they weren't e ... More >>

Some Schools Could Lose 30 Percent of Teachers under Bloomberg Plan - WNYC

The Bloomberg Administration has announced that some schools could lose up to 30 percent of their teaching force, WNYC is reporting this morning. Under a worst-case scenario, the Department of Education is set to lay off one to five teachers at most schools, with some losing 30 percent of their ove ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg to Axe More Than 6,000 City Teachers

​Mayor Mike Bloomberg is set to announce that he plans to eliminate 6,100 teaching positions from the city's schools -- that's one out of every 12 -- according to Mike Bloomberg's media company. Bloomberg's Administration will layoff 4,666 teachers and lose another 1,500 to attrition. UFT Pre ... More >>

Cathie Black, Schools Chancellor: Liked by Nobody. (Updated)

​Mayor Bloomberg's announcement last week appointing Hearst executive Cathie Black as the city's new schools chancellor drew a lot of skepticism -- and ire -- from critics who think the magazine publisher isn't qualified enough (or...at all) for running the city's public schools. Last week, a stat ... More >>

This Guy Really Doesn't Want Cathie Black To Have That New Job

​The backlash against Mayor Bloomberg's new pick for city schools chancellor didn't take long to gather steam. A state senator-elect with ties to the teacher's union is already vying to block Cathie Black, the former Hearst Magazines chairman, from taking the job. He's urging state officials to de ... More >>

Breaking: NYC Dept. of Education Chancellor Joel Klein Steps Down, Replaced by Cathie Black, Former Magazine Exec.

​At a press conference today, Joel Klein -- the chancellor of New York City's Department of Education announced that he is stepping down from his position, to be replaced by now-former Hearst chairperson Cathie Black. She is the second chancellor of New York City's Department of Education sinc ... More >>

Three Reasons Why You Should Be Upset About Cathie Black, New NYC Schools Chancellor

​Cathie Black, the former chairwoman of Hearst Magazines, was just appointed to one of the most powerful positions in New York City by Mayor Bloomberg. To massively understate the case, this is a big deal. Here's why you should be concerned about it:

Michael Mulgrew Gloats on NY1 After Dubious Teachers Union "Victory" in Election

​The Michael Mulgrew victory tour took an embarrassing turn on NY1 last night, when the United Federation of Teachers president gloated throughout an extended interview, overstating a very mixed primary day report card.

Mike Bloomberg Saves 4,400 Teachers from Firing By Drawing the Wrath of all the Rest

Mayor Bloomberg prompted sighs of relief from 4,400 teachers today, while drawing the wrath of about 75,000 others, as well as many principals. Bloomberg announced that, to keep from massively cutting teaching jobs, he will instead freeze any raises for the next two years for teachers and principals ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg and Joel Klein Want More Charter Schools So Bad, They Went to Church

With the looming deadline to apply for federal Race to the Top education funds coming next week, Mayor Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein have been taking their call to increase the number of charter schools far and wide. This weekend, they took the word to church, reports Daily News writer ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg's Proposed Budget Slashes Teachers, Yet Still Pays to Recruit New Ones

​Faisal Shahzad may have inadvertently saved the jobs of a 1,000 cops in Mayor Mike Bloomberg's budget proposal, but nothing apparently could be done to save the jobs of 6,400 city teachers...Not even letting go of the $5 million dollars budgeted for new teacher recruitment. Yes, that's right ... More >>

State Senate Votes to More Than Double Number of Charter Schools

​The State Senate voted yesterday to raise the number of charter schools in the state to 460 from 200. Majority Leader John Sampson supported the legislation and, despite significant Democratic resistance, led it to a surprisingly bipartisan victory (45-15). More than doubling the number of c ... More >>

Education Mayor Bloomberg Called Out

NYC's head has a serious setback on his way to closing schools

Merryl Tisch, State Schools Chancellor, Doesn't Seem Too Worked Up About Losing Federal Funds

Go for the money, Merryl!​State schools chancellor and role model Merryl Tisch certainly sounded like she was showing New York's millions of public school kids how to throw in the towel Wednesday night. She told NY1's Lindsey Christ that the state might not even submit an applicat ... More >>

65,000 city pension checks disappear

​Bank of New York Mellon is blaming a bank processing error for $189 million in pension payments for retired school teachers which disappeared Thursday night. UFT President Michael Mulgrew said that calls from retirees about the missing money started coming into the union Friday morning. "Thes ... More >>

Barrett: Recalling When Mr. Tough-Guy Bloomberg Wasn't Too Tough to Purchase DC 37's Endorsement

Kissing union butt in 2005Mike Bloomberg is now boldly declaring that he "will not make irresponsible promises to win an endorsement," the tough-guy-standing-up-for-taxpayers stance he's using to explain why the largest municipal union, 125,000-member District Council 37, endorsed his opponent, Dem ... More >>

Bloomberg and the Teachers' Union

It's (almost) summertime, and the Mayor's campaigning is easy. So easy, he can roll over the union this time—and should.