<div id="subtitle">As Obama seeks more charter schools, unions push for bigger role</div><div><p>As the Obama administration pushes for more charter schools, a teachers' union is pushing for a bigger role in them.</p><p>It's a new development for the charter school ...

<div id="subtitle">States should cooperate on ending the glaring inconsistencies among academic standards</div><div><p> A new study has confirmed what many critics of the No Child Left Behind federal education law have said all along, that many school districts judged as failures would be judged as successes if only ...

<div><p>On January 23, United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten waited by the phone for hours until after 2 a.m. to learn David Paterson's final decision on whether she or Kirsten Gillibrand, the last two candidates standing, would take Hillary Clinton's seat in the senate. </p><p&gt ...

<div><p>Caroline Kennedy seems to have charmed Randi Weingarten. </p><p>Everyone loves Charlie Rangel, which is going to make it tough to take his chairmanship away from him--if need be. </p><p>State Senator-elect Hiram Monserrate brought his injured girlfriend to a hospital that was not ...