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New York City must pay teachers half of the $900 million owed in back wages by October 31, an independent arbitrator said Friday. The decision came two days after New York City informed the city’s biggest teachers union on Thursday that it cannot afford to pay $900 million in back wages. The arbitrator heard from both sides Friday before declaring…

New York City informed the city’s biggest teachers union on Thursday that it cannot afford to pay $900 million in back wages. Citing the budget deficit and economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan told United Federations of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew in a letter that it is “unable to make a lump sum payment toactive…

United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew says the city informed him it cannot afford to pay $900 million in teachers’ back pay because of pandemic-related budget shortfall.

Monday marks exactly one week until the re-scheduled return of in-person classes in the nation’s largest public school district. Yet parents should be forewarned it could be re-scheduled yet again, as New York City’s biggest teachers’ union continues to protest what it says is a raw deal on testing. A total of 55 school-based Department of Education employees have...

To protest school reopenings, teachers took a day of action to prove their concern, Andrew Siff reports.

A number of New York City teachers are calling for this school year to be fully remote. Katherine Creag with the latest.

New York City public school teachers are holding a “Not Until It’s Safe” day of action on Monday to protest what they say are unsafe conditions at school buildings. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

New York City’s largest teachers’ union and City Hall have reached an agreement over a plan to safely reopen schools for part-time in-person learning, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday. The deal averts a potential strike authorization vote, which could have brought about the city’s first teachers’ strike since 1975. Under the new plan, the start of hybrid learning...

Instead going from remote to a full in-person learning curriculum, NYC students will start a blended learning program, Andrew Siff reports.

In-person classes will now start Sept. 21. Katherine Creag reports.

NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

Andrew Siff and Brian Thompson report on the latest in the coronavirus.

Earlier this month, the city’s largest teachers’ union threatened to strike — and that could still on the table if its agreements with de Blasio on how to safely welcome educators and kids back to in-person learning disintegrate further.The union’s at-time fractious relationship with City Hall has been made that much more tense by looming layoffs — 22,000 city workers,...