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collective bargaining

collective bargaining

  • Paid Family Leave for City Teachers Now

    de Blasio classroom visit

    Mayor de Blasio visits a classroom (photo: Rob Bennett/Mayor's Office)


    Every work day for the past nine school years, I have taught and learned with young people from stressed economic backgrounds as a New York City public school teacher. Every day, I confront the realities of a system that puts short-term profits over children’s well-being and the long-term health of our city’s families.

    I see scars on adolescents whose parents were forced into a bind that Mayor de Blasio has ...