Consider this a teaser for Fight Back Friday this week. Here’s advance notice of a pro-education rally starting at 5 p.m. May 11 at 333 East Washington St. in Syracuse. You can go to the Facebook event page to learn more and share with friends and colleagues. The rally will call for more state funding [...]

…but hopefully not denied. Although this rally was expected to draw participants from all over the East Coast, and beyond, Hurricane Irene is steaming up the coast. As AFT President Randi Weingarten just tweeted “Proud of civil rights, labor activists who didn’t want to postpone MLK jobs march, but safety over hurricane won out this [...]

Good news for those in the mid-Hudson Valley who want to come to the April 9th rally in Times Square to support workers’ rights. The Onteora Teachers Association is offering a way to get there. The bus will leave the NYSUT regional office in Kingston at 8:30 a.m. It will stop at the New Paltz [...]

Working families across the country are organizing numerous actions for next week. All lead up to the top event, the We Are One Rally that starts at noon in Times Square. It’s anticipated NYSUT’s delegates will march to that rally direct from their business meeting, the 39th annual convention. If you are not already in [...]

This just in from the Times-Union. Hmm. It hasn’t even started yet!

“Dorothy” and “Scarecrow” are real-life sisters, and they came from Michigan and Wisconsin to support New Yorkers in trouble. They stood front and center at the NYSUT rally on Tuesday to support public education, held at the state capital.

You could say the numbers tell the story. There’s the staggering number of teachers and SRPs at risk of losing their jobs as state lawmakers weigh $1.5 billion in cuts to education. And then there’s the close to 1,000 teachers, parents and kids who showed up Hackett Middle School in Albany on Wednesday for a rousing rally to protest the cuts to their schools.

5:46 p.m. I don’t know who’s talking right now but huge cheers when he says how proud he is to be here with a roomful of people who care about education. I can’t wait to read Liza’s report. He just got a standing ovation. 5:55 p.m. Billy Easton of AQE just got up. If you [...]