Mayor Bloomberg held a press conference yesterday to announce an agreement with the teachers union to eliminate the “Rubber Rooms” where teachers accused of misconduct or incompetence are assigned ...

Rubber Room, A Dark Comedy: The Breakfast Club for Teachers meets Arrested Development It's the Breakfast Club for Teachers! This absurdist comedy follows Mark Knowles, a snobbish British transplant, ...

Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter to keep up with news on the city’s public school system. The chair of the City Council Education Committee ...

Home is the new rubber room. Since the COVID-19 shutdown, scores of city educators removed from classrooms pending administrative trials have spent four months on the city payroll in the comfort of ...

PATERSON — The city school district is abolishing its infamous "rubber room" — the place at Board of Education headquarters where teachers and principals facing allegations of wrongdoing were assigned ...

Teachers awaiting their disciplinary hearings were paid to sit in windowless rooms and–well, do nothing really–for the hours that they would otherwise be working. The New Yorker visited one last year: ...

NEW YORK -- Hundreds of New York City teachers who are paid full salaries to do nothing while they await disciplinary hearings will be released from the city's "rubber rooms" this fall, officials ...

Before the New York City Council decided last week to vote in favor of Michael Bloomberg’s plan to extend term Before the New York City Council decided last week to vote in favor of Michael ...

No more tax dollars wasted for teachers to do nothing. That's the promise of a new deal reached by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the United Federation of Teachers. Under the deal, teachers will get ...

It's the Breakfast Club for Teachers! This absurdist comedy follows Mark Knowles, a snobbish Bristtish transplant, on suspension from his job as a Principal of a NYC public high school to a Detention ...