Boston Teachers Union

Boston schools are working with the city to conduct job fairs and direct recruiting to fill hard to staff areas.

As students in Boston settle in to the new school year, the city’s school district is still working to hire teachers to fill stubborn vacancies, an issue plaguing education officials nationwide. There were over 220 teacher vacancies districtwide as of the last week in August of this year, according to data provided by Boston Public Schools. That’s a marked...

EDITOR’S NOTE: A video that was previously attached to this story incorrectly stated that Boston Public Schools was labeled as an underperforming district. In actuality, it narrowly missed that designation. Boston Public Schools and the Boston Teachers Union reached a tentative agreement Thursday, ahead of a national teacher’s union conference being held in Boston. The contract includes money for...

The Boston Teachers Union is holding an emergency meeting Monday about the potential for the state to take over the school district. It’s a process known as receivership, and in a letter, the union calls it an “undemocratic, racist takeover scheme.” “As many of you are aware, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has been threatening for years...

The Boston Teachers Union is holding an emergency meeting Monday about the potential for the state to take over the school district.

The hearing was happening Friday morning.

A Boston City Council hearing on Mayor Michelle Wu’s employee vaccine mandate is happening Friday morning. It’s been a heated topic inside and outside of City Hall. The City Council is talking about the mayor’s mandate, which requires all 19,000 city employees to be vaccinated. There has been an ongoing back and forth between the mayor’s office and the...

The agreement would allow unvaccinated teachers to continue working during periods of low virus transmission, if they submit two negative COVID tests.

The city of Boston will allow unvaccinated teachers to continue working if they submit proof of two negative COVID-19 screening tests per week during periods of lower virus transmission

Boston’s superintendent substituted as a fourth-grade teacher in Roxbury Wednesday due to the large number of COVID-related absences among teachers and staff.

After 1,200 absences for teachers and staff on Tuesday, Boston Public Schools is bracing for more on Wednesday.

After roughly 1,200 teachers and staff members called out on Tuesday and nearly as many sick on Wednesday, Boston Public Schools continued to adapt to rising COVID-19 cases. “There are staffing shortages in the schools and that’s a significant challenge to maintain safety for the students,” said Jessica Tang, president of the Boston Teachers Union. To help alleviate the shortage,…

Thousands of kids are getting ready to return to Boston classrooms Monday morning, but the Boston Teachers Union says its concerned that students are returning to school even though teachers haven’t been vaccinated yet.

The timeline for in-person learning in Boston has been updated.

Families in Boston are making preparations for the reopening of public schools.

Thousands of students in the Boston Public School district returned to classrooms, Thursday, as the city ramps up the number of children receiving in-person learning. The wave of high-needs students who returned to school buildings Thursday is part of the city’s phased plan to return to in-person learning. The phase was initially slated to begin Monday, but the launch...

Hours before more than two dozen additional schools were set to resume in-person learning for high-needs students, the Boston Teachers Union on Monday passed a vote of no confidence in superintendent Brenda Cassellius.

The city of Boston reached an agreement with the teacher’s union to reopen four schools for students with the highest needs by implementing various coronavirus safety protocols.

Hundreds of students with the highest needs can return to their classrooms as four Boston schools reopen Monday. Boston Public Schools and the Boston Teachers Union reached an agreement on ways to keep students and teachers safe with in-person learning Sunday night. The four schools reopening Monday are the Carter School, Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of…

Late Sunday, Boston Public Schools, Mayor Marty Walsh’s office, and the Boston Teachers Union said they all came to an agreement on additional provisions to keep teachers and students safe including more personal protective equipment, better ventilation and filtration, and additional COVID testing.