The New York City public school system is huge. More than a million students, all being taught by 75,000 teachers. Except, a few hundred of those teachers are being paid NOT to teach. These are ...

PATERSON – A city teacher is suing the Paterson school district over his banishment to the notorious “rubber room” over what Paterson education officials said turned out to be unfounded allegations ...

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 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (CN) - A teacher claims Rochester City School District fired her for complaining that the district took federal money earmarked for homeless students and spent it on other programs.

BROOKLYN, N.Y. -- The seven-member jury in the "rubber room" teacher civil trial began deliberations just before noon on Tuesday in Brooklyn Federal Court. After a week-long trial, the panel must ...

has taken steps in recent months to dramatically reduce the number of backlogged misconduct cases in an attempt to reform the “rubber room” process, administrators said Tuesday. Teachers and other ...

A Staten Island teacher who once live-streamed himself in a rubber room has forced the city Department of Education to publicly admit it wrongly retaliated against him. Francesco Portelos won a long ...

It’s his 20th anniversary in the rubber room. Aryeh Eller taught orchestral music at Hillcrest High School in Queens for just two full years before being suspended in November 1999 for allegedly ...

Ever wonder where teachers go when they’re bad—or even, apparently, when they’re just accused of making a mistake? In New York at least, they go to the “Rubber Room.” According to a New York Times ...