It looks like the death of the city Department of Education’s Absent Teacher Reserve pool, sometimes called the “rubber room,” was greatly exaggerated, Chalkbeat reports. And now teache… ...

Mulgrew said he had been having conversations with the mayor about the rubber room since he took the reins of the union nearly a year ago. “We want a faster and fairer process, and that’s what ...

It turns out plenty of bad teachers are making their way from the so-called “rubber rooms” back into New York City classrooms without ever changing their ways. Five months ago, StudentsFirstNY ...

The Philadelphia school district has changed its mind about firing a teacher who let students leave school to protest the school's conversion to a charter. The teacher is returning to work Monday ...

The Rubber Room has been woven into the plots of Law and Order and the Unbreakable ... “The ATR pool was always a waste of teacher talent and taxpayer money,” UFT president Michael Mulgrew ...

Hope Moffett is still in limbo, assigned each day to an administrative room, often called derisively "the rubber room", rather than her classroom at Audenried High School.

She remained in the rubber room until late January, when she began a four-month unpaid suspension — a $24,000 fine — for that infraction. Soon, she’ll return to her school.

His is the second “rubber room” case filed against the district since last August when the school board approved a $200,000 settlement for educator Noreen Sweeney in her lawsuit involving the ...

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 ...

Philadelphia City Councilmember Isaiah Thomas has criticized the controversial teacher discipline process. Teachers have said the rubber room makes them feel like they’re in jail.

By one administrator’s count, the Philadelphia School District spent about $225,000 paying him not to work for a ...