BTU leaders and members are vocal advocates in the media for issues we believe in. Read the stories, statements and releases below to see what our community is up to.
For years, teachers unions fought for better pay and benefits. Now districts, including Boston, are planning layoffs.
Please see the Boston Teachers Union's full statement in response to a Boston Globe reporter's [...]
City Officials Encourage Boston Students To Read With Free Book Fair
With Boston students back in school, city officials made sure they had plenty of books [...]
Freedom Library hands out 4,500 books in Massachusetts to combat book bans
Having handed out thousands books in the South, the NAACP and American Federation of Teachers [...]
NAACP leaders tour Boston’s majority-Black neighborhoods, talk civic engagement
More than 50 Black leaders from NAACP chapters across the country took a tour of Mattapan, Dorchester, [...]
BPS schools used for summer learning now have air conditioning, officials say
As summer heats up in Boston, school district officials say classrooms will be kept cool [...]
New England leaders, universities react to Supreme Court admissions ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on affirmative action represents a sea change in college admissions and [...]
Harvard, other Mass. universities express anguish over SCOTUS affirmative action ruling
Poised with a video rebuke, Harvard University had braced itself for the U.S. Supreme Court ruling [...]