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Beth Fertig

  • New York City's Department of Education issued its first guidelines this spring for how teachers should navigate social media.
    Friend Your Students? New York City Schools Say No
    Beth Fertig
    This spring, the city's Department of Education issued its first guidelines about how teachers should navigate social media. The rules make it explicit: Teachers cannot friend or follow their students on Facebook or Twitter, but they can have professional accounts and pages for students to follow.
  • Katherine Moloney, principal of P.S. 100 in Brooklyn, says that evaluating teachers on test scores alone is not enough.
    New York Teacher Ratings Renew Evaluation Debate
    Beth Fertig
    The Obama administration is making some federal funds contingent on schools using student test scores and classroom observations to evaluate teachers. New York City recently sparked a controversy when it rated thousands of teachers with test scores alone — and then released those ratings to the public.
  • Transport Workers Union Leader Roger Toussaint
    Beth Fertig
    Beth Fertig of member station WNYC discusses the Transport Workers Union, its pugnacious leader, Roger Toussaint, and the various pension, pay and health care issues that are at the center of the New York City transit labor dispute.
  • Transit Strike Hobbles New York City
    Beth Fertig
    New York City's transit union called a strike Tuesday after failing to reach a deal with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The strike left more than 7 million people in and around the city looking for alternative ways to get around. Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports.
  • Rescue crews were working to help survivors even as the storm was coming ashore Saturday.
    Copters, Boats Rescue Survivors in Vermilion
    Beth Fertig
    Boats and helicopters are being used to search for people stranded by floodwaters in southwestern Louisiana. Sunday in low-lying areas of Vermilion Parish, less than 100 miles from the Texas border, rescue workers are hoping to remove the last of those who stayed behind. Beth Fertig of member station KRVS reports.
  • 9/11 Fire Dept. Dispatch Tapes Released
    Beth Fertig
    The New York Fire Department releases dispatch tapes from the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, along with transcripts of firefighters' oral histories recorded after the event. From member station WNYC, Beth Fertig reports.