And as school districts renovate and come across issues, they are “stuck holding the bag with a million-dollar price tag because their predecessors were sold a floor with toxic metals,” she said.

NEW YORK The coach in this case is going to federal court. "They wanted to have some type of retaliation against me, and they did," Daniel Smith said. That retaliation, Smith claims, was to assign ...

In April 2012, Portelos was removed from Dreyfus Intermediate School (I.S. 49) and reassigned to a building in Far Rockaway, Queens, where he worked in a storage room -- a "rubber room" -- in a ...

Portnoy, who is appealing his firing from Middle School 142, began each day by getting a few hours’ sleep in a beach chair while mice scurried past him on the concrete floor, he said.

The city’s infamous rubber rooms have rebounded. In one of the “reassignment centers,” 16 exiled educators sit in a city Department of Education building in Long Island City, Queens ...

The term rubber room is an allusion to now-infamous "reassignment centers" where New York City officials transferred public school teachers and administrators who some considered burned out or ...

A Santa Fe School Board member is investigating whether there’s a so-called “rubber room” in the district. Skip to content NOWCAST KOAT Action 7 News at 10pm ...