EditorialFrom left: teachers Ingrid Romero, Nwakaego Nwaifejokwu, Michael Kane and Trinidad Smith, in Queens, on June 23, 2022. (Sasha Maslov/The New York Times)
EditorialSchoolteachers who work at School Number 5 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, prepare dumplings to feed solders, volunteers and fellow Ukrainians displaced by the war on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialProtesters enter the Montreal metro with face coverings in protest of Quebec’s religious neutrality law on Oct. 22, 2017. (Cole Burston/The New York Times)
EditorialChicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis, addresses Chicago schoolteachers and supporters who rallied at Union Park in Chicago, to show solidarity and voice their concerns over negotiations between Rahm Emanuel and the school board, Sept. 15, 2012. Lewis, a formidable teachers union leader in Chicago who battled Rahm Emanuel when he was mayor, and who in 2012 led the city’s public-school teachers in their first strike in a quarter-century, died on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021. She was 67. Her death was announced by the Chicago Teachers Union, which did not say where she died. She had been under treatment for glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer that forced her to retire as head of the union in June 2018 after undergoing brain surgery. (Nathan Weber/The New York Times)
EditorialNour Farhat, who represents a teachers union that is suing the Quebec government over its ban on religious symbols, at a law firm's offices in Montreal, Jan. 5, 2020. (Nasuna Stuart-Ulin/The New York Times)