PATERSON — The city school district is abolishing its infamous "rubber room" — the place at Board of Education headquarters where teachers and principals facing allegations of wrongdoing were assigned ...

Rubber Room, A Dark Comedy: The Breakfast Club for Teachers meets Arrested Development It's the Breakfast Club for Teachers! This absurdist comedy follows Mark Knowles, a snobbish British transplant, ...

For well over two years now, Bronx gym teacher and coach Dan Smith has been sidelined in one of the Department of Education's infamous "rubber rooms," thanks to an allegation of sexual misconduct in ...

PATERSON – A city teacher is suing the Paterson school district over his banishment to the notorious “rubber room” over what Paterson education officials said turned out to be unfounded allegations ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- It must have seemed like a good idea at the time to somebody who had way too much time on his hands. Get a teacher who is not playing nice. Then fit the teacher for a dunce cap ...

Today's update on Alan Rosenfeld, the ex-teacher who landed in a Department of Education teacher reassignment center (aka Rubber Room) nearly a decade ago for lewd behavior towards students, features ...

They call it the "Rubber Room" because teachers sent there for various administrative reasons are sometimes so bored they're bouncing off the walls. From the incompetent and the insubordinate to 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 York Times ...

What happens when a teacher in New York City is accused of misconduct or incompetence in the classroom? They are sent to the 'Rubber Room' while an investigation is launched. They spend months or even ...