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Rift widens between City Hall and teachers union as UFT threatens literacy curriculum pushback

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Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. When New York City officials launched a big shakeup in reading instruction three years ago, they had a key ally at their side: the city’s teachers union. Now, shortly after a plunge in reading scores , United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew is threatening to drop the union’s support of the curriculum overhaul. That could complicate Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s plans to expand the initiative, known as NYC Reads . “The Department of Ed. is completely incompetent and irresponsible in its implementation, and we are not going to stand by,” the union chief said in an interview, pointing to a series of tasks piling up for teachers as they adopt the curriculum changes. Without reforms, “we’re going to just have to pull our support for it.” Mulgrew’s criticism of the reading curriculum is the latest point of tension between the union and City Hall. Mamdani