Adam Urbanski is the longtime president of the Rochester Teachers Association and vice president of the American Federation of Teachers. He is the director of the Teacher Union Reform Network (TURN), an organization of teachers’ unions and teachers’ union members who advance left-wing and union-friendly education reforms. He is a former social studies teacher and university professor.

Early Life

Urbanski was born in Poland in 1946 and immigrated to the U.S. in 1960. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Rochester in 1969. He then received a Ph.D. in American social history, also from the University of Rochester in 1975.

He began working in the Rochester School District in 1969 as a teacher. 0){ let parent=divs[divs.length-1].parentNode; let footer=divs[divs.length-1]; delete divs[divs.length-1]; for (let i=2; i