[JURIST] A New York State Supreme Court [official website] judge on Monday ruled [opinion, PDF] that the New York City Department of Education [official website] may release performance data on 12,000 city teachers. The order permits the Department of Education to comply with requests for Teacher Data Reports (TDRs) containing teacher names recently made by several media outlets under New York’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) [text]. Justice Cynthia Kern denied the United Federation of Teachers’ (UFT) [advocacy website] petition…