It’s about transparency.

It’s about accountability.

And it’s about the future of New York City and the 1.1 million children enrolled in its public schools.

The United Federation of Teachers doesn’t give a hoot about any of that — and so, when The Post two years ago sought evaluation ratings for some 18,000 of its members, the union went to war.

Forcing The Post to go to court.

Where, joined by several other news organizations, it won.

Thus did the Department of Education yesterday cough up the evaluations — and now, for the first time, a fair number of public-school parents will know which of their children’s teachers are effective and which aren’t.

We ask: By what possible stretch of the imagination are they not entitled to such information?

Certainly New York’s Freedom of Information Law makes it clear that they are; the state’s top court removed all doubt last month when it dismissed a desperation appeal by the UFT to block the data dump.

But is it really necessary to identify teachers by name? Doesn’t that risk “shaming” them? So the anti-release argument goes.

Please. Whatever shame there is resides in the notion that teachers should be exempt from accountability — that transparency can be achieved through anonymity.

Doctors are rated publicly. So are individual schools — and, thus, their principals. Even restaurants have to wear a big fat letter grade on their front doors.

Too bad doctors and restaurateurs aren’t allowed in the UFT.

The union has fought every effort at genuine education reform — mayoral control, charter schools, closing failed schools, releasing evaluation ratings — because each of those initiatives boiled down to increased transparency and accountability.

But parents have been kept in the dark for long enough.

As US Education Secretary Arne Duncan has said, “parents and community members have a right to know how their districts, schools, principals and teachers are doing. Silence is not an option.”

And if some teachers are put on the spot in comparison with other, more effective, teachers — well, too damned bad.

Teachers are public employees, paid with tax dollars — and information about them is a matter of public record.

The courts have made that clear.

Transparency and accountability scored a big victory yesterday.

So did the kids.