Thursday, June 19, 2008

Rumor Mill: Michelle Bodden Goes to UFT Elementary Charter School

There are rumors - even that Michelle will be the new principal - can a UFT VP also be a principal?

Many people at UFT HQ and in Unity Caucus looked at Michelle as the obvious choice to replace Randi Weingarten as UFT president. But we have been pointing out in in our articles on the Randi Succession Obsession that her star was descending. Beside, astute UFT watchers know full well Randi may try to break Al Shanker's 10 year record of holding both AFT and UFT presidencies. (I already have a bet that she is running in 2010 for UFT Pres.)

The speculation is who will be the strong man to ride herd - play the role Tom Pappas played for Feldman and Weingarten - and the guessing is it will be that fellow with the lean and hungy look, Mike Mulgrew.

1 comment:

NYC Educator said...

I'm amazed, really, that people blithely accept the presidency of the largest teacher local in the country is a part-time job. Sure, there's years of precedent. But it's a bad precedent. And while there were other bad contracts, I don't remember anyone selling us down the river quite like Ms. Weingarten did in 2005.