Ed Notes Online: Christine Quinn's campaign events are "EMBARGOED UNTIL DATE AND TIME OF EVENT"

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Christine Quinn's campaign events are "EMBARGOED UNTIL DATE AND TIME OF EVENT"

Why Is Christine Quinn Hiding Public Appearances from the Public? Every morning I receive an email from Azi Paybarah with the best coverage of NYC politics at Capital New York.

And he always lists the campaign appearances of all the candidates.
Except Christine Quinn where this appears.

Christine Quinn's campaign events are "EMBARGOED UNTIL DATE AND TIME OF EVENT"

Which means the press knows but are not allowed to tell anyone till the event actually takes place.

Below that we actually get to see where all the other candidates will be today - and every day. Except for Quinn.

9 a.m. Democratic mayoral candidate Sal Albanese helps distribute Rosh Hashanah food at Bensonhurst COJO, 8632 21st Avenue, Brooklyn. @SalAlbanese2013
10:15 a.m. Democratic mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio discusses the City Council's votes to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vetoes of the Community Safety Act, on the steps of City Hall. @BilldeBlasio #CSA #StopAndFrisk #ChangeTheNYPD
10:30 a.m. Elsie McCabe, wife of Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson, joins Rep. Charlie Rangel and Alicia Keys to attend a town hall meeting on AIDS, at Harlem Hospital, 506 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan. @cbRangel @AliciaKeys #AIDSTownHall
11 a.m. Governor Andrew Cuomo and others attends President Obama's remarks in Buffalo at Alumni Arena, BU North Campus at the University at Buffalo. @nygovCuomo @BarackObama #UpstateAmerica
11 a.m. Albanese hosts representatives from the Campaign for Children to discuss early childhood education, at Albanese campaign headquarters, 85 Livingston Street, Brooklyn. @SalAlbanese2013 #EarlyStart
11 a.m. Democratic mayoral candidate John Liu takes a small business tour in Kingsbridge, along West 231st Street, from Broadway to Corlear Ave., in the Bronx. @JohnLiu2013
11 a.m. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, State Senator. Liz Krueger and Councilwoman Jessica Lappin call on the Army Corps of Engineers to revoke permits for the East 91st Street Marine Transfer Station, Asphalt Green, 555 E. 90th St., Manhattan. [h/t CIty & State] @RepMaloney @LizKrueger @JessLappin #DumpTheDump
11:30 a.m. Liu takes a small business tour in Riverdale along Riverdale Avenue, from West 236th Street to West 238th Street, in the Bronx. @JohnLiu2013
11:45 a.m. Democratic mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner greets seniors at the United Jewish Council Adult Lunch Club, in the Orenstein Building, 15-17 Willett Street (between Grand St. and Delancey St.) in Manhattan. @AnthonyWeiner
Noon. Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson gets endorsed by Assemblyman Dov Hikind, and discusses a plan to improve education across the city, at Amnon's Kosher Pizza, 4814 13th Avenue, Brooklyn. @BillThompsonNYC @HikindDov #NYC2013
Noon. De Blasio and former councilwoman Una Clarke visits St. Gabriel Senior Citizen Center, at 331 Hawthorne Street, Brooklyn. @DeBlasioNYC
12:30 p.m. Weiner discusses tax reform at the Red Apple Child Development, 25 Market Street (between Henry St. and Madison St.) in Manhattan. @AnthonyWeiner #KeysToTheCity #TaxReform
1 p.m. Thompson gets endorsed by Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and discusses plans to fix schools, at 20 Fort Greene, Brooklyn. @BillThompsonNYC @TeamJeffries #NYC2013
1:30 p.m. New York City Council meets to vote on whether or not to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's vetoes of the Community Safety Act, in the City Council Chambers, in City Hall. [Watch Live: Legistar] #CSA #StopandFrisk #ChangeTheNYD
2:15 p.m. De Blasio visits Friends of Crown Heights Pre-Kindergarten at 671 Prospect Place, Brooklyn. @DeBlasioNYC
3 p.m. De Blasio greets voters at Nostrand Avenue subway stop (2, 5) on the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn. @DeBlasioNYC
5 p.m. Mayoral candidates participate in the Russian Community Mayoral Forum, at The National Restaurant, 273 Brighton Beach Avenue (between 2nd St. and Brighton 3rd St.) in Brooklyn. [DavidzonRadio.com] @SalAlbanese2013 @JohnLiu2013 @AnthonyWeiner #RussianForum
6 p.m. De Blasio participate in the Russian Community Mayoral Forum, at The National Restaurant, 273 Brighton Beach Avenue (between 2nd St. and Brighton 3rd St.) in Brooklyn. [DavidzonRadio.com] @DeBlasioNYC #RussianForum
6:30 p.m. Elise McCabe and Rep. Greg Brooks attends Councilman Donovan Richards Family Day event, at O'Donohue Park, "approximate address" Beach 17 St., Seagirt Boulevard, Far Rockaway. @GregoryMeeks
6 p.m. Queens Democrats host a summertime BBQ, at the Royalton at Lawrence Yacht and Country Club ,101 Causeway Road, Queens.
7 p.m. Albanese addresses supporters in Rockaway at a fund-raiser hosted by former FDNY Chief of Department Peter Hayden, Bungalow Bar, 377 Beach 92nd Street, Queens. @SalAlbanese2013
7 p.m. Liu greets voters at Tracey Towers, 40 West Mosholu Parkway South, in the Bronx. @JohnLiu2013
8 p.m. Liu and others attend the Manhattan Young Democrats annual "Young Gets It Done" party at 199 Bowery, in Lower Manhattan. @GoMYD @JohnLiu2013 #YGID2013
8:45 p.m. De Blasio speaks at the Manhattan Young Democrats annual "Young Gets It Done" party at 199 Bowery, in Lower Manhattan. @GoMYD @DeBlasioNYC #YGID2013

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"A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

What media call "philanthropy" for the public schools are actually seed monies to establish a private "market" in publicly-financed education - an enterprise worth trillions if successfully penetrated by corporate America. Cory Booker, one of the "New Black Leaders" financed by the filthy rich, is key to creating a "nationwide corporate-managed schools network paid for by public funds but run by private managers.

"Ed Reformers" want to cash in on public education and to control its content and outcome, not improve it. Provide great education? Baby boomers had as close as this country has ever gotten to it when we were growing up. The Ed Reform Movement has no interest in seeing such a well-educated, democratically astute population ever again.

http://blackagendareport.com/content/cory-booker-clear-and-present-threat-public-education

History of the UFT Pre-Weingarten Years

This award-winning series of articles by Jack Schierenbeck originally appeared in the New York Teacher in 1996 and 1997.

Naturally, from a certain point of view. But, despite certain biases, Schierenbeck, a great guy, was one of the best NY Teacher reporters so this is worth reading. Jack suffered a debilitating stroke many years ago (I used to get secret donations to ed notes from him through a 3rd source.)

This chapter looks interesting:

Class struggles: The UFT story, part 3

“The schism in the union over radical politics [is] a major reason for stalling the growth of a teacher union for decades.” Revolutionary politics and ideology take center stage, as the original Teachers Union becomes a battlefield, pitting leftist against leftist and splitting the union.

Clarence Taylor's "Reds at the Blackboard" focused on the old Teachers Union which disbanded in 1964 after suffering from anti-left attacks.

Of course for another view, check out the review at New Politics of the Kahlenberg Bio on Shanker by Vera Pavone and me: Albert Shanker: Ruthless Neocon

Effective Union Organizing

A video series put together by Jason Mann from the British Columbia Federation of Teachers about social media and how to use it for effective union organizing.

The first series was called New Media For Union Activists Roadmap and it's still available on-line at:
http://www.newmediabootcamp.ca/welcome/
I watched some of them and need to rewatch as they are loaded with information.

The second series started last week and it's called "Online Campaigning for Union Activists"

You can sign up for this free series at :
http://act.bcfed.ca/online-campaigning-for-union-activists/

You Don't Have A Choice - Join the Revolt

Ex-Harlem Success Teacher Comments on Eva the Diva

Ex-HSA Teacher has left a new comment on your post "Fear and Loathing at Evil's Harlem Success Empire ...":

I am a former Harlem Success teacher. Not many people who work/worked for her like her very much. I once made the comment that she is very nice when I first was hired. Two of her closest colleague responded immediately almost in unison, "Eve is not nice!" Over time I realized that there was a lot of political games going on. Another colleague once said to me that he was tired of "being part of a political campaign." Sending out 15,000 applications for only 400 seats in a school is reprehensible. The money that paid for those mass mailings could have paid the yearly salary of another teacher not to mention the heartache of all those parents who applied but did not get a spot. She does good work trying to give disadvantaged students a quality public school education but at a great cost to staff AND the school's educational budget! school budget.

Davis Guggenheim Compared to Riefenstahl

“Waiting for Superman" is the second most intellectually dishonest piece of documentary work I have seen. It is surpassed only by Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will," the pro-Hitler propaganda classic, in that regard. Uses personal narratives of adorable children to create narrative suspense that overrides public policy discussion with pure emotion in unscrupulous attack on teachers and their unions, among others

Timothy Tyson
Professor of African American Studies and History
Duke University

How Teaching Experience Makes a Difference

Even as New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Michelle Rhee and others around the nation are arguing for experienced teachers to be laid off regardless of seniority, every single study shows teaching experience matters. In fact, the only two observable factors that have been found consistently to lead to higher student achievement are class size and teacher experience, so that it’s ironic that these same individuals are trying to undermine both.
- Leonie Haimson on Parents Across America web site

Full article with charts here.

Weingarten/Gates Foundation announce drone-driven teacher evaluation

According to a press release issued by the Gates Foundation, the AFT and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, these three have entered a ground-breaking partnership to evaluate teachers utilizing the drone technology that has revolutionized warfare in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. A bird-size device floats up to 400 feet above a classroom and instantly beams live video of teachers in action to agents at desks at Teacher Quality Inspection Stations established by the AFT and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

When asked if the drones were authorized to drop bombs on teachers who exhibit inadequacy, Chester E. Finn, Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, replied, "Don't be ridiculous. Gates money puts other methods at our disposal."

Randi Weingarten, president of the 1.5-million-member American Federation of Teachers said the powerful union has signed on to the drone project...

More at Substance

The Real Reason Behind Push for Standardized Tests: It's All About the Adults

On standardized testing in our schools

A must read article about the standardized test industry.
Written by an insider who has worked as a test scorer, the article outlines a multinational industry based on an army of temporary workers paid by the piece at $0.30 to $0.70 per test, translated in the need to grade 40 tests per hour to make a $12 salary. The article goes on to show how the companies gauge the grading "results" based on the need to ensure new contracts to continue profiting off of our youth. The original article is from Monthly Review. Here it is on Schools Matter blog.

http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/12/on-growing-use-of-corporate-test.html

Parallels between America today and Germany in the 1920's and early 30's

"Resentment and obstruction are all the right wing in America have to peddle. Their policies are utterly discredited. Their ideology - even by its own standards - is a sham. They are so bereft of leaders, their de facto leader is a former drug addicted, thrice-divorced radio talk show host. That is literally the best they can muster. But they have built a national franchise inciting the downwardly mobile to blame the government, not the right, for their problems, exactly as Hitler did in the 1920s."

The US Is Facing a Weimar Moment

Published on Sunday, March 15, 2009 by CommonDreams.org

Chicago View of Unity/UFT on Charters

After many meetings and debates, the Chicago delegation succeeded in working with the New York United Federation of Teachers, Local 2 (UFT) to push the AFT to take stronger stands on charter school accountability and school closings — though many delegates from Chicago would have liked the language to have been even stronger.

Generally speaking, the New York delegation represented organizing charters as the best model for handling their role in reshaping unions, despite the fact that according to many reports few charter schools in New York have been organized as is the case in Chicago. This logic is the same touted by the Progressive Caucus of the AFT. The few that have been organized are a part of the UFT local though they have separate contracts negotiated with the help of UFT. The Chicago delegation reflection the mindset that allowing new charters to continue to proliferate while attempting to organize existing charters is an end game in which public schools and the union lose.

Jen Johnson, CTU, Local 1 in Substance

Ed Notes Greatest Hits: HSA Rally and Founding of GEM

SEE MY VIDEO ON HARLEM SUCCESS RALLY 2009:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEp7rg_L5JI

Angel Gonzalez and I attended that rally and used the footage to promote our conference on Mar. 28, 2009, which is where the concept of a group like GEM emerged. Until then we had basically been a committee of ICE working with the NYCORE high stakes testing group. The actions of Eva and crew helped spawn GEM. Mommie Dearest!!

I have more video somewhere. I was hoping to get Leni Riefenstahl to edit it but she died. We would have called it "Triumph of the Hedge Fund Operators."

Ed Notes Extended

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Christine Quinn's campaign events are "EMBARGOED UNTIL DATE AND TIME OF EVENT"

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