MORE Weekly Update #73: Protest Colocations at the PEP on October 30th!

Protest Colocations at the PEP on October 30th! 

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Weekly Update #73

October 30, 2013


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Please help out with this action. Click here for quarter sheet flyers to distribute to your colleagues.

The campaign for a moratorium on test-based evaluations continues!   Please make sure you have collected signatures on our petition from your colleagues.

Print a copy here.   Sign and share the electronic version of the petition, as well. Petitions can be returned before November 13th (scan and email to to more@morecaucusnyc.org or send hard copies via mail to 305 E. 140th #5A, Bronx, NY, 10454).

Support the Parent Test Boycott! 80% of families at Castlebridge elementary opted out of K-2 exams imposed by the new eval system. Sign a petition in support of them.  Read more from the Daily News, Real News Network, and Diane Ravitch.

Education News Roundup Obama's P-Tech Visits Highlights NYC School Closure Fight "...But inside the building that houses P-Tech is what's left of Paul Robeson High School -- as many as 50 students, three teachers, and a couple of administrators who also work in the classroom. Robeson is being phased out." King's Scarlet Letter (by Opine I Will) "Over the last several weeks the call for [NYS Education Commissioner] King’s resignation has increased exponentially...King must go." NY Principal: These "Reforms" Destroy Love of Learning (Diane Ravitch Blog) Tim Farley ("tired dad, educator, administrator") writes an open letter reflecting on the ways in which the "reform" movement is damaging K-12 education. Cuomo Loves His Teacher Evaluation System Even If He Can't Vouch For Its Accuracy (Perdido Street School) Unfortunately, Commissioner King isn't the only one touting flawed education "reform" policies... MORE's Paul Hogan in The Riverdale Press: Common Sense, Not Common Core (EdNotes) "Common Core is an added distraction and superfluous obstacle for those professionals in the trenches who are serious about bettering the lives of the young people in their charge." Teachers Suffer, UFT Leadership Spins (NYC Educator) "I pity the chapter leader who has to tell members facing high-stakes evaluation, 'Take a deep breath, the guys and gals at UFT did a swell job.'" Process Matters in a Democracy: Common Core Fails the Test (Education Week) "Democratic process is important not just so that people feel better about what happens. It yields much better decisions" (Anthony Cody)

Outraged that teachers are evaluated on tests for subjects they don't even teach?   City-wide Chapter Organizing Happy Hour!

The MORE Chapter Organizing Committee invites everyone to our city-wide Happy Hour. Share reports about how the new teacher evaluation system is being implemented and plan resistance to this unfair and fraudulent method of evaluating teachers. Friday, November 1st, 5pm The Ginger Man Bar: 11 E. 36th St (btw 5th & Madison) Any train to Herald Sq. or 6 to 33rd St. RSVP on Facebook!

Read more about the event and download a flyer by clicking above.  Join an ongoing support group of educators dealing with supervisory harassment by emailing DTOE+subscribe@googlegroups.com

Our Schools are Not for Sale! - Watch an 8 minute mini-documentary about the fight to defend public education in Philadelphia against massive budget cuts.

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Make Sure You Are On Our Listservs! Click below to join:  News (announcements/articles) Discussion (debate/back-and-forth) Chapter Leader (discussion for chapter activists) NEXT GENERAL MEETING Sat., Nov. 16th, 12-3pm 224 West 29th St 14th fl. (btwn 7th and 8th ave) COMMITTEES: Chapter Organizing Committee chapters@morecaucusnyc.org Happy Hour Fri., Nov. 1st, 5pm The Ginger Man Bar 11 E. 36th St (btw 5th & Madison). High Stake Testing Committee testing@morecaucusnyc.org Sat., Nov 2nd, 2pm Location TBA Steering Committee steering@morecaucusnyc.org Phone Meeting Mon. Nov. 4th, 8PM Reply for details Meeting minutes here Newsletter Committee news@morecaucusnyc.org Tue., Nov. 5th, 5PM Karavas Place 162 W 4th St @ 6th Ave Membership Committee membership@morecaucusnyc.org Sat., Nov. 26th, 11AM - 1PM Park Slope Email for exact location Media Committee media@morecaucusnyc.org Contract Committee contract@morecaucusnyc.org Next Meeting Wed., after DA 11/20 Location TBA STAYING IN TOUCH:  Comments? Suggestions? Email update@morecacusnyc.org with items for future updates

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