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Monday, May 9, 2016

Unity Caucus Candidates A-D: The 750 AFT Convention Goers Who Vote as ONE

Continuing our series of publishing the list that appears on your UFT election ballot of all loyalty-oath signing Unity Caucus candidates running for AFT/NYSUT delegate. Last night we published the 222 chapter leader list - A List of 222 School Level Chapter Leaders Running for Unity: Loyalty Oathers Who Will Sell You Out When Told To which appeared to offend some Unity Caucus people who left comments defending themselves, which have sparked some responses.

I am doing the rest of the 750, many of them district reps, retirees, officers and UFT staffers plus others I do not know. If you know them and what they do leave a comment and I'll fill in the info. I'm doing this in alphabetical order because there are so many.

By the way - did you know that Randi is running as one of OUR delegates?

Do the math just for the upcoming AFT convention: Airfare to Minneapolis, at least 4 or more nights in a top level hotel, meal money. Figure at least $2000 a head times - make it 800 because they shlep special guests along too. I get almost $2 million of your dues going to cover this junket. No wonder they will sell your whatever bridge the leadership is putting on the market.

Again, thanks to Jonathan Halabi for gathering the info.

Melvyn	Aaronson	Off
Alan	Abrams	DR 22
Shelvy	Abrams
Kenneth	Achiron	Ret
Yona	Adika
Andrea	Agre
Don	Albright
Karen	Aldorando
Emma	Alexander
Karen	Alford	VP EL
Roseanne	Alkhatib
Renee	Allen Walker
Lorina	Allert
Sherease	Alston
Bradley	Alter
George	Altomare	Ret
Carmen	Alvarez	Off
John	Amato
Seva	Amos
Sharon	Anderson
Marie	Andino
Donna	Anglin
Sophy	Aponte
Lisa	Arian
Portia	Armstrong
Angela	Artis
Amy	Arundell	FT
Robert	Astrowsky	Ret
Patricia	Atia	DR
Mary	Atkinson	FT
Ina	Babb-Henry
Joshua	Baez
Sherlyn	Bailey
Dolores	Balboa
Tracey	Ball Douglas
Adreianne	Barksdale
Anthony	Barnes
Leroy	Barr	Off
Claudette	Bart
Nancy	Barth-Miller
Normel	Batson
Reynold	Batson
Timothy	Becker
Alexander	Bell
Mashantuck	Bell
Bertha	Bell-Lee
Jacqueline	Bennett	FT
Thomas	Bennett
Robert	Berger
Phyllis	Berk
Jeffrey	Bernstein	FT
Doreen	Berrios-Castillo
Doreen	Bevilacqua
Howard	Bloch	Ret
Linda	Bloch
Peter	Bloch
Patricia	Bonadonna
Sally-Ann	Bongiovanni
Klaus	Bornemann
Margaret	Borrelli	FT
Kendra	Bowman-Burns
Jennifer	Brancaccio
Jocelyn	Brathwaite
Erika	Brown
Helena	Brown
Joan	Brown
Shajada	Brown
Thomas	Brown	Off
Glenda	Bryant-Bonas
Vasiliki	Buccellatto
Adeliz	Burgos
Zina	Burton-Myrick	FT
Robert	Burwick
Robert	Cain
Isabella	Calisi-Wagner
Sandra	Callahan
Jose	Camacho
Emelina	Camacho Mendez	FT
Paulette	Camarinos
Carl	Cambria
Brian	Campbell
David	Campbell
Brenda	Caquias
Cassie	Carlo
Chandice	Carroll
Andrea	Carte
Frank	Carucci	Ret
Leo	Casey	x- wtf?
Casserene	Cassells
Priscilla	Castro
Angelo	Caterina
Floresta	Chapman
Donna	Chartash
Monica	Christie
Dwayne	Clark	FT
Bernadette	Clemons
Michelle	Cohen-Weill
Joseph	Colletti
Mark	Collins
Dominique	Colon
Reginald	Colvin
Catherine	Connolly
Aracelia	Cook
Alice	Cooper	DR 27
Donna	Coppola
Cecilia	Cortez
Rosemarie	Cortijo
Doreen	Crinigan
Patricia	Crispino	FT
Theresa Ann	Crivelli
Yadira	Cruz
Melissa	Cuadrado
Santina	D'Angelo
Tabio	Da Cruz
Clare	Daley
Rodrick	Daley
Margaret	Dalton-Diakite
Michelle	Daniels
Rita	Danis
Elizabeth	Darby
Allison	Davis
Marina	Davis
Maria	De Candia
Anthony	Debetta
Regine	Dejean
Evelyn	Dejesus
Arlevia	Deloach
Cathy	Deluca
Adhim	Deveaux
Robin	Di Palma
Ellen	Diamond Jones
Lorraine	Donlon
Kerry	Dowling
Ellen	Driesen
James	Duncan
Sandra	Dunn-Yules
Pamela	Durante
Tammie	Durosinmi
Bridget	Dyzenhaus

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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

Monday, May 9, 2016

Unity Caucus Candidates A-D: The 750 AFT Convention Goers Who Vote as ONE

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