tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post2112682997551139274..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: The Disastrous UFT Policy on Charter Schoolsed notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-76737416618355941252009-11-29T08:55:49.656-05:002009-11-29T08:55:49.656-05:00Instead of continuing to concentrate on the negati...Instead of continuing to concentrate on the negative, why don't you lend a hand? It is so easy to criticize from the background rather than going in an d getting your hands dirty. <br />So, go into one of these schools and organize them, perhaps you might have the leverage to be involved the contractual process.<br /><br />Go ahead, I dare you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-89265709247492862732009-10-22T19:20:59.437-04:002009-10-22T19:20:59.437-04:00How is the decision made to close a school?
At wh...How is the decision made to close a school?<br /><br />At what point is the school deemed incapable of Educating children?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-39784570889668173032009-10-15T16:38:21.288-04:002009-10-15T16:38:21.288-04:00You should see what the AFT did in connecticut. Wo...You should see what the AFT did in connecticut. Would you vote for a contract like this.<br /><br />http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/10/mayor_contract.php<br /><br /><br />http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2009/10/teachers_approv.php<br /><br />And most teachers did.THREEFIFTHShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02878996880726631776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-70786768230199646942009-10-15T05:38:01.340-04:002009-10-15T05:38:01.340-04:00Green Dot is perhaps the perfect example of what y...Green Dot is perhaps the perfect example of what you speak of. Weingarten initially helicoptered into LA to meet with Green Dot's front man, Steve Barr - the real power behind the company is private equity firms like Bain Capital and Leeds Private Equity - who has publicly spoken of the need to bring in the unions in order to take over the urban public school systems. The LA local had been trying to fend off Green Dot, but was then undermined by Weingarten.<br /><br />Weingarten then invited Green Dot to NYC, actually having the effrontery to use NYC Teacher Foundation money, our money, to help set them up.<br /><br />The contract that the UFT recently signed with Green Dot here in NYC has no tenure or seniority provisions, an endless workday, and no succession clause, meaning that when Green Dot finds the timing propitious, it can simply walk away from the union. That time will come when the union has outlived its function of being a "useful idiot" in the hostile takeover of the public schools. <br /><br />The leadership of the UFT and AFT have shown themselves willing to bargain with the Devil in order to keep the dues coming in. Meanwhile, the walls collapse around them, and us.<br /><br />Norm, I agree with you that the existing charter schools must be unionized, but we must also struggle to change the terms of debate regarding charters as an overall policy.Michael Fiorillonoreply@blogger.com