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Tuesday, March 4, 2008

PS 106 Q in Rockaway

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...it's all here in chronological order.

Norm's Hedge Fund Quote on WNYC

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Mayoral Control of Schools Debated The City Council tried to jump start a discussion about mayoral control of city schools by holding a leng...
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Monday, March 3, 2008

My Birthday Present...City Council Hearings on Mayoral Control

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Gee, how did they know that is what I wanted for my B-Day? (Well, I did get my Beef Wellington at "One if By Land..." last night.)...
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Rubber Room on the Radio

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Posted to nyceducationnews listserve: The public radio show, This American Life (350: Human Resources), recently included a pie...

Will GHI/HIP Merger and Privatization Raise Costs?

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Monday, March 3, 2008 Recently, we have been made aware of the dangers of the GHI/HIP merger, which is supported by the UFT and mo st other...
Sunday, March 2, 2008

A Teacher's Dilemma...

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... how the DOE/UFT eats its young Unionizing or Truly Uniting? A great post at Syntactic Gymnastics. It was great to see that she got a lot...

Helen Marshall, Where Are You....

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.... when it comes to appointing a Queens rep to the Panel for Educational Policy? –Queens unrepresented for 3 months –February PEP meeting ...
Saturday, March 1, 2008

Tweed Announces Closing of UFT...

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...will be replaced by six smaller unions EDNN News UPDATED The NYCDOE announced at the Tweed Courthouse that the UFT will be phased out ove...
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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Rubber Room Movie Team on Chicago Public Radio

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UPDATE: Listen to 880 AM in NYC on Saturday March 1 at 11am for the program. Greetings all, We are pleased to announce that Chicago Public...
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ARIS Smashed

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UPDATE: See Comment #4 for letter from David Yasky and Robert Jackson calling for ARIS contract to be cancelled. Remember the famous spoof o...
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A Short Guide to the WTO, the Millennial Round, and the Rumble in Seattle

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With NAFTA becoming a major part of the political campaign between Clinton and Obama, I remembered Ed Notes re-printing an article about fre...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Quality Teachers vs. Small Class Size

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All you need to control this crowd is a quality teacher. The so-called Education reformers always pose demands for lower class sizes in term...
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Are Merrow Reports on PBS Fair and Balanced?

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Reports on Paul Vallas - the uber Klein - check the state of the Chicago and Philly and now New Orleans schools as he goes on his path of ...
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

UFT Undermining Rubber Room Suit, Teachers Charge

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UPDATE: Thurs. Feb. 28 from Boubakar Fofana: You make grave statements without naming your source. Who told you that " NYSUT lawyers ...
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Does "Education Week" Violate Journalistic Standards?

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Education Week, a national weekly read by the Ed cognoscenti, has been accused by Deborah Meier, David Marshak, Philip Kovacs, Susan Ohanian...
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Monday, February 25, 2008

Cops attack striking teachers in Puerto Rico

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NOTE: Keep an eye on the way the UFT/AFT addresses this issue. This is the kind of militancy that scares them - remember, unions of professi...
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LA Teachers Vote- 79% Don't Vote

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It's a Duffy Landslide! from Intercepts by Mike Antonucci The United Teachers Los Angeles vote is in . The union sent out 42,952 ballot...
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