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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Randi/Unity Caucus Lauded Elia/Bill Gates and Booed Those Who Walked Out at 2010 AFT Convention

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Anonymous Sunday, July 11, 2010 All of those teachers applauding and cheering for Gates will come to regret it. NYC Educator Sunday...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Ding Dong - NYS Ed Comm Elia Resigning - Via Ravitch

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New York Commissioner MaryEllen Elia is resigning at the end of August. No reason given.... Ravitch Our union's buddy is leaving. Rem...
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Sunday, July 14, 2019

Fifty Years Ago - Man on the Moon - and Me in Paris

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Fifty years ago coming up on July 20 I had just begun my first trip abroad, alone lugging my too big and overstuffed suitcase and my Europ...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

BMORE/CEDE Caucuses declared winners in Baltimore by AFT

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Two social justice caucuses united to win the Baltimore election against an 8 term incumbent. Baltimore Movement of Rank-and-File Educators...
Friday, July 12, 2019

School Scope: On Democracy and the Queens DA Race

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Here is my latest for The WAVE- July 12, 2019 -- www.rockawave.com. I wrote it on Tuesday so it may not make it into this edition. The Queen...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Analysis: UFT VP Evelyn DeJesus Becomes Randi Second in Command at AFT

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The appointment by Randi - er, "election" of UFT VP Evelyn DeJesus as Executive VP of the AFT puts Evelyn in position to succeed...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Can Principals who harass teachers to death be charged with murder? See France

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Weeks of wrenching testimony about despairing employees who hanged themselves, immolated themselves, or threw themselves out of windows, ...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Memo from the RTC: Newsies Opens July 19 and The Picasso of RTC

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Memo from the RTC:   Newsies Opens July 19 and The Picasso of RTC By Norm Scott Another spectacular Rockaway ...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

The 2019 Socialism Conference, sponsored by American leftist juggernauts the DSA, Jacobin magazine, and ISO’s Haymarket Books, features regime-change activists from multiple US government-funded NGOs - The Grayzone

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Now that the ISO has disbanded, its veterans can reach into the rapidly growing ideologically diffuse world of Democratic Socialists of A...
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Saturday, July 6, 2019

NYState Opt Out Leader Jeanette Deuterman Castigates Mulgrew and UFT - and NYSUT Leaders for "Unforgiveable Betrayal"

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Our hope was that Andy Pallotta would in fact come to realize that not supporting a student protection opt out bill would be a PR nightmar...

Jill Lepore Argues for American Patriotism - Why?

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The definition of the nation, and its relation to the state, can be pictured as a circle, with “thick” versions of identity on one side a...
Friday, July 5, 2019

Krugman - Democrats aren’t radical, but Republicans are

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In moving to the left on taxes and spending, then, Democrats are actually moving toward voters’ preferences, not away from them. Yes, Rep...
Thursday, July 4, 2019

Queens DA Race - Katz leads by 20, many ballots tossed, recount coming

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Mr. Goldfeder said he intended to challenge the decision to invalidate all but 487 of the 2,816 affidavit ballots cast. Election officia...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Let's Blame the UFT for Everything

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For the past almost 5 decades I've been one of the UFT's biggest critics and they deserve a lot of criticism for what they are and...
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Monday, July 1, 2019

School Scope: The Debates: On Busing, Capitalism, and Socialism

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Submitted to The WAVE for publication, July 5, 2019 School Scope:   The Debates: On Busing, Capitalism, and Socialism By Norm Scott ...