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Tuesday, December 5, 2006

Mayoral Control

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The UFT leadership quickly cobbled together a resolution on mayoral control at the Dec. 4, 2006 Exec. Bd. meeting after the ICE resolution ...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

'THIS IS NOT A PENITENTIARY': A VIEW FROM PUBLIC SCHOOL

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By JB McGeever An English teacher at Jamaica High School in Queens describes what it's like to share the school with police officers. Ci...
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Sunday, November 26, 2006

Query on unscheduled parent meeting

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An elementary chapter leader asks: I want to know if a teacher has the right to leave an unscheduled meeting with a parent and an administra...
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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Statistics Always Lie

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November, 2006 Well, recent reports in the NY Post are indicationg that the stats ongrad rates haev been massaged just a bit. After attendin...
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Friday, November 24, 2006

The Galleries Lafayette

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More on Jolanta Rohloff at Lafayette HS You may have read ”The Galleries Lafayette,” in my Wave columns last spring on Jolanta Rohloff, the...
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Leonie Haimson on city grad rates

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http://www.classsizematters.org/ Bravo for Comptroller Thompson! He has had a very good week. According to the NY Post , he has now written...
Thursday, November 23, 2006

No Child - The Play

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Nilaja Sun has received kudos for her one-woman performance in No Child , called “Compelling Theatre” in one review. But no matter how high ...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

More cheating - DUH!

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Does high stakes testing lead to cheating? Gee, ya think? As small schools battle each other for the cream of the crop in students, they can...
Sunday, November 19, 2006

John Elfrank-Dana On Saying “No”

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John, That has to be the most beautifully and persuasive piece I have read since the contract was announced. It speaks to the issues withou...
Saturday, November 18, 2006

What Lurks Beneath

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I received a great response to my last 2 columns where I compared the NYCDOE to totalitarian regimes. I have not had time to make a similar ...
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Friday, November 17, 2006

Ed Notes Query Response: Grieving U observations

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As more responses come in, they will be added. If you have more info add it to the comments. Original Query From a high school: This may com...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

New Action and Unity Caucus

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A recent letter New Action/UFT sent out to its supporters made it perfectly clear: they will be running a slate in the UFT elections this co...
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Saturday, November 11, 2006

The UFT and Mayoral Control - A Slam Dunk

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"No Secret Deal in Teacher Pact" proclaimed the headline in the NY Post. “On the heels of a historic new contract with the city, t...
Friday, November 10, 2006

The Contract: What Lies Beneath

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We have been besieged by questions: After all the rancor and viciousness of BloomKlein where did all this sweetness and love come from? What...
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Wednesday, November 8, 2006

A rush to judgement

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Check the timetable used by the UFT to rush this agreement through without providing people with adequate time to discuss it or even look ov...
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Friday, November 3, 2006

Bloomberg and Klein Drop the Big One While Weingarten Goes Along for the Ride

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Reprint from Education Notes, Spring 2003 When former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani declared that the Board of Education should be blown up there...
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Thursday, November 2, 2006

Comment on UFT Charter School

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From the NY Times - Nov. 2, 2006 "Mr. Spitzer, on the other hand, has the unions’ support and recently t...
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Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Wrinkles in the Iron Curtain

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So where was I? Oh yes, last time I was comparing the BloomKlein takeover of the NYC school system with the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europ...