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Thursday, May 10, 2007

Sol Stern and Social Justice

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"Admit it! You and Joel Klein are on the same side." Thus spat Sol Stern at me when we ran into each other at the radical math con...

The top 10 reasons to hold a rally to oppose the DOE reorganization

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The latest ICE leaflet handed out at the Delegate Assembly on May 9th in support of the Manhattan high school chapter leaders resolution cal...
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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Pippin in her first starring role

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A few years ago, Mark Rosenhaft, my video partner in crime [NorMark Productions] and I decided to create a short video in an afternoon usin...
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Monday, May 7, 2007

Chapter leaders call on UFT to hold rally to fight reorgnization

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Actions will take place at Delegate Assembly on Wed. May 9th. There will be an informal picket line before the UFT delegate assembly this We...

The national backlash on Bloomberg’s candidacy for presidency has begun

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.....from the conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard. Read the article and a few points Leonie Haimson added at Norm's Notes.
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Sunday, May 6, 2007

Klein explains the funding formula to principals

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Someone explain exactly how the deal Weingarten made on school funding helps teachers in any way. Hey! She's a "responsible" u...
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Teacher Certification

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There's a good debate going on at NYC Educator's blog about teacher certification. The issue of alternative certification programs ...
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Friday, May 4, 2007

Who Are the Real Criminals?

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I vote for people like Giuliani, Mort Zuckerman, Christie Todd Whitman and their allies who tried to suppress Daily News reporter Juan Gonza...

Bloomberg vision: a childless New York

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Mayor Blomberg, the education mayor, has found a solution to a ll educational problems that have bedeviled urban areas for decades: a city ...
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Thursday, May 3, 2007

A 6th Year Teacher.....

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....I was speaking to at the radical math conference this past weekend has the following problem: He doesn't want to leave his school ...
Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Tim Johnson on Mayoral Control and More

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Tim Johnson is the chairman of the Chancellor's Parent Advisory Council and nails BloomKlein to the wall in this speech at a symposium i...
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Leonie Haimson Blasts Mayor/Tweed on Parent Survey

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Yesterday, those of who participated in the focus groups asked other parents to return the new parent survey, due to be distributed this wee...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

The Phonics Police Are Out in Force

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In today's NY Sun Andy Wolf echoes Sol Stern and makes the phonics argument again while heaping praise on Region 5's Kathy Cashin, o...
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Why is the UFT promoting BloomKlein's survey....

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... while parent groups are urging a boycott ... Was a question asked by a middle school Chapter Leader who received this from the UFT hier...
Monday, April 30, 2007

New BloomKlein speak...

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One of the arguments Joel Klein made as part of the new organization when the issue of parent and teacher input was raised was that parents ...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

UFT Committee on District Reps Meets Under Cone of Silence

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Why would we expect anything different from the UFT . Look at the make-up of the committee - mostly UFT employees. The lone voices of the ...

Ricky....

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.... was in my 6 th grade class in the late 70's. He was one of only 6 boys in the class - there were 18 girls - it made discipline iss...
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Friday, April 27, 2007

The Lucy Calkins/Teachers College plan....Weed 'em out

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Leonie Haimson had a great post on her listserv that in many ways says it all about what has been going on for the past 5 years in NYC schoo...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007

Help a Teacher Escape the DOE

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Soon after the new regions under BloomKlein started looking for scapegoats, a 3rd year teacher contacted ICE for help after being harassed....

CPAC press conference for elected parent leaders & their constituencies on Wed. May 9th

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At this Friday's meeting, ICE will discuss the issue of urging teachers who do not support the agreement made between the UFT and the ...