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Monday, June 11, 2007

Green Dot, Randi - Jeff Kaufman Comments

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There's been much ado about Green Dot charters and possible collaboration between the UFT and Green Dot. Today's NY Sun addresses t...
Sunday, June 10, 2007

LA Dreamin'

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Some very instructive points in this article and George Schmidt's comment comparing the reactions of teacher unions in LA, Chicago and N...
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Saturday, June 9, 2007

Merit Pay in Play

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The NY Sun's Elizabeth Green reports that some schools will give individual teachers merit pay for performance. Randi Weingarten objects...
Friday, June 8, 2007

When in Rome....

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Just back from a week in a city where buildings were extensively renovated - in 100 AD when they were already a couple of hundred years old...
Thursday, May 31, 2007

Toussaint on why we need political climate change

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In this speech, Roger Toussaint makes a political analysis, not like Randi Weingarten who is all about tactics and strategy and political ma...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

May 9th DA Report: Surreality 2

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(See companion video on you tube after reading this account. Link below) Instead of being part of a massive rally to point to the insanity o...
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The Wave - School Scope Column

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-- will appear in the June 1st edition DOE To Eliminate Job Of Principal As reported by Gary Babad (Gadfly News): In a stealth announcement,...
Tuesday, May 29, 2007

What's Richard Mills Smoking?

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For many years we have called for the resignation of NY State Commissioner Richard Mills to resign for so many reasons there's no room o...
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Monday, May 28, 2007

George Schmidt on a bunch of stuff

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The NY Times reported the other day: Next year, the four pregnancy schools and the last seven New Beginnings centers for students with beha...
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Saturday, May 26, 2007

My friend's son the rock star

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My old Brooklyn College friend Dan just emailed the link to his son Sam's (that's him on the left) latest rock efforts on youtube ....
Thursday, May 24, 2007

Margaret Spellings on The Daily Show

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The biggest challenge to low student performance: the winner is low expectations ! Hey! Just change perceptions and miracles will take pla...
Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Randi, Green Dot, the AFT

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Jeff Kaufman's report on the UFT Ex. Bd. May 21st meeting at the ICE blog contained the following: Randi decided to use her time reporti...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Mendel Honed Skills Negotiating with Ed Notes

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Impressed by his negotiating skills at convincing the editor of Ed Notes to stop video taping at the May 9th Delegate Assembly so as not to ...
Monday, May 21, 2007

Coming Soon to UFT Staff: Loyalty Oaths?

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With his new position as UFT Staff Director, Unity Caucus leader Jeff Zahler will have to give up his dual full-time positions of monitoring...
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Chicago, Chicago...

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George Schmidt provides a preliminary analysis of the Chicago Teacher union election. There will be more to come. May 21, 2007 The Chicago T...