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Friday, August 17, 2007

The Excessed and ATR's Want to Meet

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Calls and emails are coming in from ATR's. Each story has its own backdrop, but I'll stay away from these now. There is certainly a...
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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Steve Quester on UFT Role in Debbie Almontaser Resignation

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"I write as a White, Jewish anti-racist educator who is heartsick over the role his union played in this sordid affair." - Steve Q...
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Friday, August 10, 2007

Stress Relief for UFT Leaders

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A Unity Caucus critic comments: "It amazes me that time and time again people like you in ICE/ TJC fail to acknowledge the amazing eff...
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Thursday, August 9, 2007

Daily Doins: Aug. 9

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A fairly new chapter leader is very serious about getting a complete picture of UFT history and sharing it with the teachers in his school ...
Wednesday, August 8, 2007

A Sight to Behold

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Worth sharing from Ira Goldfine who volunteers at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens: When I got down to the Discovery Garden this morning there...

Seriously folks....

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.... let's talk educational steroids. Pump up those test score and grad rate muscles. Cream the best kids. Lose the potential chronic lo...
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Barry, Mike and Joel: It Ain't Tainted

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The connections is so obvious, this post can pretty much write itself. Barry and BloomKlein have been using the same cream(ing) to get simil...

What Tweed Hath Wrought

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Fleeing th e coop While critics of the BloomWeinKlein reforms of the schools in NYC often focus on the big picture, a snapshot of what happe...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

These are the people running the UFT

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Son Of Unity has left the following comment [about 50 times on many posts on many blogs] Seriously, does ICE even serve a real purpose o...
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Teaching Fellows in The Village Voice

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A great read in The Voice this article reveals many of the fault lines in the Teaching Fellows program. The answer to the problem - paying t...
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Monday, August 6, 2007

UFT/DOE Plan for ATR's

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Modeled on the day laborer concept, the UFT and Tweed have agreed on a plan to address the numerous ATR's (absentee teacher reserves) ...
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How "Open" is the Open-Market?

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... the title of a post by blogger Syntactic Gymnastics , indicates that even newer teachers are having trouble with the much bragged about ...
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Saturday, August 4, 2007

Tweed's Trojan Horse

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Bloomberg/Klein Intentions Revealed The Department of Education is pledging to help solve a charter school space crunch, pointing to an aggr...
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Friday, August 3, 2007

Joel Klein Bounced to Rubber Room by Aris

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Another gem from Gary Babad: GBN News has learned that in an ironic twist, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein has been suspended from his duties ...
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Thursday, August 2, 2007

NCLB: Test the Kids

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Susan Ohanian and the gang at the Educator Roundtable have concocted this fabulous video: Now showing at: http://susanohanian .org/show_ ncl...
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Do you hear snoring?

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Guest Column by Woodlass You've heard about scripted lesson plans for the classroom? Wait until you see what the DOE has scripted for...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

NYC Grad Rates Rising?

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Samuel Freedman's column in today's NY Times (posted here ) finally touches on the source of DOE claims for rising grad rates. Of...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Privatization & Mayoral Control

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Mayoral control of school systems is a symptom rather than a cause. What has occurred is privatization of policy over public schools, wher...
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What Joel Klein Really Wants

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From his first days Klein claimed the UFT contract hindered his ability to place experienced teachers in schools of high need and wanted the...
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Monday, July 30, 2007

UFT To Members: Seniority is No Longer An Issue Because We Eviscerated It

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......was posted by Jeff Kaufman on the ICE blog . It lays out the basic seniority issues very well from the teacher rights point of view. W...
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