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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Fund for the Public Schools Funnels Money for Children to Politics

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Updated 10/24 am Any intrepid reporters out there to check this out? We got this in the mail. I was checking out the financial information o...
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SPECIFICATION 6

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SPECIFICATION 6: Respondent's actions caused widespread negative publicity and notoriety to the High School of Fashion Industries an...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Merit Pay - The Play's the Thing

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Schoolwide Merit Pay is now playing in a school in New York City near you. ACT 1 Scene 1 A Principal's Office in a school that will be ...
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Sunday, October 21, 2007

When was the last time you “nurtured” a teacher, Randi?

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....asks Woodlass, a 20 year veteran teacher and recent ATR on her blog under assault . Here is an excerpt: Is the wor...
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"Where is Al Shanker when we need him most?"

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NOT!! I have just finished reading Kahlenberg's book (Tough Liberal) and will be co-writing a review for New Politics and Shanker could...
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Saturday, October 20, 2007

City Hall and the United Federation of Teachers have worked in secret for months

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to come up with this plan. The teachers union says the bonus plan might sound like something they have long opposed, merit pay where princip...

Enough With the Committees

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From the Ed Notes mail bag In the new reality, which brings fewer protections for my rights, the salary I earn is more important than my te...

What Randi will Suggest at the Oct 30th "Rubber Room" Meeting

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TAGNYC is becoming an effective internal lobbying group in the UFT on rubber room, ATR, and U-rated issues. Their demo at the DA on Weds. ma...
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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Dispatch - The Movie

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Some people at the Delegate Assembly, where I gave out the final monthly print edition of Education Notes, seemed worried. What would I do w...
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Joe Torre Rejects Merit Pay

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With Joe Torre out of a job after leaving a potential $8 million incentive laden offer on the table by the NY Yankees, he has been asked to...
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UFT Opts Out

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Agent Scott Boras reported today his client, the United Federation of Teachers, has opted out of the fight for better working conditions and...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Merit Pay Has Arrived

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Updated 10/18/07 8am Check Jeff Kaufman and James Eterno's extensive report on the ICE blog where they also cover details of the pensi...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Unity Gives Itself a Raise – With New Action Support

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Updated Tues, Oct. 16, 9pm New Action joined in with Unity at Monday's UFT Exec. Bd . meeting in voting the same raise for UFT staff a...
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Go Baltimore - More Alonso

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DB has been tracking events in Baltimore where Klein Klone Andres Alonso seems to be meeting a bit of resistance from a union that did not ...
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Monday, October 15, 2007

Weds: Protest for Teachers' Rights

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TAG has put out a call for teachers to join us in a demonstration to tell Randi that the UFT is here to support and defend the right of teac...
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The UFT "SWAT" Team and the Rubber Room

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So we are alive!!!! – message from teacher in the Bronx Rubber Room (full message at the bottom of this post. Pictures sent to Ed Notes by...
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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Merit Pay, the UFT, TJC, and NCLB

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At one point I did not understand how the UFT and Weingarten could support merit pay in any form. But after reading the Kahlenberg book o...
Saturday, October 13, 2007

Chapter Leader Fights Back Against Paperwork

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I received this from an elem school Chapter Leader. Some might say this will have no impact. Maybe not. But a proactive chapter leader has a...
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Nailing BloomKlein's Ass to the Wall

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Leonie Haimson posted this on her nyceducationnews listserve yesterday (Friday). Read her and her band of merry men (and women) on the NYC P...