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Saturday, June 14, 2008

Who's Funding the Education Quality Project?

Reformatted: Thread is in reverse order. Leonie in blue, Cantor in red. GBN News discovers answer to secret funds for Educational Equity Pr...

Friday, June 13, 2008

The Story of A and E

A story to illustrate why the simplistic "close the achievement gap and all will be well" zombies out there make longtime teachers...

Can TFA's Be Saved?

I was at a small meeting yesterday that was attended by a 4th year Teach for America alum. Not biased against the union, she understands wha...

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Sharpton & Klein

Perfect together. From a DOE Press Release: Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein and Reverend Al Sharpton Launch Weekly "Education Equa...

How the UFT Spends Dues Money

Check the ICE blog comments for the latest posts for some fun reading from the union's LM-2 report. Believe me, it's even worse tha...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Ethics (and the lack there of)

(For The Wave, June 13, 2008: www.rockawave.com) by Norman Scott Defining ethics can be more elusive than holding onto to a wet bar of so...

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Results from Principal Survey relevant to the heat wave

In our recent principal survey, 38% of principals said their schools lacked sufficient electrical power, and many commented on the need for ...

"Emergency" UFT Chapter Leader Meeting...

Revised ...there were some ticked off CL's . Weeks ago Randi Weingarten announced there would be an important chapter leader meeting at...

Monday, June 9, 2008

Randi says bonus program meant to encourage collaboration....

.... between teachers and administrators, not to improve teacher quality This one has to go on Letterman's Top Ten funniest list of Rand...

Sunday, June 8, 2008

NYC Teachers Protest SEIU Backstabbers at PR Parade

There's a lot of history here (check the ednotes blog sidebar for links). We got to meet the FMPR president and other strikers at the ...

LA Teachers DO IT! A One Hour Work Stoppage

inconceivable in NYC, the UFT – collaboration, new unionism, atr and rubber room abomination Tens of thousands of teachers formed picket lin...

Found on Schools Matter: New Film on Teachers

I actually sent Michael Moore an email urging him to do such a film. But maybe it's on the way. Jim Horn points the way to a trailer on...

LITTLEST PROTESTORS “STORM” Tweed

I'm curious as to how this takes place during school hours. Are kids being pulled by the parents? Maybe it is an official school trip. I...

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Pre-K Fiasco and reject survey/rally on Sunday

More evidence of the massive screw-up in preK admissions, compounding the screw ups in middle school admissions, G and T and everything else...

Randi and Hillary

Sent to ICE-mail: I heard Randi is looking very glum these days because of Hillary's defeat. I guess her political future is finished. W...

How Many Sides of His Mouth Can Tim Daly Speak Out Of?

"Is it appropriate to allow teachers to be placed teaching a class they are not licensed for?" The New Teacher Project's Tim D...

Friday, June 6, 2008

Pssst, Kid. Have I got a pre-k school for you

Two articles in today's NY Times touches on the utter incompetency of the BloomKlein regime. The pre-k debacle and the principals of sc...

Shanker Blows Up the World

The review Vera Pavone and I wrote, "Albert Shanker: Ruthless Neocon" of Richard Kahleberg's "Albert Shanker: Tough Libe...

LA Teachers to Protest Budget Cuts by Cutting First Period

LA Teachers to Protest today Judge allows L.A. teachers to protest California education budget. The school district loses a bid to block the...

A Victory for Public Education at Julia Richman...

... but the fight is far from over Does the BloomKlein administration want to destroy the Julia Richman complex, a successful small school m...

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