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Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Speculating on a UFT/Tweed Side Agreement on ATRs

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There has been some speculation concerning tonight's UFT Exec. Bd meeting over some kind of agreement with Tweed urging principals to ...
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Thousands join march over school class sizes....

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....read a recent headline. No. This is not in New York City. Or anywhere in the USA... .....where teacher unions are more concerned with co...
Monday, November 17, 2008

Is There a Deal on ATRs Between the UFT and Tweed?

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The UFT will hold a special Executive Board meeting Tues, Nov. 18 at 6PM at 52 Broadway with the sole agenda item being: Special order of bu...

Report on Panel for Education Policy meeting (Monday, February 17).

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Read Marjorie Stamberg's report below on tonight's surreal PEP meeting at Tweed. ATRs, rubber rooms (Jeremy Garrett from the Rubber ...

Union Busting 101

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[The] Mayor and Chancellor are considering restoring the District's power to create nonunionized charter schools and possibly seeking fe...
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More on Detroit Union Elections: Steve Conn and Heather Miller Get Jobs Back

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Both Steve Conn and Heather Miller recently go their jobs back after being fired for participating in a rally. See http://www.youtube.com/wa...

The Next Line of Attack on Teacher Unions: TFA Slates Run in Union Elections?

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The Detroit News is urging support for a group of pro charter school teachers who are running a slate in the Detroit Teacher Union elections...
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Sunday, November 16, 2008

Tweed Public Relations Head Gets Mail

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David Cantor, from the Tweed PR Department, responded on the NYC Education News parent dominated listserve to some of the critical comments ...

Q & A With a UFT CL

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Hi Norm, Q: How are you? I would like to know if you have heard from any other chapter leaders/teachers about how they are so disgusted wit...

Jane Addams got a D

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Dear Colleagues, Yeah, [Jane] Addams got a D. But the fix was in, right from the start, for us to "fail." A closer look at the &qu...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

Rhee in DC: Foxes in the Chicken Coop

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Susan Ohanian offered this comment at her site on another article on Rhee in DC. As usual, Sam Smith offers a concise, on-target critique....
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Radio interview blasts holes in DOE's reported 'successes'

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November 14, 10:31 AM by Lorri Giovinco-Harte, New York City Education Examiner We sometimes forget that the mayor of New York City owns one...

Thomas Friedman’s World Is Flat Broke

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From Susan Ohanian's "Outrages:" http://susanohanian.org/show_atrocities.php?id=8320 Vanity Fair [B]ased on the bad news comi...
Friday, November 14, 2008

The Cost of Accountability

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Leonie Haimson has a great wrapup on the costs of accountability, money drained from use in the classroom. Yes, the accountability movement ...
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Obama Forced To Reign From US Senate

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Republican investigators, Fox News an Rush Limbaugh are charging that Barack Obama is being forced to resign from the US Senate this Sunday....
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Joel Klein's Perfomance: Leonie and I on WBAI this Morning

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UPDATE: David B. extracted just the portion of the program with Leonie and I. The WBAI full program segment: http://archive.wbai.org/files/m...
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Emily LaGates Says - "Never Mind!"

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It's really worth noting what was happening in Seattle at the Gates Foundation shindig where reporter extraordinaire Elizabeth Green giv...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Bowling for Bailouts: Billions for Corps, Nada for Class Size

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This article is part of the Ed Notes handout at the Delegate Assembly today and will also appear in The Wave this Friday. Click on the image...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Gates Sees the Light on Small Schools Impact

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Leonie Haimson reported on the nyc education news listserve: Elizabeth Green is in Seattle, live-blogging from a Gates Foundation event wher...
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ATR "Rally" Changed to Candlelight Vigil

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UPDATED Nov. 12, 7AM The UFT, following its "successful" Tweed candlelight vigil of a year ago for rubber room denizens (check to ...
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