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Thursday, June 25, 2009

It Really Wasn't Personal, Randi

Reminder: GEM Happy Hour today from 5 to 7 PM . at Jimmy's no. 43 : 43 E. 7th (downstairs), between 2nd Av. and 3rd Av . We will ha...

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

ICE/TJC Announce Presidential Candidate for UFT Elections in 2010

PRESS RELEASE: ICE/TJC Announce Presidential Candidate for UFT Elections in 2010 The Independent Community of Educators (ICE) and Teachers f...

IS 218 Protests Budget Cuts; UFT Doesn't

Newly elected IS 218K Chapter Leader Tom Crean sends this along. Too late for publication in the NY Teacher? Did the UFT consider Edwize or ...

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

CSA/UFT in Dueling Pissing Match Over Agreement

CSA President Ernest Logan Made the Following Statement about Surprise City’s Sudden Agreement with the UFT The Council of School Super...

I'm With Sam: Stop Tweaking and Start Organizing

Sam Anderson sent this out to a listserve after the hand wringing over the desertion by the politicians on mayoral control. Surprised? Not m...

Monday, June 22, 2009

Selling out the Young: UFT/DOE Agreement- Restoration of Two Days Before Labor Day Hailed as Victory by UFT

UPDATES: See James Eterno ( FLIP-FLOP: RANDI OPPOSED TIER V ON JUNE 5th & NOW SHE WANTS IT) and Jeff Kaufman ( What Else Did She Give A...

The Duncanator: Need a School to Be Closed?

Somone giving you trouble in forcing mayoral control or charter schools down their throats? Call on THE DUNCANATOR Robots in Education Jerry...

Doctors Quality, Teacher Quality: A Double Standard

There's all this hysteria about teacher quality and the claims that this is the most important factor in education. Claims made by Obama...

Iran Uses Unity Election Counters

Ed Notes News (ENN) has discovered links between the counters used in the Iranian election and the 2005 UFT contract vote. Ahmadinejad recei...

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Randi's Options Restricted by UFT 2010 Elections

Randi Weingarten's supposed decision to turn the UFT presidency over to Mike Mulgrew sometime this summer is being squeezed by upcoming...

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Empty Promises: A Case Study of Restructuring and the Exclusion of English Language Learners in Two Brooklyn High Schools

Hey Norm, Thanks so much for your blog on our report. It’s great to start hearing from teachers about what is going on in the schools. Wou...

Voting for UFT Retiree Chapter - YAWN!

I just checked my ballot for the UFT retiree chapter. Ho, hum! I found about 10 people to vote for. I and other ICE retirees were asked to r...

"The borough president didn’t send me here to be a potted plant" - Patrick Sullivan

“The folks and parents of Manhattan do not expect me to be a rubber stamp,” Mr. Sullivan told the schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, who se...

TAKE THIS SURVEY FROM FRED SMITH

See a new survey, designed for NYC teachers about their experiences with the state ELA and Math exams. The survey was developed by Fred Smit...

Friday, June 19, 2009

CORE Does Duncan Joined by GEMNYC - UPDATED

Our own Angel Gonzalez was out in Chitown to join CORE (the Caucus of Rank & File Educators) and lend the GEM/ICE voice of protest at th...

Lisa Donlan on Governance

I am going to tape Lisa Donlan's excellent presentation on "the old system" and how BloomKlein destroyed all vestiges of a sy...

Thursday, June 18, 2009

We Told You So – Ed Notes on Mayoral Control, July 2001

For those confused by what appears to be flip flopping by the UFT on mayoral control, I have put up a piece I wrote for Ed Notes in July 200...

Sam Anderson on What's Next in the Mayoral Control Battle

While there are some aspects of Anderson's piece that I would disagree with, he makes a strong argument for rejecting tweaks and opposi...

WHAT NOW? A response to the state’s decision to uphold mayoral control

Jessica Shiller has run workshops for Teachers Unite. She makes an excellent point in that there were so few voices opposing mayoral control...

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Smile, You're on DOE Cameras

Subject: Camera Installation Project From: Chris Proctor Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 10:09 AM To: #Safety & Health Committee; #UFT Bo...

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