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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

CAPE In Action: PS 15/PAVE Redux, UPDATED

UPDATED Jan. 20, 9am: CAPE Communique: Oh what a feeling... Juan Gonzalez on PS 15/PAVE in Daily News: Nothing Schools Chancellor Joel Klein...

Norman Siegel Talks to Parent Meeting About the Protest at Bloomberg's Residence

Norman Siegel tells a parent conference sponsored by Class Size Matters in NYC on January 16 about the recent court victory that gives prote...

Monday, January 18, 2010

Metropolitan Corporate Academy Rally, January 14, 2010

Metropolitan Corporate Academy students, parents, educators, and alumni came together in powerful unity on Thursday, January 14, 2010, speak...

Who owns the media, even the “public” media? A Teacher in Bed-Stuy Posts to Beth Fertig's Blog

A teacher posted this today on Beth Fertig's News Blog on WNYC's website: When will the press expose the “distraction”, to use ...

Origins and Purpose of "No Child Left Behind" and AFT/UFT Complicity

Susan Crawford wrote on the NYC Ed News listserve: In looking up the site reference for Kathy Emery's dissertation on the Business Round...

Sunday, January 17, 2010

ICE Petition Signing Event at Murray Bergtraum HS, Jan. 29, 3-7 PM

NOTE: YOU MUST SIGN UP IN ADVANCE FOR THIS EVENT SO YOUR INFO CAN BE PREPRINTED ON PETITIONS TO SAVE YOU LOTS OF TIME From Ellen Fox, ICE El...

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Friday Night Fights! from CAPE

Our pals at CAPE have been monitoring communications between Joel Klein, PEP member extraordinaire Patrick Sullivan, and parent activists - ...

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Parent, Student, and Teacher Protesters Win Right to Rally on Bloomberg’s Block

This is all over the internet already (ICE, CAPE, NYC Parents) but I might as well put it up for those too lazy to hit the links. Ed Notes w...

More School Closing Events

Friday, January 15, 2010

Picketing a fight with Mike

I'm off to the court house now. Updates later. By BRUCE GOLDING January 13, 2010 A group opposed to Mayor Bloomberg 's plan for more...

Does the UFT REALLY Oppose the Concept of School Closings?

There's lots of sturm and drang about the UFT reaction to the massive closing of schools and what appears to be a much stronger response...

Weingarten Ally, Detroit Teacher Union Leader Recalled After Disastrous Contract, updated

See comment 2 by Mike Antonucci of the EIA who checked the Detroit Fed of T web site which says the recall was illegal. Read on to where I s...

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Here are a few videos about Alfred E. Smith (AES) Career & Technical Education High School and the proposed phase-out

AES Shop Classes, put to music by Mark Noakes, click here AES Student Interviews, click here AES Science Club, click here Also: To learn mor...

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Choir Academy Closing Meeting Reports

Report from Choir Academy You may wish to know that Choir had a large rally outside of the school made up of staff, students and parents o...

Jan. 21 Rally at Bloomberg Home Update

A recently activated teacher organizing for the Jan. 21 protest at Bloomberg home writes: Hey Everyone, I made it to three schools yesterday...

Brooklyn College Professor in Passionate Defense of Maxwell

Dr. Wayne Reed talks about the remarkable collaboration between Brooklyn College and Maxwell HS and how closing it will destroy many years o...

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Parents, Students, and Teachers Fight for the Right to Protest on the Mayor’s Block

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 NYC Parents, Students, and Teachers Fight for the Right to Protest on the Mayor’s Block Today, attorneys Norman ...

Randi Races to the Bottom: Don't Expect the UFT to Rise Above

Here is another in our "UFT/AFT as Vichy collaborators" series: I hope no one was surprised that Randi Weingarten today made it cl...

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