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Written and edited by Norm Scott: EDUCATE! ORGANIZE!! MOBILIZE!!! Three pillars of The Resistance – providing information on current ed issues, organizing activities around fighting for public education in NYC and beyond and exposing the motives behind the education deformers. We link up with bands of resisters. Nothing will change unless WE ALL GET INVOLVED IN THE STRUGGLE!

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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Preparing Teachers in Your School For UFT Officials Invasion

I'm receiving emails that the invasion of UFT officials to spin the teacher evaluation agreement (under the guise of talking about the b...

Why Seniority?

I've been asked to write an article addressing the seniority issue. In various conversations I've had, it is a more complex issue th...

Preliminary Election Results Show CORE to be in Runoff Election June 11th

Here is CORE's press release on the Chicago union elections, which win or lose in the runoff for CORE, is a cataclysmic event in teacher...

Saturday, May 22, 2010

What if they had a union and nobody joined?

Bringing Choice and Accountability to the UFT: A Teacher Calls for End to Agency Shop Generally people view the concept of an agency shop wh...

Putting BloomKlein on the Couch

Here is a very interesting analysis by Dee Alpert on the NYCEd listserve. You need to understand the Bloomberg/Klein mentality. And this i...

Friday, May 21, 2010

Let's Discuss Teacher Union Response to Ed Deform

I often get asked about the motivation and behavior of the UFT/AFT and even the NEA, which comes off as as a bit more in opposition to the a...

Chicago union election today with potentially shocking results

UPDATE : Sat, May 22: Report from Sharon Schmidt indicated that Marilyn Stewart's UCP Will make the runoff along with CORE. "At mid...

Charter School Cap About to Come Tumbling Down

We predicted that if Mulgrew won big, the dominoes would start falling. First the rubber rooms. Then the agreement on teacher evaluations. N...

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Evaluate Your Principal

Miss Eyre did at Life at the Morton School. And gave him/her a grade of "developing." I used to ask my principal friends (yes, I ...

Did Joel Klein Tell Principals to Violate Contract and State Law?

We've seen for years that BloomKlein will run rings around just about any loophole they can find. But teachers have felt that layoff by ...

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Charter School Scandals

Our buddy in Oakland, Sharon Higgins, has started a new blog. Check it out. And send her your stories. http://charterschoolscandals.blo...

UFT Sending in the Clowns

When I received two phone calls from major non-tabloid press within 15 minutes of each other last week asking if the rank and file were rest...

Obama Admin Connected to Anti-Teacher Union Ads?

I got a call from a retired teacher yesterday asking for ICE. He said he had done some research on the anti-UFT ads and traced them to some ...

Taking Down Steve Brill and Sunday Times Mag

The upcoming Steve Brill hit job on the UFT in the upcoming Sunday Times Mag is causing a stir minutes after being passed around. One of the...

CORE In Chicago Sued Duncan Over Loss of Black Teachers

His claim he wants to recruit more black teachers wears thin in light of his history in Chi-town. CORE is running in the Chicago Teacher Un...

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

CHARTER SCHOOL PARENTS PROTEST DUNCAN’S VISIT TO NYC CHARTER SCHOOL

UPDATED May 19, 9am "Now I understand how it is that Secretary Duncan says there is zero opposition to his charter school proposals. ...

Peoples Education Tribunal

An interesting idea from Sam Anderson: In the not too distant future (Fall 2010?), I suggest that we NYC progressive educators, parents, s...

Monday, May 17, 2010

The UFT is now soliciting opinions on Teacher Eval Agreement....

...and chapter leader John Elfrank responds 1. NEGATIVE: It’s a foot in the door for using Standardized Tests and Merit Pay. 2. NE...

The Future of Teacher Unionism in the United States: Striving to be Like Mexico

Looking at the local and national picture I see the future of the UFT /AFT as a company union – like the national teachers union in Mexico ...

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