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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

AFT Convention: UFT/CTU Deal Expose Fault Lines in School Closing Policy

There is no more volatile issue than that of closing schools. It leads to disruption of students, parents and teachers who are tossed onto ...

AFT Convention: CTU and UFT Compromise on School Closing Reso

Want to see why the CORE victory in the June Chicago Teachers Union election has national implications? The UFT dominated convention was fac...

Monday, July 19, 2010

Conflicts of Interest Galore at Tweed - Duffy Leaves to go to Victory Charters and Cami Anderson to Run Charters While Still at DOE

Last Updated Mon, July 19, 2010, 10:14pm Has Klein passed another lemon? Garth Harries , Christopher Cerf , and now— Duffy (Thanks to MM - M...

Are The Winds Changing for the Ed Deformers?

What does it mean politically when Mike Winerip suddenly reappears as an education columnist every Monday in the NY Times, which had ended y...

Sunday, July 18, 2010

NY Times: Proficient, Proshmicient, So What's the Big Deal?

Leonie lays waste to the editorial staffs of the Daily News and NY Times while praising excellent Daily News reporters. But at least the Ne...

Jean Shepherd

My wife called me this morning from her car to tell me NPR was running a repeat of the Harry Shearer ten year old tribute to Jean Shepherd. ...

Saturday, July 17, 2010

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Seattle

---yes many funny things happened on the way to Seattle but this is about a funny thing that happened at the Rockaway Theatre Company where ...

The UFT at the AFT - Part 3

Whenever we have a UFT election campaign here in New York, people ask, "Why a 10 page book of names on the ballot? What is this delega...

Friday, July 16, 2010

UFT Coverup Over Columbia Secondary School - from INSIDE THE UNITY CAUCUS

"Did Mulgrew and Ellie Engler cover up for the principal at the drowning school? That is what was being discussed all day yesterday ...

Bill Gates at the AFT - 1984 - UPDATED

UPDATE: July 17 2pm This comment from TFA Friend ... This comes from 1984? Wow, I wasn't even born yet. -- made me think I have to d...

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Antonucci - the 13th Russian Spy?

I often call out Mike Antonucci on his selective research and reporting - always designed to show teacher unions at their worst - with the w...

UFT at the AFT - Part 2

When the UFT held a meeting for delegates at 52 Broadway a few weeks before the AFT convention (according to Unity insiders this meeting vio...

The UFT/DOE Agreement on School Closings

People have been asking for commentary on the agreement between the UFT and DOE yesterday on the closing schools. I was at the Gotham School...

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

12th Russian in Spy Probe Was Microsoft Employee

Truth stranger than fiction? You just can't make this stuff up. Or can you?

CORE Rocks, Unity S_cks! - Part 1

Photo by George Schmidt I have a lot to write on this topic but won't throw it all at you in one shot. Here is Part 1. There were a lot ...

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

If the teachers at the convention had any idea how much money Gates has put into developing non-unionized charter schools

There has been much ado about something over the Gates appearance at the AFT convention, which Ed Notes covered along with Chicago-based Sub...

Monday, July 12, 2010

The Underbelly: Teacher Pay Linked to Student Evaluations

" If I were a veteran teacher in Hillsborough, I would take to the hills, now!" Leonie Haimson There was much talk and exciteme...

Gary Babad - The Eleventh Agent

Gary hits another home run. He left out the 12th agent, a certain union leader. July 12, 2010 (GBN News): Ten Russians recently deport...

Randi the Temptress

I popped up in bed early this morning with this Adam and Eve vision. A short time after an email to David Bellel, he delivers a beaut. David...

AFT Gates- California teacher chastises Randi for actions at Gates Protests

AFT Gates- Randi chastised for actions by California teacher http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkSSSYQuIcs

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