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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Who's Been in Power Longer? Arab Dictators or Unity Caucus

Last Update: Sat., Feb. 19, 1pm So I was watching the News Hour and an expert on the Middle East was talking about those fossilized leader...

Black and Bloom Try to Screw Mulgrew on CEC Meet and Greet

So the CEC Presidents - that's the remnants of the school boards - send out a meet and greet invite on Feb. 9 to Mulgrew to meet with th...

Friday, February 18, 2011

NYTimes Spins for Bloomberg - Leonie Haimson blows a hole through Times coverage on cost overrun on HS Admissions

Two articles below about a new City Comptroller’s audit, showing huge cost overruns in DOE’s HS admissions system that everyone hates, wit...

Educators for Excellence Smoking Grassroots

UPDATE LINK: Accountable Talk: An Asshat By Any Other Name Well, they've won me over. Those whacky kids from E4E are doing grassroot...

Mr. Mulgrew, Tear Down This Wall

Last update, Friday, Feb. 18, 11:45AM "Who would ever think you guys could make such a big deal out of one stinkin' dinner? It&#...

First They Came...perhaps it is time - a chapter leader's opinion

Perhaps it is time to face reality. The union today is not the union of old. Teaching today is not the same job it was 5 years ago...

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Wisconsin Teachers Act: Clearly, Weingarten is NOT in the House

Can you imagine a 40% sick in call with the UFT running things? With the assault in NY coming, is the Unity Caucus led UFT capable of a mili...

Everyday Math: How Many Quail Does it Take to Fill a Union Leader?

Last Updated: Friday, Feb. 18, 2011, 8:00AM Updated LINKS as of Feb. 18: The UFT official thrown out of an Albany restaurant says portion...

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Spoofing Rhee and TFA: Last Stand for Children First Blog - Must Read

Ran across this blog. Is Gary Babab moonlighting? Make sure to click the link to the bubble test wallpaper. Our booth was a huge success. ...

The Racial School Divide in Harlem: A Public School Where Staff is Black, A Co-located Charter With a White Staff

Almost the entire staff of the public school is black or Latino/a and senior while almost the entire staff of the co-located charter is whit...

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

More on the TFA Summit

"You ask us what we are "doing." We're teaching, every day, just as we have been for years and hope to continue to, unl...

District 6 Feb. 16 Shael Suransky - the DOE operating concepts pertaining to Teaching, Learning, & Accountability: Teacher-activist Julie Cavanagh will respond

NOTE: Just heard from Julie - she is real sick and can't make it. Suransky also postponed. Even to be rescheduled in April. Josh Karan...

Leonie Haimson on GEM: "It's a very effective, powerful organization that's growing every day"

I was amused at Beth Fertig's report (see below) on Parents Across America and Educators 4 Excellence (of course, no senior teachers mee...

Winerip on Ronald Ferguson and Achievement Gap

This blog item ties in with the TFA Summit blogger pieces from this past weekend where "solutions" are merit pay, charters, etc - ...

Monday, February 14, 2011

Evil Invades District 14 (Williamsburg)- NOTE DATE CHANGE

CHARTER SCHOOLS GOT YOU WONDERING? COME AND FIND OUT WHAT THIS NEW CHARTER SCHOOL IS REALLY ALL ABOUT NYC DEPARTM...

Egyptian and Tunisian Democracy Dissidents Reach out to UFTers

The The New Times had a report today about the alliance between Egyptian and Tunisian young dissidents: a remarkable two-year collaboratio...

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Why Won't Mulgrew Defend LIFO?

I just want to open with a cat report since our Unity/union official friend seems so anxious to get an update: no doody, no vomit. Now you c...

Saturday, February 12, 2011

UPDATED: Live Blogging from Teach for America 20th Anniversary Summit, Part 4 With Closing Plenary

NOTE: See below for 4:45 added update " 6:05 PM It’s after 6. Drink tickets are now valid. Hoping to see Kaya Henderson at the bar&quo...

Live Blogging from Teach for America 20th Anniversary Summit, Part 3 - Afternoon Session

"I ask him next about attrition. While his Houston schools seem to have low attrition, can he explain New York’s? (See KIPP chart from ...

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