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Thursday, June 23, 2011

Leonie Haimson summarizes court hearings in the school closure/co-location lawsui - June 22

On June 22 Oral arguments were heard in the UFT/NAACP school closing/co-location lawsuit. State Supreme Court Judge Paul Feinman’s courtr...

Monday June 27: Planned school walkout and march to Tweed by parents of special ed students in Williamsburg/Bed-Stuy (District 14) out to protest Eva Moskowitz Invasion of IS 33

Ed Notes will be there to cover this. I was at the public hearing on June 16 and Khem Irby and I spoke ( Norm Scott and Khem Irby take on Su...

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Dr. Mark Naison - Teach for America and Me: A Failed Courtship

UPDATED: Sat., June 26, 9AM This June 23 post has reveived a lot of comment and interest as just about anything on TFA does. In addition to...

NYC Screenings of "The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman" Thursday, Saturday, Sunday

Thursday, June 24, 4:30 New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE) & the Public Science Project (PSP) Invite you to a screening ...

GEM's Mollie Bruhn Part of Move.On Event Thursday -

I haven't told you much about Mollie Bruhn who has worked with GEM from its earliest days. Mollie was a key player in putting together &...

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Column for The Wave: The Longest Day

This column will appear in print on Friday, June 25 but is pertinent for today's activities. The Longest Day By Norm Scott June...

"The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman" Reaches India

We've been telling you that we have requests from all 50 states and 6 continents. Many of the comments demonstrate the impact ed deform ...

Monday, June 20, 2011

The Lies Arne Duncan Tells: Check Those Charter School Waiting Lists

My new tactic: whenever charter school proponents talk about their waiting lists ask them to reveal them and watch them run for the hills. S...

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Recheck Those Grad Rates: A School Pimps the Crap

Multiply this story by thousands and we have an entire lost generation of students under Black&BloomWalKlein. How does that equate with ...

New schedule: Join Bloombergville at 12 and 6 every day

Please join us every day for Rallies/Public Gatherings at 12 and 6 PM General Assemblies at 10 AM and 8 PM Last night we decided at the ...

SRO at Staten Islanders for Real Budget Solutions & Against the Cuts Town Hall

A grassroots group has formed to fight the budget cuts - Staten Islanders for Real Budget Solutions: Against the Cuts. On Tuesday, June 14...

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Next GEM Meeting: Monday, June 20th-- Help Build a Campaign for Test-Free Teacher Evaluations!

The push for test-based accountability is out of control and seems to have no sign of slowing down. Standardized test scores have already b...

MUST SEE - Battle for Brooklyn This Weekend at Cinema Village -

6/18 A group of us from ICE went to see the movie last night and it is a powerful indictment of the corporate-government alliance along the...

Friday, June 17, 2011

Fight Back Friday at PS 193K

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CORE/Chicago Party Tonight to Support the Puerto Rican Teachers Union

We've been reporting on the situation in Puerto Rico for years - just search FMPR on this blog for loads of background. The union, led...

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Norm Scott and Khem Irby take on Success Charter Network at Public Hearing

We attended the public hearing tonight. Success sent one person who didn't speak. The audience had 5 people from one of the current Dist...

I am that cancer survivor, and that element of Landeau's attack is the least of it While Another MS 216 Teacher Writes to Mulgrew

Yesterday I had a few conversations with people at the DA who said things along these lines: Isn't Mulgrew so much more militant than R...

NYC Education Groups Deliver Bloomberg News: Bloomberg Social Promotion Policy a Sham/Seven 50-Foot Scrolls To Mayor Bloomberg With More Than 16,000 Signatures Opposing Classroom Cuts

Bloomberg has often boasted about his promotion policy, saying that previously students passed from grade to grade regardless of whether t...

Eva HSA Hearings in Harlem and Williamsburg Tonight

Harlem- from Noah Gotbaum Please join us tonight at the Harlem PS149/Harlem Success I charter expansion hearing at 41 W 117 th St. at 6 pm...

Kids against teacher layoffs

Hi, guys. Please share this with as many people as possible. I want the message to get out to the electeds - this is about the kids and...

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