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Monday, September 22, 2014

Success Academy Charter School Teachers Overwhelmingly White - Higher % Than NYCDOE Schools

59% of NYC DOE teachers are white. Check out the astounding numbers of white teachers in the Success Charter school chain obtained by the Te...

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Secession Fever: Scotland, Catalonia, MORE and (Hopefully) Most of the American South

When 45% of the people vote to secede as they did in Scotland, that is one heavy minority for Britain to bear. Note the push for independenc...

Friday, September 19, 2014

Girls Prep Charter Takes Kids Not Picked Up on Time to Local Precinct, Threatens Parents with Administration of Childrens Services

Girls Prep can order these for Pre-k Girls Prep has figured out a way to start the school to prison pipeline in pre-k. Children first in...

On Democratic Centralism (Loyalty Oaths?) - From Trotsky to Shanker and Others

(Albert Shanker mentor) Max Shachtman ( / ˈ ʃ ɑː k t m ən / ; September 10, 1904 – November 4, 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. He...

Thursday, September 18, 2014

UFT Caucuses and Loyalty Oaths - How About a UFT Cut-the-Strings, Free-the-Puppets Caucus?

Arthur Goldstein has another assault on Unity Caucus at NYC Educator ( How About a UFT Cut-the-Strings, Free-the-Puppets Caucus?) Arthur is...

PS 147 Mini-Reunion

Schools are wonderful places to work when you work with wonderful people. We had our differences but always had good times with each other -...

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

An ICEer Comments on the Sharpton March

Judging an organization's commitment to social justice on the basis of how they stand on a demo called by one of the most dishonest p...

MY TIP and IPC Story - by John Elfrank-Dana

AP: The evaluator chooses if video will be used. (She points out rightly that the UFT gave the discretion of video to the evaluator inste...

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

A Letter to Janella: Is Bergtraum Special?

This is the second time in 4 years this chapter has managed to convince a Chancellor but NOT THEIR OWN UNION, that a principal is abusive...

57 Page Manual from UFT on How to Challenge a Rating

If some people throw their hands up in the air and say F - - - it! after seeing the complicated and arduous task of appealing -the manual...

Join Battle Against More Eva Invasions - Monday Sept 22

We know things are stacked against Eva resisters and SUNY charter authorizers are basically gangsters. These schools are about Eva's pol...

Monday, September 15, 2014

Mercedes Rips Up Randi for Robocalls

I love Mercedes Schneider all the time, but send special love when she deals with the Randi the hypocrite issue. And she even has a link t...

Another March and Why I Ain't Marchin' Anymore - Unless People are going to a bar afterwards

So after sitting through a meeting on Saturday where the Staten Island march for Eric Garner was raised to the level of the most important...

Saturday, September 13, 2014

GODSPELL OMG, Frank Caiati Works a Miracle

I am not big on Jesus stuff - except maybe how his Bar Mitzvah went. But being part of the set-building team, a set designed by Director Fra...

NYSUT Update: New Organizers Will Not Be Unionized

UPDATE from a source: I heard that the new organizers hired will in fact be PSA members. My understanding is that all NYSUT staff, except ...

Friday, September 12, 2014

Ravitch Blog: Success Charter Chain Built on Pile of Shit

It is implausible to assume that Success Academy accomplishes magic in the early grades and then barely manages to hold ground in upper g...

Thursday, September 11, 2014

We coddle bad cops, vilify good teachers - Salon.com

We defer to cops even when they kill, and scapegoat schools for the ills America has given up on. This must c...

Newark Students Come up BIG! Where was the union?

The kids were heroes yesterday... Bob Braun Who would you rather be: Newark or Chicago? Who has the better strategy: Joe Del Grosso, or ...

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