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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

John Dewey HS Update: Popular Teacher Dies Suddenly - Some Staffers Blame Administration For Hastening Her Death

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Was the death of [Teacher K] a case of slow murder by an arsenic-like administration, some teachers ask? Now this deadly gang of so-called...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Campaign Against Teach for America is Working: Recruiting Running Dry, Closes NYC Office

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A sign TFA is losing its attraction - from Gary Rubinstein blog Teach for America is having trouble recruiting candidates to teach in N...

Retro Video: Eva Moskowitz Success Academy Bund-Like Rally - March, 2009

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This ad for a March 28, 2009 conference to save public schools at John Jay College in NYC, illustrates a prime example of the manipulat...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Success Academy Bensonhurst Golden Plunger Award/Info on Phony Signatures

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Another reason to love Eva I have seen it for myself. They walk around and get signatures. They recently asked me and gave me a flyer ...

Reign of Terror at Murry Bergtraum as Chapter Fights Back - Updated

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John Elfrank-Dana has led a valiant effort to defend the teaching staff. They have also been hammering the union leadership for more support...

Hey Ben Chapman, Do Some Real Reporing - Ask Eva to see her list of 16,000 families

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-- make some calls to see if they weren't just walking by and signed something on a subway station. Report on how many vacant slots in S...
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Show Us the Money? When Charter Schools Are Nonprofit in Name Only

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The contracts are an example of how the charter schools sometimes cede control of public dollars to private companies that have no leg...

Exposing Tactics Charters Use to Control Admissions

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I sardonically joke during trainings, that I can give school leaders the 2 step secret to the high test score performance; recruit high ach...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

NYSAPE Calls Parents & Educators Call for a New Direction from the Regents and Demand NO Interference from Governor Cuomo After King Resignation

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With so much anti-John King stuff floating around the blogs: B-LoEdScene : How Governor Cuomo Unloaded John King for a Palm Pilot and Cash...

FULL COURT PRESS: Spend Saturday With Teachers Unite: Educate, Don't Incarcerate

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FULL COURT PRESS AGAINST   #SchoolPushout #Criminalization #School2Prison   #PoliceViolence #MassIncarceration #PrisonIndustrialComp...

John King Departure, New Fed Job Linked to Failure of CIA Torture Program

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Ed Notes has learned that the CIA was behind the move of John King. Having demonstrated he could run an effective torture program for studen...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

ISIS And Eva Moskowitz Join Heads on her 10-year, 100-school plan

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Given the difficulties poor besieged Eva Moskowitz expects to face in getting space from Mayor deBlasio, she search for space for her ambiti...

John Dewey's Principal Kathleen Elvin Screws Young Kids Out of Baskeball Program

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The Ed Notes June 26, 2014 post about much despised John Dewey HS Principal Kathleen Elvin (No Change of Tone at John Dewey HS: Principal ...
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Criticizing Opportunist Protesters

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Everyone should be skeptical of any person or group running to the front claiming to speak for, and have the demands of, a rising movemen...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Lucentis Scam Costs Medicare a Billion a Year

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When the drug maker Genentech introduced a major product in 2006, it found itself in an awkward position: persuading eye doctors to st...
Monday, December 8, 2014

How One School and One Teacher Addressed the Garner/Brown Situation

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Some teachers didn't go to rallies last Thursday afternoon, instead using the opportunity to organize a teachable moment after the schoo...

Profitship! Cashing In On Public Schools - Animation Video from "The Progressive"

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Jon Pelto from Educators Bloggers Network sent this along. You can support their work by subscribing: the brand new December/January issue o...

Eterno Off ATR Rotation Pool But Still An ATR - Time for UFT to Establish an ATR Chapter

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For those of you who are following my travelogue around the high schools of Queens, I have some news. I am being taken off the Absent ...

PS 399K Principal Marion Brown Accused of Running School With Concentration Camp Mentality

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A concentration camp and a slave plantation: this is how PS 399 the elementary school where Marion Brown is the principal has been describe...
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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone: The Police in America Are Becoming Illegitimate

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...if Eric Garner had been selling naked credit default swaps instead of cigarettes – if in other words he'd set up a bookmaking oper...
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