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Monday, February 23, 2015

National Alliance for Public Charter Schools Bogus Pro-Charter "Study" Exposed

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 Separating fact and fiction.....the reviewers found that the report's main purpose appears to be the "repetition or 'spinnin...

NY Post Uses Story of Double-Dipping Principal Linda Hill to Take Shot at Farina While Leaving Bloomberg perpetrators off hook

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Imagine if a teacher did what Linda Hill, who persecuted Francesco Portelos mercilessly, did --- double dipped and was caught red-handed! Bu...
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Sunday, February 22, 2015

New Newsletter -- NYC High School Voice - Download and Share

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I've been assisting in a new venture - an independent newsletter aimed at NYC high school teachers. The idea behind it is to offer a uni...
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MORE's Mindy Rosier - Why I am a Teacher Activist

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THANK YOU EVA MOSKOWITZ FOR GIVING US MINDY!!! Another MORE steering committee member tells about her personal journey to activism over the...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Malcolm X at Brooklyn College

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There was a buzz around the campus of Brooklyn College. I can't remember if it was 1963 or 1964. Malcolm X was coming to speak. Brookl...
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MORE/CTS Katie Lapham at Anthony Cody's Living in Dialogue - Excessive Standardized Testing in First Grade is No Fairy Tale

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We're proud of MORE's fearless, outspoken teachers like MORE former steering committee member Katie Lapham joining current MORE stee...

Saturday with Susan O

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Susan compiles some good weekend reading to snuggle up with. ======= There are several new cartoons in each category. I'm tired and i...
Friday, February 20, 2015

Bob Braun: Why the Newark student sit-in really matters

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From Bob Braun's Ledger High School principal of the year Carol Burris calls for civil disobedience ( Principal: ‘There comes a tim...

The Howler Takes Randi to the Woodshed Over Her Comment on the number of children in poverty

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Simply put, Weingarten’s claim is dumb.... What we the liberals turned out to be like! -- Daily Howler The Daily Howler taught way longer ...
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NEW Caucus Reports: Newark Students to End Occupation of Newark Public Schools Headquarters

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Friday, February 20, 2015 3:42 PM From Bob Braun blog For Immediate Release Paul Karr, NJ Communities United,  paul@ unitednj.org ...

MORE in The Amsterdam News on Unity rejection of Anti-Testing Resolution

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The governor’s plan also has New York City teachers angry. A caucus of United Federation of Teachers members, calling themselves the Move...

Social Justice/Movement vs Economic Unionism - Where Does the UFT Stand?

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"I don't have time to give a shit about Cuomo -- I'm in a life and death struggle with my principal and the union people I deal...
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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Marjorie Stamberg Analyzes UFT Special Strategy Delegate Assembly

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*Common Core and the UFT Unity Waffling* To understand the subtext here, you have to understand that the UFT is in favor of Common Cor...

Ed News you can use: Cuomo Adopts Bloomberg Ed Model, Astroturf groups rally to support him, UFT Rally Today at City Hall

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United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew, Assembly education chairwoman Cathy Nolan and others will hold a press conferenc...
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Is It Possible the "New" PEP under de Blasio is even less transparent than under Bloomberg?

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Letter from Public Advocate, CM Dromm and Class Size Matters about need for transparency with $1.25B contract February 18, 2015 VI...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Charter press conference rescheduled so Cuomo could make appearance on behalf of big $ contributors

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Leonie Haimson reports: See below; charter school presser hurriedly rescheduled today in the Bronx so the Governor could make an appear...

Fred Smith, King of Exposing Field Test Scam(s), Warns About State Ed Perfidy

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Since parents have become wiser to refusing these field tests, SED decided to be coercive. Failing that, for the moment, they are now offe...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Live Streamed - Students Occupy Newark Supt Cami Anderson's Office

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From NEW Caucus: Newark Students Union Occupies Cami's Office on the 8th Floor of 2 Cedar Live Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Arbitrator Takes Control of UFT Contract - Expect Unity Slugs to Claim We Overreact

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What is amazing is that at a time when the city has a huge surplus, we have to make the retirees whole, at a cost that extends out into th...
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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Undemocratic Teacher Unions Are the Problem, Not the Solution in the Battle Against Ed Deform

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If we don’t transform teacher unions now, our schools, our profession, and our democracy—what’s left of it—will likely be destroyed. I ...
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