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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Corrupt DOE's OSI Exposed on Debra Fisher Case

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Leonie Haimson Reports: For years, people have complained about the unfair and biased work of OSI as regards the incompetent or corrupt...
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Monday, August 17, 2015

UFT Election 2016 Advice: Ignore the Retiree Vote

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With 52% of the total vote in the UFT 2013 elections coming from retirees, Happy retirees - of course the largest voting block with the...
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Saturday, August 15, 2015

Mulgrew Lies Distort History of UFT Compliance with Bogus Test Scores Under BloomKlein

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UFT ad congratulating BloomKlein on test scores (Ed Notes) Weingarten Gives Credence to the BloomKlein Testing Myth ... Ed Notes, June ...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

MORE, Change the Stakes, NYC OPT OUT Condemn Elia’s Threats Against NYC Schools

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Jia Lee, on vacation in California, led this initiative. Teachers, Parents and Students Condemn Elia’s Threats Against NYC Schools   ...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

TODAY: MORE Tackles UFT Elections at Summer Series - Presidential Candidate Will Not Be Emphasis of Campaign

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It's not Mulgew, Stupid - It's the 60-old Unity Machine. They can replace Mulgrew with a chimp and it will win. That is why some of...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Ed Notes Newark Stringer Abbie Shure on Teaching in Newark

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We ended up participating in a group about assisting struggling teachers. I came out as a struggling teacher despite my advanced age... A...
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Aiming at Aimee (Horowitz): Was she the worst Superintendent in the DOE?

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A veteran educator said the email was evidence that Kerr — who reports to Aimee Horowitz, executive superintendent of de Blasio’s Schoo...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Jim Callaghan in Daily News on Ferguson and Staten Island

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Good to hear from Jim, who as an ace investigative reporter for the NY Teacher until Mulgrew fired him in July 2010. Jim knows where all the...

George Schmidt: Chicago Teacher Strikes have always had community support

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Our gang at UCORE George Schmidt wades through the fiction. When I asked people over the weekend at the UCORE conference who think they...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Should MORE be LESS? The Key to Organizing Opposition in the UFT is to Decentralize

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I've attended a few MORE meetings. While I was very impressed overall, they did not seem particularly interested in the issues of mic...
Sunday, August 9, 2015

Can the UFT/Unity Leadership Benefit From a Negative Supreme Court Right to Work Decision?

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Norm-  rumors persist that the UFT leadership is quite concerned with the upcoming Supreme Court decision regarding dues check-off. Right ...
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Saturday, August 8, 2015

NYT: Judge Rules New York Teacher Exam Did Not Discriminate Against Minorities

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The ruling is a departure from earlier decisions by the same judge, Kimba M. Wood of Federal District Court in Manhattan, in which she t...
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Friday, August 7, 2015

UFT Election Question: Why Focus on HS Seats to Exclusion of Elementary?

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I have always wondered about the focus on HS seats ... what is up with that? So unfair to the elementary schools... Question on FB in respo...
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