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Monday, September 14, 2015

Sheri Lederman's lawsuit Points the Way to a Class Action Suit for ALL UFT teachers---

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...but it will never happen with a union leadership that defends APPR, as Arthur Goldstein points out today: Leadership Defense of APPR Is ...
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#SEAStrike - Outcome of Social Justice Unionism: Parents Support Seattle Teacher Strike, MORE Chapter Leaders Letters to Staff

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A teacher strike without the support of parents is a losing strike. The Guardian has a report on the strike: Seattle teacher strike: paren...
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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Why Common Core Results Are Bogus - and Why Are Ravitch and Bernie Horn Exposing This Instead of the Teacher Unions?

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In layman's terms... Great and must read/share article http://dianeravitch.net/2015/ 09/13/bernie-horn-the-common- core-results-are-no...
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Let's Charterize ALL Public Services - Start With Fire Department - Chris Pearce at Teachable Moments

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I love this graphic on charterized fire departments. For many years I have been raising the farce of privatizing police and fire as a contr...
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Saturday, September 12, 2015

PS 7X Teachers Support Seattle Teachers Strike #SEAStrike

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It is exciting to see when school chapters come together to support teachers on strike a continent away. Our recent post tried to make the p...
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Friday, September 11, 2015

Bruce Dixon at Black Agenda Report: Day 24, #FightForDyett Hunger Strike Continues, Black Political Class Stands for Privatization

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Bruce Dixon: The black misleadership class in Chicago and nationally, along with its new-jack aspirants like the Campaign Zero/Teach For ...
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Why Seattle Teacher Strike Matters - MORE and Port Jefferson Station Express Support

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There's no little irony that social justice oriented teacher unions are leading the way in militancy and a willingness to strike while U...
Thursday, September 10, 2015

Jitu Brown #FightforDyett from Michael Elliot

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Michael Elliot: I met Jitu Brown at the Network for Public Education Conference in Chicago last April. He shared a story with me about...
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

As Schools Open Why Do I Still Get Butterflies? - School Scope, The Wave

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This is my back to school column for this Friday. In my early years of retirement I felt joy at not going in. Now I feel the same knot my te...
Monday, September 7, 2015

Union Election Lessons -If Unity Lost they will Go to Court - Hawaii is an example

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When caucuses from around the nation (UCORE) met in Newark last month we had a presentation from Amy Perruso who was one of the statewide ...
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Sunday, September 6, 2015

Attack on Ed Deform: Unionization Closes Racial Wage Gap - Doesn't the Achievement Gap Get Closed Too?

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“When unions were more powerful in the United States, income inequality was also smaller,” she said. “One component of that is de-unioni...
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WSJ - U.S. Teachers’ Hours Among World’s Longest -

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Take that deformers. But we know the answer of Cuomo types-- teachers just aren't productive enough - make 'em work harder, rate the...

MORE September (18, 19, 25) Events - Barebecues and Back to School Parties

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 Some upcoming events Barbecue and UFT Election Fund-Raiser Friday, September 18 at 7:00pm 614 W 138th St Back to school mea...
Friday, September 4, 2015

Feeding Audrey II at the RTC Little Shop of Horrors Cast Party

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Little Shop Feedings from John Panepinto on Vimeo . https://vimeo.com/137801244 Little Shop Feedings from John Panepinto on Vimeo . ...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

UFT Caucus History/Math Lesson: Long Division - Part I

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In a multi part series I will review the history of caucuses in the UFT from my perspective over the past 45 years. I will point to a histor...
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