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Written and edited by Norm Scott: EDUCATE! ORGANIZE!! MOBILIZE!!! Three pillars of The Resistance – providing information on current ed issues, organizing activities around fighting for public education in NYC and beyond and exposing the motives behind the education deformers. We link up with bands of resisters. Nothing will change unless WE ALL GET INVOLVED IN THE STRUGGLE!

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Saturday, March 26, 2016

Mulgrew Supported Common Core in 2013 Testomony on Regents Reform Agenda

Some of our newer MOREs who are not as familiar with the ed deform loving Quislings in the UFT seemed surprised when the Delegate Assembl...

Friday, March 25, 2016

Sharon Higgins: Killing Ed Film Opens Tonight at Cinema Village

Sharon Higgins has been in the front lines in the battle against ed deform for a hell of a long time especially in the exposure of crooked ...

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Video: NYCORE2016 - Fight the Power - Dr. Bettina Love and DreamYard Mini - The Wolfpack Dance

Keynoter Dr. Bettina Love, U of Georgia Don't miss these videos from the March 19 NYCORE opening ceremonies. The conference drew al...

Fred Smith in City Limits Debunks Unity Caucus Buddy Farina, Elia Phony Sales Pitch

Closer examination reveals that shortening the tests, removing their time limits and working with a new testing partner are not quite the ...

Katie Lapham, #MORE2016 Elementary School Ex Bd Candidate Slams Fariña's 3/15/16 letter to parents

How how much do I love the MORE people on our slate. My latest blog post is a reaction to Fariña's 3/15/16 letter to parents about...

The Missive from RBE: Tisch Family has been doing damage to humans for a long long time...

Merryl Tisch is no less guilty of crimes against the children, parents and teachers of this state than the rest of her family. Received th...

UFT Election Update: 33 Candidates and No Mule; 12000 MORE Leaflets To Go At DA

The UFT election committee met after the Delegate Assembly and reaffirmed the long-time established rule of 40 candidates needed to attain...

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

UFT Election, ATR Update: Luck Be a Lady and Her Name is Norm

I drew first and picked Jia Lee for top of the ballot. I had a busy day yesterday. I had a lunch date with a teacher who was going to ...

Lunch With a Chapter Leader I Met for the First Time

I had a lunch date with a teacher, a long time supporter going back to ICE, who was going to put MORE election lit in the mailboxes of 5 n...

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

UFT Election Update: Today is the Drawing for Slate Positions - #MORE2016

I'm heading over to meet a teacher for lunch who has volunteered not only to put #MORE2016 election leaflets in the boxes of his own sch...

Monday, March 21, 2016

Betty Rosa In, Tisch Out - Ding Dong

Dr. Betty Rosa just elected Chancellor of the Regents! The tabloids are crying that this is the end of ed deform. Kudos to Leonie Haimson...

ATRS Targeted by Brienza Consultant Firm Formerly Run by Mulgrew's Sister

An ATR told me an interesting story. In addition to a field supervisor, he was also visited by some guy from a company called Brienza Aca...

Friday, March 18, 2016

An ATR Tells Us a Story - Where is the UFT's Plan of Assistance to Defend an ATR Under Assault?

A MORE contact, a former chapter leader, reached out to us Support should be in quotes because she felt an ATR who was rotated into her...

Thursday, March 17, 2016

Help the IS 192Q FLL Robotics Team Go to the Nationals in St. Louis

I spent part of last Friday and all day Saturday at the Javitz Convention Center at the FIRST Lego League (FLL - ages 9-14) 80 team roboti...

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

UFT Elections and #MORE2016: What is to be learned?

MORE is getting requests for election literature from people we don't know. I made a bunch of drops at schools yesterday (and stuffed ...

Monday, March 14, 2016

On Guns and the Apple Privacy Battle - It's About Protecting US from Abusive Dictators

I watched the 60-minute segment last night on Encryption and things suddenly became crystal clear. Using the word "privacy" makes...

#MORE2016: Hard to Keep Up With MOREs All Over the Place

Jake Jacobs, ‎ New York BATs, MORE candidate for UFT Ex Bd At-large March 11 FULL HOUSE IN NEW PALTZ: Amazing job at pub...

Sunday, March 13, 2016

What to Make of "I'm for Bernie or Donald?" Who's to Blame for Trump?

To imagine that Donald Trump is a sort of comb-over John the Baptist for some eventual progressive Jesus is a fiction we force on ourse...

#MORE2016 @NYCORE: Building a Teacher Movement Through the UFT Elections

MORE and Change the Stakes is involved in 3 workshops at next week's NYCORE conference which is expected to attract a 1000 attendees. I&...

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