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Saturday, November 18, 2017

School Scope: Working With Your Hands Experiences Ignored in Schools, RTC Offers Set Building Class

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Great minds must think alike - Arthur has a blog on renewal schools that touches on our schools no longer offering real training in trades -...

Memo From the RTC: Final Weekend For Ever After of Rockaway Café: Let’s Talk Vocals

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Only two more performances left - tonight and Sunday matinee. Published Nov. 17, 20117 in The WAVE. Memo From the RTC: Final Weekend For...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Jeff Bryant: Democrat Ed Reformers BEWARE!

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Although the reform campaign has long been marketed as a bipartisan cause, it's increasingly apparent that the better Democrats do at...
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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Is the UFT Delegate Assembly a Relevant Space for MORE and Other Opposition?

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There is no organized push back against Unity Caucus at the UFT Delegate Assembly and hasn't been for years. If you read Mike Schirtzer&...
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Sunday, November 12, 2017

Mike Schirtzer on How Unity Caucus Votes

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Mike, with over a dozen years in the system, ruminates on his experiences with the Unity Caucus machine. He is over 30 years younger than me...
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Friday, November 10, 2017

Using Test Scores Leads to Lower Teacher-Evaluation - Ed Week

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NYC requires more points to be rated proficient than other districts: teachers in Fairfax County, Va., and Philadelphia needed to earn 50...
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School Scope: Sports, Elections and Education - Norm in The Wave

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School Scope:   Sports, Elections and Education By Norm Scott Election Day I went into the booth intending to vote for de Blasio...

South Bronx Asks a Few Questions of the UFT Leadership

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Peter Zucker wants to know why the UFT won't put as serious an effort into fighting for the membership as it did on Proposition 1. ...
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Thursday, November 9, 2017

Another View in The UFT - Our New DA Newsletter

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If APPR Is So Great, Why Do People Want Out? By Arthur Goldstein , CL Francis Lewis HS, What We Do at t...
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Emily James Took Action on Paid Parental Leave and Shook the Tree

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After New York City teachers push for paid family leave, union takes up the fight... Chalkbeat Who cannot love what Emily James has accomp...

Memo From the RTC: Rockaway Café Rocks – Three Down, Seven to Go

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--> Memo from the RTC:  Rockaway Café Rocks – Three Down, Seven to Go By Norm Scott The theme for the Rockaway Theatre...
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Ángel González - 20 Federation of Teachers of Puerto Rico - FMPR arrested for civil disobediance

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From our old pal Angel who resides in Puerto Rico. Angel Gonzalez shared Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico 's live video to th...
Monday, November 6, 2017

UFT Brags About "Success" at Tottenville HS While Principal Joseph Scarmato Runs Amuck

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Is the UFT going through the motions telling members to file grievances while the abuse from the principal just continues?.. James Eterno, ...
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Sunday, November 5, 2017

Is the Democratic Party in its Death Throes?

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The New Yorker ...even if the fight is in part an exercise in after-the-fact finger-pointing, the campaign’s internal struggles over how to...
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My Uncle, the Bolshevik - Purged in 1937?

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On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the anti-communism will be running rampant to degrade one of the crucial events in the 2...
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Saturday, November 4, 2017

Will (Clueless) Dems Win Virginia - Daily Howler

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The fact that it's close is a sign of the zombified state of the liberal world.  ---- They think they are “woke.” They are, in fact, in...
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School Scope: Elections are Coming, Elections are Coming - Norm in The WAVE

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Published Nov. 3, 2017 www.rockawave.com School Scope:   Elections are Coming, Elections are Coming By Norm Scott I declined the ...
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Friday, November 3, 2017

MORE Urging "Stay Union" Campaign - Are There Alternatives?

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Roseanne McCosh left a  comment on my Oct. 20 post " ATRs to UFT - It is About Dignity, Don't Tell Us We Should Be Happy to Hav...
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