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Sunday, May 13, 2018

Schneiderman Resigned While Queens Principal Reassigned After Sexual Harassment Lawsuits Totaling $600,000

Mr. Kwait is “one of those guys who I can’t figure why it took so long to remove from his position,” Mr. Tand said. “They seemed to look t...

Thursday, May 10, 2018

How One Person Action Can Make a Major Difference - Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia

One day will we see a similar figure come out of the woodwork in the UFT to topple the Unity machine? How about a walk from UFT borough off...

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

Did Marx Get it Right? The View From China - NY Times

While Mr. Xi has tried to woo foreign investors, he has also tried carve a distinctive ideology — part old-school Communist values, part ea...

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Teachers and Parents of Puerto Rico Launch Historic Strike & Boycott Against Standardized Testing

Mercedes Martinez and the FMPR teacher union's resistance to privatization is the subject of this Jesse Hagopian piece. Ed Notes and ICE...

Monday, May 7, 2018

Norm in The WAVE: School Scope - Teachers REVOLT and MEMO From the RTC

Both articles appeared in May 4, 2018 edition of The WAVE School Scope: Teachers REVOLT By Norm Scott We ret...

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Can Weak Unions Get Teachers More Money? - NY Times

In West Virginia, by contrast, the weakness of the unions left workers no choice but to take the lead. And the unions were in no position...

Saturday, May 5, 2018

How "choice" relates to segregation in NYC schools

This issue came up when I spoke to a literacy social justice class at Leon Goldstein HS the other day ( Where I go back into the classroom)...

Thursday, May 3, 2018

On Sectarianism One of the Deadly Sins of the Left

Sectarianism: There are many fringe groups on the left that will never be anything more than tiny sects. They are “ sectarian” because t...

Video: PEP April 25, 2018 - Port Richmond HS Protest Principal

https://vimeo.com/267774737

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Randi Deletes Tweets That Praised Arizona Republican Governor Ducey's School Funding Plan

Thanks to Jeff Kaufman for this nugget. I imagine this is coming from a report attempting to embarrass Randi by the Ducey supporters but...

Video and Commentary: PEP April 25, 2018 Students Protest Closing Their School, PEP closes it anyway

Students at Crotona Academy: If you close our school we will drop out. PEP closed the school anyway. The April 25 PEP was another doozy -...

Where I go back into the classroom - for one hour

Yesterday I spoke to a high school class at Leon Goldstein HS about the movie - The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman - we ...

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Addendum: Independent Teacher Revolts Against AFT and NEA

I posted this Antonucci piece yesterday: Antonucci - Oklahoma Teachers Want to Impeach NEA Union Officer and Change to AFT - A WTF Moment ...

Monday, April 30, 2018

Antonucci - Oklahoma Teachers Want to Impeach NEA Union Officer and Change to AFT - A WTF Moment

Larry Cagle, one of the co-founders of Oklahoma Teachers United, issued an additional threat. He told KTUL in Tulsa that if his group ca...

Sunday, April 29, 2018

DSA (Democratic Socialists) Is At A Crossroads – Jeremy Gong – Medium

Our choice: we can maintain a tiny navel-gazing subculture, or build a vibrant mass movement for socialism. Let’s build a mass movement...

Saturday, April 28, 2018

The teachers' strikes prove it: the media is finally seeing America's new labor landscape | US news | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/ us-news/ 2018/apr/28 /us- teachers-strikes-workers- labor-unions?utm_source=esp& utm_medium=Email&utm_c...

What a Union Is: Matewan Union Speech

We had a good discussion at the ICEUFT meeting yesterday of what a union is and how it has to talk to all members, not a slice of the member...

Friday, April 27, 2018

Exploring Caucus Fault Lines: ICEUFT Meets Friday, MORE Meets Saturday

Friday, April 27, 8 AM I came back from a 4 hour MORE contract committee meeting last night where a few of us (a very few of us) have been...

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