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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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Friday, February 1, 2019

Breaking - Contract Passes - OT/PT Voting Report - They Get 90 Minutes Off - Big Whoopie!

UPDATE from UFT: Final DOE-UFT contract ratified: Occupational and physical therapists, school nurses and supervisors of nurses and thera...

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

NY State Leg: ZERO for teachers

A rant from a friend about the UFT and its legislative friends and governor. This is the main part of the NYS legislative season.The UFT g...

LA Contract Updates - View from the left with Jeff Bryant and the right with Mike Antonucci

[LA teachers] tell you they want to curb charter school growth, not because it threatens their union, but because charters threaten the ve...

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

OT/PT contract vote with less than 48 hours notice, only one day of voting, and at only five locations citywide!

From a retired chapter leader Norm I thought you might be interested in seeing this text that just came my way via an in-service CL frien...

LA Teacher Strike Cools Embrace of Charters - NYT Plus Norm in The WAVE

I had just sent in my story for this week's WAVE when I picked up the NYT and saw this: Carrying protest signs, thousands of teacher...

Today: District 15 CEC to Vote on Pause for Charters

Jan. 29, 2019 For those not aware, each of the 32 local school districts in NYC have a school board - of sorts - calle...

Monday, January 28, 2019

School Scope: UFT Election Season Opens

School Scope: UFT Election Season Opens By Norm Scott The WAVE - published in print edition January 25, 2019 (originally submitted Jan....

Sunday, January 27, 2019

Weekend Update: A Birthday, a Wedding, Travel Fantasies and More Coming Today

I'm writing this Sunday morning at 6 AM - I've been up for a few hours after having fallen asleep at 9:30 last night. I've got a...

The Tyranny of the Majority - When More Democracy Isn’t More Democratic - NYT

Around the world, rising populists and angry electorates are putting pressure, sometimes deliberately, on what Mr. Levitsky called democr...

Friday, January 25, 2019

The Left in the USA and the UFT - Part 1

You will never understand the opposition in the UFT to Unity Caucus, or even Unity Caucus roots itself, without learning about the left and ...

Thursday, January 24, 2019

UFT OTs and PTs For A Fair Contract in Washington Post

We are not asking for the moon. We are only asking for the same contractual benefits and resources that our counterparts in the special...

UTLA Strike - First Reactions - Praise and Contrarian Views

Diane Ravitch's reports Los Angeles: Contract Approved by Union, by 81% Leonie's immediate reaction: Depending on the det...

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

AOC and the Left - She's Not Everyone's Darling

This is what we mean when we talk about the Democratic Party’s extraordinary capacity to co-opt progressives, social movements and radic...

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

UFT Elections: Why Mike (not Mulgrew) is Running With Unity

Mike Schirtzer explains his reasons for running with Unity Caucus at NYC Educator : Michael Schirtzer and Arthur Goldstein for UFT Executiv...

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