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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!
So after sitting through a meeting on Saturday where the Staten Island march for Eric Garner was raised to the level of the most important civil rights issue of our time - and you were basically supporting racism if you were not there - as about 7 million people weren't - including a few million black people and probably about 35,000 black NYC teachers - I will take this time to reiterate why I ain't marchin' anymore - though I never did much marchin' at any point. BECAUSE THEY DO LITTLE GOOD AND ARE BASICALLY FEEL GOOD EVENTS FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE FRUSTRATED.
And I am not frustrated - I just start building stuff in my garden or go to the gym - which I am about to do - when I feel frustrated.
Except for the left so-called vanguard political entities. They love marches and always try to get the mass organizations they work in to support any march they can. Why? Because they can get their troops out to sell their newspapers - since most people don't pay attention to these groups - marches are their chance to shine.
Well, there is another march this Saturday - for the climate. I actually think that the more people who march, the worse the climate will get from all that heavy breathing and stamping and speechifying.
But I might go just to hang with people I like - as long as I get a beer out of it at the end of the day.
Please forward this message widely!
Parents, Families, Teachers-- Join us for the People’s Climate March!
On September 21st, people will be marching in NYC and in cities around the world demanding that our leaders take action on climate change and stand up for future generations. Join us for this beautiful and historic moment.
I am not big on Jesus stuff - except maybe how his Bar Mitzvah went. But being part of the set-building team, a set designed by Director Frank Caiati, I saw the evolution and some early rehearsals and knew Frank's unique vision of GODSPELL would blow people away. And the boy has done it, including breaking the 4th wall, with the audience playing a role.
Here is a comment from someone in the show on Facebook.
Stop
whatever you are doing and go see GODSPELL at RTC right now. It is
everything. It is beyond. You will have your heart filled with joy and
then crushed to pieces in-between laughing so hard it hurts. EVERY.
SINGLE. performance was fantastic - Matthew Smilardi - you are wonderful, you broke my heart - PERFECTION!!! John Pud Panepinto you have out done yourself. Jacqueline Samaha you ARE Beauty. Chazmond J. Peacock as always captivating, Stephen J Ryan
your focus and energy are unmatched, the entire ensemble, the sets, the
lights, THE ORCHESTRA!!!! It could not have run smoother (Miss Nora Meyers) and finally Frank Caiati
- you are a gift. Your talent is infinite and we are all so lucky to
watch your vision come to light - no fog necessary. If I forgot
anything it's only because I am overwhelmed with the quality, energy and
heart of this production and everyone needs to go see this show -
RIGHT. NOW!!! GO SEE GODSPELL!!!!!!!
Directed By :Frank Caiati
Musical Direction By : Jeffrey Arzberger
Musical Arrangements By : Stephen Schwartz
Written By :John-Michael Tebelak
UPDATE from a source: I heard that the new organizers hired will in fact be PSA members. My
understanding is that all NYSUT staff, except for the Legislative
department (Pallotta's staff) is PSA. Incidentally PSA is taking a
freeze while the officers and the legislative staff are all getting 2%
raises.
We
find it deeply disturbing that a majority of the staff currently
employed by NYSUT in the legislative department are classified as
managers and are not allowed to join a union.....
This is coming from some upstate NYSUT people. Remember - Unity Caucus in NYC controls much of NYSUT in NYState which controls the national AFT. Until the Unity machine breaks here in NYC there can be no real changes at the state or national level. But there is some hope that with around 30% of the delegates in NY State Unity can be challenged if a statewide coalition based on Stronger Together. While it is not clear, this may be one more shot at the Unity controlled Revile NYSUT.
An Open Petition to the NYSUT Officers
ORGANIZE THE NYSUT LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT!
It
is our understanding that NYSUT is in the process of hiring nine new
full-time organizers and that these organizers will be housed in the
legislative department and their supervising officer will be Andrew Pallotta.
While
we fully support the emphasis on organizing and trust our officers to
make the right decisions about the number of organizers needed and how
many the NYSUT budget can sustain, we want to be sure that these
organizers will be part of the PSA bargaining unit.
We
find it deeply disturbing that a majority of the staff currently
employed by NYSUT in the legislative department are classified as
managers and are not allowed to join a union. In fact, there is a cruel
irony at play here when we are hiring organizers with the sole purpose
of growing the union while at the same time the department they will be
working in needs to be organized itself.
The logic that our legislative representatives should not be in a union is the same kind of thinking that the Bush administration subscribed to when they refused to allow employees of the thennewly formed homeland security department to join a union. It is the same kind of disingenuous logic that is nothing more than union busting.
As
one of the largest unions in the world, it sends the wrong message when
we have one department that is this top heavy with management. It is
equally alarming that this intentional structure of the department has
been created and sustained to forbid staff from being part of a union.
We understand that managers serve an essential role in every department
at NYSUT and we value that structure and in no way seek to change this.
The current situation in our legislative department, however, is
extreme and should be rectified so that as our organizers do the
critical work of organizing, they can do it knowing that NYSUT is not
only talking the talk, but walking the walk.
The undersigned, thereby, demand the following from the current NYSUT officers:
1.
Assurance that all nine newly hired organizers will not be classified as “Managers” and that once hired, they will be members of the PSA bargaining unit.
2.
A commitment that discussions will begin immediately on how to transition the existing legislative staff into the PSA bargaining unit also.
It is implausible to
assume that Success Academy accomplishes magic in the early grades and
then barely manages to hold ground in upper grades. In fact, this is
another piece of evidence suggesting that Success Academy amounts to
little more than an accounting trick....The New York Daily News published
an opinion piece written by what they termed “a researcher” and a
“graduate student” that used the veneer of data to argue that Success
Academy is a true success and miracle story.[1] Careful analysis reveals
that many of the claims are outrights lies and the rest are
half-truths. ... Ravitch blog
Ok. I could have used "hyperbole," as the much more genteel Ravitch does below. And how about that sucky puff piece in the NY Times mag last Sunday? Gag.
For your reading pleasure -- This bears cross-posting from Diane's blog. Let's hold so-called "journalists'" feet to the fire and call them out for what they are -- paid propagandists.
And how nice to see that people are picking up my idea that her charters were never about education, but about building a political machine - from the very beginning - since Eva began her first school so many years ago - I was putting this forth. Call me Claire - Voyent.
A data analyst who worked for the past several years in the New
York City Department of Education wrote the following about Eva
Moskowitz’s Success Academy charter chain. Most of the data he cites
comes from public records maintained by the city or state education
departments. His footnotes are at the bottom of the post.
Building a Charter Chain, and a Mayoral Campaign, on Lies
Over the past few days a deluge of, what for lack of a better word
can only be described as Success Academy propaganda material, has
appeared in the New York City media. The New York Daily News published
an opinion piece written by what they termed “a researcher” and a
“graduate student” that used the veneer of data to argue that Success
Academy is a true success and miracle story.[1] Careful analysis reveals
that many of the claims are outrights lies and the rest are
half-truths.
Let’s start digging in.
Claim #1: “Success Academy schools serve a similar share of special
needs students relative to their zoned counterparts.” This is a lie.
According to the latest public data on the New York City Department of
Education’s Progress Report website [2] the 4 Success Academy schools in
Harlem had a total of 2540 students enrolled. Of these students only 17
were special education students with the highest level of need. That’s
0.6% of their students. By contrast the average percent of special
education students with the highest level of need at community
elementary/middle schools throughout New York City was 9.4% and 14% in
Harlem. The average community school in NYC serves 1,500% MORE of the
highest need special education students than Success Academy.[3] Such a
vast disparity, in what to a significant extent are disabilities based
on neurological, medical and physical differences, can’t be explained by
anything other than Success Academy not serving the neediest students
in the community.[4] You might think it would be hard for the
researchers who penned the propaganda in the Daily News to top this lie.
They will manage to surprise you.
Claim #2: “the school is more successful in teaching students
English…27% of Success Academy students passed the ELL writing exam,
compared to 19% at nearby schools.” This is a lie. The school is not
successful at teaching English Language Learners. The “researchers”
somehow forgot to mention that Success Academy only serves ELLs who are
already amazingly good at English.
According to the New York State data
[5] over 90% of the ELL students at Success Academy are proficient or
advanced in kindergarten (that is before Success Academy would have had
much of an effect). Seems that Success Academy only serves English
Language Learners who already know English. There ARE data suggesting
that Success Academy IS very successful at kicking ELLs out (perhaps the
few intermediate level ELL students who manage to slip through the
lottery).[6]
Claim #3: “Success Academy students scored on average 39 points…
ahead of others from equivalent backgrounds.” This is a lie. It is only
by misrepresenting the “equivalent background” that they can make this
claim. As we have seen in the first two lies that were exposed above,
these “researchers” have not even come close to controlling for
“equivalent backgrounds.” They have not controlled for level of special
education need. They have not controlled for English Language Learner
performance levels. They have not controlled for parent characteristics.
They have not controlled for home environment. They have not controlled
for peer effects of creaming some of the most advantaged students in
each neighborhood.[7]
Claim #4: “the overall rate of attrition at Success Academy is far
from alarming.” This is a lie. The “researchers” make this claim by
comparing the yearly rate of attrition at Success Academy to that of
other, nearby community schools. But that is an absurd comparison to
make. After all, the data show that Success Academy is serving some of
the most economically, linguistically, and academically privileged
students in Harlem.[8] On top of that parents must actively choose to
enter a lottery to get into Success Academy and must put up with Ms.
Moskowitz’s hazing.[9] The fact that even after such a thorough
screening process every single year, year after year, another 10% of the
student body leaves IS rather disturbing.
Claim #5: They dismiss as a “side argument” the notion that “the
choice not to backfill drives up scores.” It is a moral imperative to
point out that only charter schools are given this “choice.” Public
schools serve all students, from all circumstances, at all times (even
when charter schools kick those very students out right after “census
day,” the day districts use to calculate enrollment for budget
purposes). It is disturbing that this difference seems to carry such
little weight with so-called education reformers. It can only make one
wonder how invested they really are in the success of each and every
student.
It is also disturbing that these researchers seem unable to use basic
logic and arithmetic. An Independent Budget Office report showed that
charters are more likely to lose the students who score poorly on the
New York State exams and who are more often absent.[10] Losing 30% of
the students who will test poorly before they enter the first testing
grade (i.e. 10% attrition each year through 3rd grade) can have a huge
effect on test outcomes. Since it is reasonable to assume that Success
Academy replaces those students with ones more likely to do well on the
exams, the whole Success Academy effect can be explained by
attrition.[11]
Let’s use the data from Harlem Success Academy 1 as an illustration.
This year’s 8th grade cohort, the one that started kindergarten in the
2006-07 school year, dropped from 83 students in kindergarten to 63
students in 3rd grade. This means that at least 25% of the cohort
disappeared even before the first exam.[12] As the disappearing students
are the ones least likely to do well on the exams that means that in
3rd grade these students can be expected to score proficient on the New
York State exams at a rate that would be about 25% higher than would be
expected based solely on other factors (such as the creaming and
self-selection noted above). This effect fully accounts for Success
Academy’s, now obviously banal, outcomes.
Claim #6: “growth data from 2013 suggests that in the upper grades,
on average, students maintain their high early achievement rather than
moving further ahead.” Now this one is interesting since the researchers
are more or less admitting that a Success Academy education amounts to
very little. If students are not growing more the more time they are
spending in these schools, what exactly is Success Academy
accomplishing? This little fact shows that the rest of their essay
amounts to little more than apologetics and lies. It is implausible to
assume that Success Academy accomplishes magic in the early grades and
then barely manages to hold ground in upper grades. In fact, this is
another piece of evidence suggesting that Success Academy amounts to
little more than an accounting trick.
However even this is a half-truth since the most recent (2012-13) New
York City Department of Education Progress Report data show that
Success Academy lagged well behind its “peer” schools in English exam
growth.[13] Success Academy scored in the 39th percentile on English
exam growth for their overall student population and in the 21st
percentile on English exam growth for the students who began with scores
in the lowest 1/3 of students citywide.
Claim #7: “The implication is that, through “drill and kill”
instructional techniques, Success Academy is teaching students only
low-level skills…The reality is much different.” Here the “researchers”
mislead in various ways. They state that “Success Academy students get
more science instruction than their peers.” It is unclear how they know
this since no evidence is cited. They forgot to mention that according
to a Success Academy teacher “We do not teach history or foreign
languages in elementary school.[14]” The teacher also revealed that
“Test prep starts in November.” A former teacher noted that the “Entire
school focused on remaining at top of network schools assessment wise.”
[15] From another interview, “All of the other grades, besides seventh
and eighth grade, have been doing test prep since…the beginning of
November. So that means they weren’t having English class, they were
just doing stupid passages by random authors of no literary basis,
quality, and just doing multiple choice questions for the past two
months or so. [16]”
The “researchers” also somehow forgot to mention that exactly zero
Success Academy students scored well enough on the Specialized High
School Admission Exam to be admitted to one the city’s top high
schools.[17] This forgotten piece of data supports the teachers’ claims
that a very narrow sort of test prep characterizes Success Academy
curriculum, as little of it appears to generalize to other exams.
Conclusion: Given all the other tricks in the Success Academy
playbook including suspension rates 2-3 times the district averages
[18], teacher attrition rates approaching 75% a year [19], the ability
to spend thousands of more dollars per student thanks to deep pocketed
ideological foes of public schools [20], the ability to grade its own
exams (public schools are legally prohibited from doing so), and lots
more instructional time, Success Academy must be considered an utter
failure.
And thanks to Michael Fiorillo for sending this heavy duty (and long) article, which I haven't finished reading yet but felt it important enough to put up ASAP. Send it to every teacher wearing those tee-shirts.
The killing of Michael Brown brought a great many things into focus — so many that it can be hard to keep track of them all. One important point was the dramatic contrast between elite treatment of police — routinely deferred to, even when they kill — and the routine scapegoating of teachers, who are demonized for all the ills that America’s elites have given up on. Of course, this has nothing to do with police officers and teachers themselves. It has everything to do with the roles they play — or can play — in either strengthening and defending the status quo, or in empowering possibilities of change.
Darren Wilson not only typifies how dangerous bad police can be in America, but also how heavily protected they are. Shortly after he was publicly identified, the Washington Post revealed that his first police job had been in Jennings, Missouri, a rare example of a police department shut down because it was so broken (primarily with regards to race relations) that the city council thought it was impossible to fix. But Wilson carried no stain of that with him.
Teachers, in contrast, have grown all too familiar with mass firings in recent years, as schools are routinely closed with little or no relationship to actual teacher competency or conduct. Indeed, President Obama and his secretary of education, Arne Duncan, have been enthusiastic supporters of this trend. In Chicago, where Duncan ran the school system before his Cabinet appointment, successive rounds of “school reform” firings have reduced the percentage of black teachers from about 40 percent to just under 30 percent, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed in late 2012. In New Orleans, more than 7,000 teachers were fired without due process after Hurricane Katrina, and won a civil lawsuit providing back pay earlier this year. Yet, in 2010, Duncan said, “The best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.” Both Duncan and President Obama strongly supported the Central Falls, Rhode Island, school board when it fired all its high school teachers without due process in February 2010. These are but the most high-profile examples of how mass-firing purportedly “bad teachers” without cause has become a routine part of “school reform.” In light of such examples, Chicago educator Paul Horton has argued that “The Attack on Teacher Tenure Is an Attack on the Black Middle Class,” despite the fact that the corporate-driven “education reform” movement has branded itself as “the civil rights struggle of our time.”
Who would you rather be: Newark or Chicago? Who has the better strategy: Joe Del Grosso, or Karen Lewis? ... Jersey Jazzman
I haven't been writing about the situation in Newark for some time. The students have taken action as reported by Bob Braun followed by comments by Jersey Jazzman. One political point here. Social justice unionism includes students in the equation. Some scoff. For those scoffers, check out which group is defending the schools in Newark - students or their union? A union leadership that worked with Randi to waffle and concede enormous ground to ed deform.
By the way - Brian Lehrer will have Cami Anderson on today - but he won't be having Bob Braun or Jersey Jazzman to counter her propaganda. I like Lehrer - except for the fact he shows bias in unbalanced reporting on ed deform. But that's heavily funded by ed deform NPR for you.
Students hold the line against efforts by mounted policeman to break throughNewark’s public schools will be saved from privatization only if supporters are willing to take risks. Yesterday, Newark finally saw some risk takers–the high school students and handful of adults who blocked Broad Street for eight hours, refusing in a very adult way to give up their lines despite an effort by police to plow through, and a mayor who risked criticism for not arresting the students.Continue reading →
Jersey Jazzman takes the Newark Teachers Union to task:
@BobBraunsLedger is Right About the Newark Teachers Union & One Newark - See more at: http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2014/09/bobbraunsledger-is-right-about-newark.html#sthash.MvLmArzs.dpuf
@BobBraunsLedger is Right About the Newark Teachers Union & One Newark - See more at: http://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/#sthash.vlsHKeiw.dpuf
@BobBraunsLedger is Right About the Newark Teachers Union & One Newark -
I won't question the motivations behind the NTU's strategy; I'll merely point out that they got it wrong. They should have fought this months ago. Now, the only opponents of "One Newark" left to carry on the fight are the students and the parents. I would ask every other teachers union in the state and in the nation to take this as a cautionary tale. Who would you rather be: Newark or Chicago? Who has the better strategy: Joe Del Grosso, or Karen Lewis? I ask this in a spirit of constructive criticism and respect for the leadership of NTU. Because sometimes your best friends are your most honest critics. -
So this is the core of MORE organizing this upcoming year -- forming local groups at the district level that will meet during the week after school. I view these meetings as more important than the MORE monthly meetings where too many people try to outdo each other in telling everyone how anti-racist they are. I go to the monthlies for the post-meeting happy hours.
- fight against infringements of members’ and/or students’ rights
- file grievances
- fight back against forced charter co-locations
You
will be able to consult with one of our experienced chapter leaders.
MORE can also help set up a meeting near your school. In the past, we
have organized one-to-one phone calls, local happy hours, lunch
meetings, study groups, and after-school diner meetings.
Contact MORE Local Educator Support in full confidentiality.
After 15 years I did something well enough, Anita Ruderman took my photo doing Camel. Actually, now that I look it is not really right, but I'll take it.
By this time I've already lost about 5 pounds. Don't worry, they were back a few hours later. I didn't go this morning which I should have since I have to shlep the new MORE newsletter to the UFT Chapter Leader meeting.
With a great cast, including many of your NYC teacher colleagues. Also a great set designed by Director (and NYC teacher) Frank Ciaiti. Below the graphic is my recent piece in The Wave which focused on the cast.
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Memo From the RTC: The Road to Godspell – The Cast I popped into a rehearsal of Godspell at the RTC – the set is magnificent but if I reveal details I’d have to kill you – and had a chance to talk to some of the cast, led by Matt Smilardi as Jesus and John Panepinto playing dual roles as John the Baptist and Judas. Well, actually, Matt and John were doing other things so I didn’t speak to them but I did to Renee Steadman, Jackie Samaha, Michelle Ricciardi and Stephen Ryan, all of whom are playing Jesus disciples. “When my friends ask me what the show is about, it’s the parable of Jesus before the crucifixion set to rock music. Right, that’s normal,” said Michelle, making her RTC debut. The show is “carefree and vampy”, said Renee, also an RTC first-timer. Jackie thinks the music is great and loves how everyone works together. Steve, who has never seen the show, which is based on book of Matthew, is excited at Gabrielle Mangano’s choreography. “Gabby is no joke,” he said, “there are pyramids, cheerleading stuff, jumping on and off sets during dancing. If you can’t do it – well, we’re expected to do it.” Director Frank Caiati has staged a very fast moving show. Each character get to do a solo that enhances the parable – with the support of the rest of the cast singing 4 or 5 part harmony. The songs provide the flow of show. And Frank is encouraging the actors to ad lib. “We have freedom and space to act,” said Steve. “So if I came to see show on a Friday – it might be a bit different the next day,” I asked? They all nodded their heads. I’ll try to catch up with the rest of the cast– Chazmond J. Peacock, Matt Leonen, Karen Mascolo and Nicole Mangano – in a follow-up interview in future columns. Godspell runs at the Rockaway Theatre Company Sept. 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27 at 8:00pm and Sept. 14, 21, 28 at 2:00pm. Tickets can be ordered by calling 718-374-6400 or by visiting www.rockawaytheatrecompany.org
Oh, the joy - for now. The hit jobs on Karen by the media will be be intense. But with Rahmbo being such an a-hole there is hope.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is losing the support of voters, according to a new Chicago Tribune poll. A poll of 800 registered voters found that the mayor’s approval rating has taken a dive. Two years ago it was 52 percent. That didn’t change much last year, but now it’s only at 35 percent. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has not announced that she’s running for mayor, but this poll shows she leads Emanuel, with 43 percent of the vote. Emanuel has 39 percent, but 14 percent are undecided. Another question asked if Emanuel relates to voters: 32 percent said he was in touch but 62 percent said he was out of touch.
Pre-eminent among Jewish values in his mind, he said, is the call to do justice...Reform Judaism, which is the largest denomination in American Judaism, has a long tradition of social justice and activism, but it can be a challenge to convince many liberal, modern Jews of the need to live out those values in a Jewish context.... NY Times: A Rabbi’s Departure Manifests a Challenge for Jews in America
An interesting article a few weeks ago on Rabbi Andy Bachman of Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope. Given some of the attacks on the concept of social justice, especially as related to unionism and the roles both the UFT leadership and MORE are playing, I thought it time to remind people of this tradition.
Some think Jews should only do SJ work for other Jews. I remember in my early years of activism in support of the Black and Latino communities in Williamsburg that were being shut out of power in education due to alliances between the Hasidic and Polish/Italian political forces I was hanging out with my Assistant Principal, the guidance counselor and an orthodox teacher who taught 6th grade across the hall from me. This guy had been my Hebrew school teacher when I was 10 and he was so mean and brutal to us I went home sick after every class. Finally I told my mother I would not go back to Hebrew school. And I didn't, prepping for my Bar Mitzvah with a private rabbi who lived across the street (who died a month before my Bar Mitzvah - I had an alibi.)
Whenever he talked Judaism to me I reminded him of his role in driving me out of religion. On this occasion, the 3 of them were ganging up on me for my activism in support of the Black and Latino community. "You should worry about your own people," they were telling me instead of the "shvartsas." They were, as were many of my colleagues, concerned - this was a few years after the '68 strike and wounds were still raw. My afro was growing out, as was my beard, so I looked the part and constituted a threat on the school and district level.
Not soon after, the Dist. Supt and the UFT District Rep paid a visit to my AP, suggesting he find a way to give me a U rating. He refused - and never became a principal. He always joked that in standing up for me his career was killed.
Now there was a mensh - he performed an act of social justice - for another Jew of course, but SJ just the same.
When a UFT official called the CSA (principals union) our "union
brothers and sisters" all I had to say is that justbecause the
concentration camp guards have a union doesn't make them my brothers.... John Elfrank-Dana, CL Bergraum HS
Well Ernie Logan in this article scapegoats our chapter for Bergtraum's problems. You can read my response in the comments.
I've maintained for 20 years that the UFT/Unity leadership owes more fealty to the CSA than to its members. If I were running the UFT I would say to Ernie Logan: Tell your scuzball bully principal element to cut the shit out or its all out war on them and your union. Thanks to John for this catch.
Directed By :Frank Caiati
