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Sunday, February 18, 2007

Sopranos-DOE Family Values

Pseudo-Intellectualism: http://dbellel.blogspot.com/

Saturday, February 17, 2007

When a Rose is Not a Rose

I've put up articles posted by Leonie Haimson related to Joel Rose's scams, Edison and Christopher Cerf on the Norm's Notes arc...

Friday, February 16, 2007

Teachers Battle To Keep Tilden Open - The Chief

Yesterday at a Manhattan Institute luncheon featuring Christopher Cerf, he said throwing money at educational problems should not be looked ...

Thursday, February 15, 2007

LA Lessons for Teacher Union Dissidents?

The excerpt s below are from an article in the LA Times about the dissident movement that took over the LA teachers union in the Feb. 2005...

SOS Tilden Rally - Feb. 6, 2007

Pictures from the rally. See commentary posted on this blog below in "Deconstructing the System, School by School" Check out htt...

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

UFT Election Notes - Feb. 14, 2007

Happy Valentines Day to all! UFT election petitions were turned in this past Monday. Getting this organized is quite a task and thanks to I...

Another ICE'er in the Times

One of the best things about being associated with ICE have been the phenomenal people I've had the chance to work with. It is no accide...

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Why We Need Independent Voices on the UFT Executive Board

Unity Caucus is not satisfied with holding over 90% of the seats on the Executive Board. High School teachers will get to decide whether the...

WANTED: NYC DEPT of EDUCATION

Posted on nyceducationnews listserve. Also check out: Jim Horn's Bloomberg's Corrupt Headmaster of School Privatization

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Class Size in California

I've posted a great post responding to critics of the class size reduction in California by Leonie Haimson on her listserve on another b...

Friday, February 9, 2007

Unity Hack of the Week: Frank Desantis

Unity Caucus Chapter Leader at McKee HS in Staten Island: For denying access to UFT mailboxes by ICE reps. They'll be baaaaack.

Cerf and Klein, Time to Resign

See today's Times article on the outrageous lies and misinformation by Cerf and Klein (sounds like a vaudeville act.) Even the picture ...

Deconstructing the System, School by School

by Norman Scott (Modified from The School Scope Column in The Wave, February 9, 2007.) A couple of years ago I spoke at one of Joel Klein’s ...

Wednesday, February 7, 2007

From: Cerf Chris

Note: Cerf will be holding a talent search, tap dancing included. Isn't amazing that they all need a chief of staff. Anyone been near a ...

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Doing Guidance at Bayard Rustin HS

Dear Randi: I know you're busy, but I wanted you to know that things are becoming intolerable at Bayard Rustin. Half of the Guidance sta...

Monday, February 5, 2007

U-Rating Hearing Notes from Lafayette HS

Ed Note: Our correspondent received a UFT transfer into Lafayette in the summer of 2005, one of the last UFT transfers before the onerous...

Sunday, February 4, 2007

Bloomberg Builds Stadiums, Not Schools

from Leonie Haimson listserve We have plenty of resources to do the job in NYC. We are not living in Afghanistan but in the richest city i...

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Rigorous Class Size Debate

A debate in the comment section over whether class size should have been a priority contract demand by the UFT in the last 2 contracts appea...

Did Washington go to Vegas before he crossed the Delaware while his troops were freezing at Valley Forge?

Randi Weingarten was at the AFT convention in Vegas for a week with her top aide Maureen Salter who is not an AFT delegate. Before she left,...

Thursday, February 1, 2007

In Praise of Elementary School Teachers

When I was in college in the early 60's we used to look down on the future elementary school teachers who were education majors and got ...

THE UNKINDEST CUT OF ALL

by Gary Babad, reprinted from nyceducationnews list January 31, 2007 (AP ): Flush with their success in saving $12,000,000 by cutting out ...

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