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Friday, September 26, 2014

The Secret to Eva Moskowitz’s ‘Success’

Another curious fact about Success Academy is the attrition of both students and teachers. For schools that are widely acclaimed, this is ...

NYC Teacher Steve Ryan's Play - A Beautiful Mourning - At Manhattan Rep Theatre Oct. 16, 17

The boy can act, sing dance - and now we learn Steve Ryan, a teacher at Leon Goldstein HS in Brooklyn, a colleague and pal of Kit Wainer and...

Updated: Kathleen Elvin and AP Emily Creveling Use Terror Tactics to Intimidate

Corrected and Updated These comments on our earlier post ( John Dewey Principal Kathleen Elvin Discontinues Iraq War Vet and Mother) provid...

Thursday, September 25, 2014

John Dewey Principal Kathleen Elvin Discontinues Iraq War Vet and Mother

“We’re sorry you won’t have health insurance for your child and thank you for serving your country. You’re fired!” • Single Mother • Ir...

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Roots of the UFT: Max Shachtman, Al Shanker Mentor

Vera Pavone and I wrote a review of the Shanker bio in New Politics: Albert Shanker : Ruthless Neo-Con | New Politics which delved into the...

Where Are the People of Color in the Movement?

....there aren't enough people of color in this picture ... Jersey Jazzman raised this issue on his blog after a meeting of Jersey blog...

Teachers and Police

After the roiling of the waters between the PBA and the UFT I've started writing a series of articles for my column in The Wave on teach...

Monday, September 22, 2014

Comment from Roseanne McCosh a rank and file MORE and long-time Ed Notes supporter

A caucus that hopes to break free of Unity's control of our union will never get the support it needs from members when distractions ...

I Didn't March Anymore on Climate But Did Pick up and Plant a Fig Tree

I really was going to go to the climate march even though I wrote- Another March and Why I Ain't Marchin' Anymore - U... I did inc...

Disillusioned Parent Pulled Daughter from Girls Prep Charter - another hedge funded scam

.....because of their personal guilt over what minorities must endure in order to make it in life in their twisted, unfair system, they t...

Success Academy Charter School Teachers Overwhelmingly White - Higher % Than NYCDOE Schools

59% of NYC DOE teachers are white. Check out the astounding numbers of white teachers in the Success Charter school chain obtained by the Te...

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Secession Fever: Scotland, Catalonia, MORE and (Hopefully) Most of the American South

When 45% of the people vote to secede as they did in Scotland, that is one heavy minority for Britain to bear. Note the push for independenc...

Friday, September 19, 2014

Girls Prep Charter Takes Kids Not Picked Up on Time to Local Precinct, Threatens Parents with Administration of Childrens Services

Girls Prep can order these for Pre-k Girls Prep has figured out a way to start the school to prison pipeline in pre-k. Children first in...

On Democratic Centralism (Loyalty Oaths?) - From Trotsky to Shanker and Others

(Albert Shanker mentor) Max Shachtman ( / ˈ ʃ ɑː k t m ən / ; September 10, 1904 – November 4, 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. He...

Thursday, September 18, 2014

UFT Caucuses and Loyalty Oaths - How About a UFT Cut-the-Strings, Free-the-Puppets Caucus?

Arthur Goldstein has another assault on Unity Caucus at NYC Educator ( How About a UFT Cut-the-Strings, Free-the-Puppets Caucus?) Arthur is...

PS 147 Mini-Reunion

Schools are wonderful places to work when you work with wonderful people. We had our differences but always had good times with each other -...

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

An ICEer Comments on the Sharpton March

Judging an organization's commitment to social justice on the basis of how they stand on a demo called by one of the most dishonest p...

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