Bernie's speech rips into privately run charter schools and their lack of union representation. He lashes out at growing segregation in charter schools and he supports a moratorium on federal funding going to new charter schools. He then calls for charter accountability. Sanders says he supports $60,000 a year minimum pay for public school teachers along with cost of living adjustments, tripling of Title I funding and more.
I know, I can already see the comments about how we can't afford any of this. I'd like to ask a question: Isn't it nice to be pandered to instead of villified? If 1/10 of what Sanders is proposing becomes reality, if he just takes on the charters, we will be in better shape than we have been in decades.
Are we going to see Bernie invited to speak at the first UFT Delegate Assembly in October? Don't bet on it. The reality is that on public education Bernie is way ahead of the other candidates. Read his education plan. If you are not willing to support him because he is too far to the left, demand other Democratic candidates endorse his education plan.
Meanwhile back here in Queens, there is absolutely no astonishment that it looks like Melinda Katz with the backing of the Democratic Party machine will win the recount over progressive Tiffany Caban in the Democratic primary for Queens District Attorney. For full disclosure here, I have nothing against Katz who in my Jamaica High School centric view of the world was very good to us but I like seeing the Queens machine, just like the Unity Caucus machine, dented.
From the Queens Chronicle:
Borough
President Melinda Katz will be the likely winner of the laborious hand recount
of ballots cast in the Queens district attorney’s race, a lawyer for her
opponent, insurgent Tiffany Cabán, said Thursday.
He predicted
the margin will be 50-60 votes when the tally is certified early next week by
the Board of Elections.
“This is a
step in the process that will now go to court,” said Jerry Goldfeder, the
election lawyer for the Cabán campaign.
As he spoke
to reporters, the final ballots of more than 91,000 votes cast last month in
the primary election were being tabulated, marking the end of a grueling,
three-week review.
The battle
is expected to move now to Queens County state Supreme Court on Aug. 6, where a
specially appointed judge from Brooklyn is expected to rule on the validity of
more than 200 disputed ballots.
Katz,
nevertheless, declared victory in the race shortly after the hand count
ended.
“Now
that every valid vote has been counted and recounted, the results confirm once
again that the people of Queens have chosen Melinda Katz as the Democratic
nominee for District Attorney,” said Andrew Kirtzman, a spokesman for Katz.
The recount
that began July 10 in a BOE storage facility in Middle Village ended just a
little after 11 a.m. when the last ballot — it was marked as a vote for Katz —
was recorded and returned to storage.
“I want to
emphasize that this race is not over,” Cabán told reporters outside the recount
facility.
“We are
going to continue to fight to make sure that every single vote is counted.
“There are
hundred of ballots cast by registered and eligible Queens Democrats that were
wrongly invalidated.
“Our
campaign will be in court to protect Queens voters from being disenfranchised.”
At issue
will be two sets of disputed ballots totalling around 200 votes, enough to sway
the final outcome.
The Cabán
campaign is asking the judge to validate 114 affidavit ballots that were never
opened by the BOE because the voters failed to fill out a line declaring their
party affiliation as Democrat.
Can't wait to see the UFT take credit for this one.
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Why would the UFT or AFT back anyone who would support us?
From Jacobin
When Warren says that the primary difference between Sanders and herself is that she’s a proponent of capitalism, it’s not just rhetoric. Her life’s work has been to make markets more competitive and equitable, not to redistribute money from the rich to the poor and remove big chunks of economic life from the private sector. (That’s one reason she was once a big proponent of charter schools, believing that they introduced much-needed competition.)
She's not our friend.
Explain again why we give a damn who is Queens
DA. It’s not as if 20 or 30% of our students are going to have some involvement in the criminal justice system
How about the gang assault in Washington, or the constant abuses of police in NY? Or the constant gang activity...Any common denominator? Any similarity to the failing school system?
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders today called for a national ban on right-to-work laws, and for every candidate running in 2020 to explicitly stand with unions in their organizing drives across the country. He also demanded American Airlines back off its push to slash airline workers benefits as it pays its CEO more than $19 million a year.
On unions, just like on education, he is way ahead of the others.
Lol socialist race hustlers flying from their mansions to gnd conferences. Sjws not even paying minimum wage then cutting staff when caught. TDS is a true mental illness. Hate is the foundation of leftist ideology. What suckers...
Could you comment on what is wrong with Bernie's education plan please? That is what the posting is on?
Stick to the topic y'all heard!
Now I, as a true social justice socialist following the Maoist model, firmly support the collectives common in all true progressive societies. To eliminate the vestiges of any meritocracy stemming from work ethics or pre-k instruction in the home, all children should be removed from their parents after birth. This way, they become servants of the State and see rightly the State as their family to which they owe their hard work and allegiance.
At least this is what I was taught as a k-12 student in NYC public schools.
Y'all feel me?
Queens DA result is a grand display of how it's not your vote that counts. It's who count the votes. The democratic machine in Queens has learned a great deal from the republicans. Russia didn't need to interfere in the voting process; overly ambitious and greedy politicians do a fine job all by themselves. The man in the street does not stand a chance in this alternate universe. How quickly can we get to Mars?
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