Wednesday, May 27, 2020

MAYOR'S ADVISORY COUNCIL ON REOPENING SCHOOL BUILDINGS

This is from Patch. I haven't seen much coverage of this committee.

The 45-member Education Sector Advisory Council is made up of parents, higher education officials, charter and religious school representatives, nonprofit and union leaders, and more.

Education Sector Advisory Council members
1. Melissa Aase, University Settlement

2. Shirley Aldebol, 32 BJ SEIU

3. Andrea Anthony, Day Care Council

4. David C Banks, Eagle Academy

5. Richard Beattie, New Visions for Public Schools

6. Sian Beilock, Barnard College

7. Jack Bendheim, SAR Academy Riverdale

8. Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia University

9. Phoebe Boyer, Children's Aid Society

10. Marc Brackett, Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence/Developer, RULER

11. Richard Buery, Achievement First

12. Mark Cannizzaro, CSA

13. Natasha Capers, NYC Coalition for Educational Justice

14. Steven Choi, New York Immigration Coalition

15. Michael Coppotelli, Archdiocese of New York

16. Margaret Crotty, Partnership with Children

17. Traci Donnelly, Child Center of NY

18. Gregory Floyd, Local 237, School Safety Agents

19. Jane Foley Fried, NY State Association of Independent Schools

20. Kay Galarza, Student PEP Member

21. Henry Garrido, DC 37

22. Peter Gee, The Door

23. Barbara Glassman, Include NYC

24. Jasmine Gripper, Alliance for Quality Education

25. Anita Gundanna, Coalition for Asian American Children and Families

26. Andrew Hamilton, NYU

27. Kristin Kearns Jordan, Urban Assembly

28. Thomas Krever, Hetrick-Martin Institute

29. Vanessa Leung, PEP Member- Individualized Education Program

30. Stanley Litow, IBM Foundation

31. Joe Luft, Internationals Network for Public Schools

32. Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, CUNY Chancellor

33. Nequan Mclean, Education Council Consortium, (ECC)

34. Joan McMaster, Diocese of Brooklyn

35. Wes Moore, Robin Hood

36. Michael Mulgrew, UFT

37. Allison Palmer, ED, New Settlement College Access Center

38. Shael Polakow-Suransky, Bank Street College of Education

39. Susan Stamler, United Neighborhood Houses

40. Robert J Troeller, Local 891, Custodian Engineers

41. Javier H. Valdés, Make the Road

42. Dennis Walcott, Queens Public Library

43. Sheena Wright, President & CEO United Way NY

44. Michelle Yanche, Good Shepherds Services

45. Rabbi Dovid Zweibel, Agudath Israel

Of course there are no working teachers on this council.

Do you have any confidence that this group will get the reopening of the school buildings right?



27 comments:

Anonymous said...

No.

Anonymous said...

US with more than 100K confirmed virus deaths.

4% of the world’s population, 28% of global deaths.

Shelley said...

People, even some members named to the Mayor's AC, were apoplectic after Cuomo announced his AC, noting that not a single current NYC educator was named to the council.


There are 5 other Mayoral ACs, Mulgrew is on the Labor & Workers AC too, but this is not how you build trust and its not how you do any job, solve any problem, begin or restart any major operation. If you want trust and teamwork and quality, you need shop floor input, it's vial to quality.

Anonymous said...

James do you know today's date. It is very very close to June 1st. James do you remember you promised an article by this date on how to drop out of the UFT.
Hope you come through on your word!!

Anonymous said...

Of course I trust these people...

“The hypocrisy is just unbelievable." DOE official in charge of NYC admissions debate snubs his own unscreened Brooklyn district to send his son to a highly selective, largely white Manhattan school. Bombshell report by
@selimalgar
https://nypost.com/2020/05/28/doe-official-sent-own-child-to-top-screened-school/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons via
@nypmetro

Anonymous said...

as usual people with little to no teaching experience making up the rules for teachers.

James Eterno said...

Already addressed. Keep the UFT or start a new union. Those are the choices.

http://iceuftblog.blogspot.com/2020/05/national-right-wing-anti-union-people.

Anonymous said...

The opt out argument is a waste of space at this point. If you want to opt out, you know what to do. You know what you lose and don't lose. You know what the union has done or not done. Make your own decision. Some will agree to opt out, some will call you a scab.

The site is newchoiceny.com

James Eterno said...

To the guy who wants me to publish a comment on Minneapolis looting: How does that have anything remotely to do with this commission?

Anonymous said...

A right wing Koch funded site NCNY

Anonymous said...

Who cares about Koch? When people argue, with reasoning, why they want to opt out, and give dozens of reasons...If you can't either agree or at least understand, then there is no more discussion. if people want to, they can. I'm not sure what makes you want to pay, but that is your call. Unless you are part of unity...

Anonymous said...

Understand what you are supporting 8:29. It is righ wing anti-union astroturf groups that want to kill unions and public education. Not our friends.

Anonymous said...

Worse than Mulgrew for certain. That commission will do bad. Koch worse.

Anonymous said...

If one opts out it is not because of Koch, it is because of unity, mulgrew, and decades of failure.

Anonymous said...

You are supporting Koch and the people who want to destroy us. Mulgrew for all his flaws supports public education.

Anonymous said...

Dont worry, mulgrew is on the list. He cares. Koch doesnt. You will all be fine.

Anonymous said...

When i see mulgrew, koch, de blasio, carranza and bob linn...i cant figure out who is on my side.

steven said...

I can only speak for myself, I opted out for 1 reason, I waited 20 years for a transfer, still waiting by the way, gave the uft hundreds of pages of documentation, they wouldn't even file the grievance for a rule that is already in the contract. Still traveling over the bridge everyday. Trust me, Koch never crossed my mind. i just couldnt take it anymore.

Anonymous said...

Seriously these kids will be lucky to get jobs at Rite Aid. 1/4 valedictorians do not even hack it in city college.

This generation and the ones moving forward are going to be the laziest, dumbest fucks ever, most entitled, softest narcissistic, bunch of whiners you can imagine.

Teaching is not a profession you can recommend to anyone especially in DOE. Sewer rats have a better life than the pension and life of a tier VI, lucky for me closing on 20 yrs.

As a doe teacher, everything told to us as a youngster(work hard,pay attention, be respectful, give 110 percent) is not applicable to the doe.

This system punished those who work hard. I was(key word being was) one of those teachers for two years and it caused heartache and headaches to my mental and physical health. I was depressed and self medicating myself. Not a good combo.

So, I went to get some help by seeing a social worker who told me ‘you can only do what you can do. That’s it. You can’t turn chicken shit into chicken salad.’ Since then, I subscribed and still subscribe to that motto. This is only a job. It is not a career or a calling.

It’s a gorgeous day today. No kids handed in an assignment. So what? At 245, I am going to play golf. During lunch, I’ll eat outside. It’s nice eating in my backyard as opposed to some rat infested park in Brooklyn.

I agree with you on tier 6. It’s a life sentence. You could rob a bank and be out of jail before a tier 6 teacher gets a pension.

Be well!

Anonymous said...

Does not matter if it crossed your mind. You are helping Koch when you opt out.

Anonymous said...

10:41, We have read the same comment about your golf game ten times. Please try some original thought. Four

Anonymous said...

It is kind of like voting for Susan Collins. That is really a vote for Mitch McConnell. A vote to opt out is a vote for Koch and Eva. Bad move. At least Eva's not on this council.

Anonymous said...

There are more students than teachers here. Tells you what they think of us.

Anonymous said...

Well, i could say I have no other choice, but then you will all tell me to make it better, which obviously you cant do or you would've voted unity out 20 years ago or made the changes yourself, round and round we go.

Anonymous said...

Bottom line, if the uft president did his job, opt outs would never happen. You bending it in different directions doesnt change the job mulgrew has done.

Anonymous said...

As New York City emerges from the viral trauma of the last few months, one would imagine our Schools Chancellor Richard Carranaza would be hard at work figuring out how to revive the education system come September.

Instead, Carranza remains intent on making the good schools bad — and doing nothing to help the failing schools he pretends to care about.

Anonymous said...

James, here’s an interesting video:

The CDC Guidance on Reopening Schools, Explained

https://youtu.be/cS8lVLJRqfc