From Sue Edelman at the NY Post:
The Staten Island principal charged
with felony insurance fraud has been bounced from her job, The Post has
learned.
Oneatha Swinton, interim acting principal of Port
Richmond HS, was caught registering her luxury cars at the Pennsylvania home of
a city vendor she had hired — a
scheme first exposed by The Post in November.
“The decision to remove Ms. Swinton was made in the
best interest of the school community,” said city Department of Education
spokesman Doug Cohen.
Good news for sure but this principal was allowed to reign freely at a different school for seven years.
We salute the Port Richmond High School community for their determination.
Meanwhile, the battle over PS 25 continues. This is the top performing but under-enrolled school closed by former Chancellor Carmen Farina and the eight mayoral appointees on the Panel for Educational Policy that was saved by a lawsuit. Eva Moskowitz wants the space for one of her Success Academies.
From activist Leonie Haimson, Executive Director of Class Size Matters:
It's the end of the school year, but not the end of our battle to save PS 25, a great school in Brooklyn that the previous Chancellor tried to close.
Even though the court has placed a temporary restraining order against closing the school for at least another year, we would really like our new Chancellor to rescind the earlier decision to close PS 25 that was made before he came to NYC, and instead allow this great school with small classes and great results to grow. Please send a letter now to Chancellor Carranza and urge him to add a preK and a 3K class to the school for next year. He seems to be progressive, he says he understands that class size matters and that he really cares about kids; let him show this is true by saving this school from closure.
In other news, Eva Moskowitz is on a tear to convince the Chancellor to put a Success charter middle school into the building, by demanding that he call this an "emergency". We believe inserting her middle school in the PS 25 building would be illegal without any public process and so late in the year. See why here.
I entered the fray on the controversy over admissions at the NYC selective high schools with a piece in Gotham Gazette, highlighting some under-reported aspects of the issue; please take a look and let me know what you think.
Finally, thanks to Harry Lirtzman for commenting yesterday to quote from the Supreme Court blog that Janus should be decided today or tomorrow. Since we are the largest local in the country I believe, it would be a little ironic if the case is decided on the last day of school.
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After Trump's travel ban was upheld by the 5 arch conservatives, do you think unions have a chance?
Looks like Janus will be tomorrow. A little drama left.
Following the Court today. Glad they have decided that Korematsu was a bad decision (that was when the Supreme Court said interment of Japanese Americans in WWII was constitutional). Dissent refered to Korematsu in going against the Trump travel ban.
Justice Roberts: "The dissent’s reference to Korematsu, however, affords this Court the opportunity to make express what is already obvious: Korematsu was gravely wrong the day it was decided, has been overruled in the court of history, and—to be clear—“has no place in law under the Constitution.” 323 U. S., at 248 (Jackson, J., dissenting)."
It will take a miracle for Janus to come out on the union's side.
When it comes to admission to the specialized high schools, the lefties aren't concerned about equality of opportunity, what they really care about is equality of results.
The UFT's best/only hope in regard to Janus is that Gorsuch channels his predecessor Scalia - may he rest in peace - who shared the Union's concerns with "freeloading". Though, all I see is at best a limited 5-4 decision that gives the Union the right (as it gained in NY) to deny service to non-members. A shot in the dark would be that someone like Gorsuch sides with the liberal justices (as in Sessions v Dimaya) but as part of the opinion enshrines that we may be part of the Union but withhold the portion of the dues devoted to political speech. In other words, something like Weingarten rights but you would be allowed to stay in the Union.
If that happened, I would be 100% to stay in the Union. The UFT may even have a net gain from those like me who were very upset this spring over the leadership's endorsement of gun-grabbing and their previous use of Union money to send buses to Sharpton's cop-hating march post-Eric Garner.
I am outraged at the USSC.
Anyone should be able to come and stay in this country. It's just that certain people should be harassed at home, school, the gasoline station, a restaurant, etc. Is this really so hard to understand?
Waters/Hogg 2020!
DC37 just set pattern, 44 months, 7 percent
and 1.5 billion in healthcare givebacks.
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A great example of NYC`s "Brightest"
As counterintuitive as this may sound Janus is a good thing. It got us parental leave and may halt the UFT's pattern of givebacks. Without the fear of what Janus may do for the disaffected masses of teachers, the DC37 deal will be our deal and Mike will be saying, 'This is the best possible deal we can get or we go to the back of the line and they'll be no money left. Things could be much worse',
The NYCDOE is the only organization which hires black woman to higher level positions. In corporate world black woman are no where near the top in management positions but in the nycdoe black woman are all over the place as asst principals, principals and you can see that the sistas are not doing to well
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