The Solidarity Council has voted to launch a petition calling for the resignation of Chancellor Richard Carranza.
I have two questions:
- Has anyone at the DOE or UFT been held accountable for the death of 75 school employees as well as 12 School Safety Agents that occurred in the spring from COVID-19? Protocols were not adhered to and schools stayed open too long. The UFT never attempted to pull members out of buildings they knew were infected. Some of the same DOE and UFT people are doing the planning and advising on how to send students and staff back to school buildings in September.
- Can anyone have any real confidence in the Chancellor's ability to run the system safely after what happened in the spring? I know of no school system in the country that suffered losses like NYC. UFT Solidarity is calling for real accountability.
The petition:
UFT Solidarity is the premier and main opposition caucus of the UFT. UFT Solidarity came in second place in the 2019 UFT Elections.
PETITION FOR THE REMOVAL OF RICHARD CARRANZA AS CHANCELLOR OF NEW YORK CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The one million school children, their families, and the hundreds of thousands of faculty and staff of NYC Public Schools, deserve competent and trustworthy leadership, more so than ever in these increasingly difficult and uncertain times of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Mayor and the Chancellor have consistently failed to provide that leadership and instead, continue to create confusion and chaos despite the urging of government representatives, multiple parent and community groups, the teachers union, and other advocates for public education, to work towards a solution that puts the health and safely of our most vulnerable citizens, our children, above and beyond any political pressure to “reopen” and ultimately putting ALL at risk for exposure to COVID-19.
We are teachers and parents and have read your plan. We still do not feel safe. We should not return to school unless there has been a minimum of 14 days without new cases. Given the fact that schools have had their budgets slashed, we know this will greatly impact their ability to have adequate custodial personnel needed to clean schools during the day and at night. We do not believe that Chancellor Caranza understands this reality.
THEREFORE we, the undersigned are calling for the immediate resignation and removal of New York City Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza, and the creation of a non-partisan, multi-level task force to help assist Mayor DeBlasio to achieve the level of competence critical to ensuring the health, safety, and future of the children and families we serve as NYC educators.
26 comments:
You all chose not to opt out. That was the way to hold them accountable, at least for a year. Good luck trying to get them to do something now.
UFT agreed to instruction during lunch? While kids have masks down and are eating? You agreed to 30 minute preps?
UFT, you’re supposed to protect teachers. What are you doing? Where is Mulgrew on this?
UFT is caving on unsafe conditions.
Spring break compensation?
Why am I being ignored on open market?
Why do people pay dues?
James, how would you suggest we hold them accountable when there is no way to do so?
Try getting off your ass and standing up for yourself and all the rest of us.
At least this group is doing something.
Let me understand. You are surprised? Now getting upset, after the opt out passed, like you expected some type of service. Remember the scabs who warned you? Enjoy wasting the $1600 you pay for nothing, plus the triple dues on October 15.
James, honestly, you and all these other people are suckers. After march 17-19 and the last 20 years, you are either stupid or easy to fool.
Rethink what you wrote below and give us words of wisdom about what we should do now.
I have two questions:
Has anyone at the DOE or UFT been held accountable for the death of 75 school employees as well as 12 School Safety Agents that occurred in the spring from COVID-19? Protocols were not adhered to and schools stayed open too long. The UFT never attempted to pull members out of buildings they knew were infected. Some of the same DOE and UFT people are doing the planning and advising on how to send students and staff back to school buildings in September.
Can anyone have any real confidence in the Chancellor's ability to run the system safely after what happened in the spring? I know of no school system in the country that suffered losses like NYC. UFT Solidarity is calling for real accountability.
Sad to report but none of this will matter in two weeks when about 12 states will be reporting school-inflicted deaths and shutting back down right quick. That said, UFT should be leaders in this, not followers; and they’re already well short of Chicago and LA unions.
Maybe if Janella and Amy, who make about $400K a year together would stop retweeting and promoting BLM and MSNBC they could get off their asses and do something.
Think for yourselves, your lives and for your family.
I did not go in during those three days in March..... (My life is more important.)
I did not report on my religious holiday of Good Friday.....(The most solemn day for my religion.)
The DOE, UFT and the mayor cannot take away my beliefs and my life.
Think for yourselves people.
In listening to the House Subcommittee, Mr. Luetkemeyer highlighted society's ills in the context of schools and the importance of having schools open. Mr. Luetkemeyer indicated how child abuse has not been getting reported because a lot of it is reported by schools and hospital emergency admissions have increased. Dr. Redfield mentioned the increase of
suicide and overdose among youth.
I would sign it, but it’s directed incompletely and in my opinion incorrectly. Carranza is just deBlasio’s puppet - he’s in a basically meaningless position and makes no decisions on his own. DeBlasio needs to go, as does Mulgrew. They all allowed staff to go into schools, that were deemed too unsafe for students, on 3/17, 3/18 and 3/19. And they’ll do it again.
De Blasio just lowered the standard for opening schools from 5% to 3% infection rate.
Those who want schools to open up (and mask when social distancing is not possible) are not going to like this.
Sign the petition, spread it and get in touch with a group that is fighting for you. Or start your own and cut out the middleman.
I am so grateful that someone like Rosa Parks, who faced much greater odds, didn't think like the defeatests here. You have collective power. Use it.
Stop reading this blog if you think those of us who want to fight back are stupid.
FDNY gets a 12% pay increase if involved in HAZMAT. NYPD also gets hazmat pay. Combat vets get more $ than non-combat. Yet you want us teachers to voluntarily test & RISK our HEALTH while you cut back on funding 4 education, & don't offer anything to us.
A few months ago, we were lauded for the incredible job we did. Now you throw us like lambs to the slaughter. #pathetic #notacceptable #nycdoe #backtoschool, and of course RADIO SILENCE from @UFT. None of this motivates me to continue to go above and beyond. NONE OF THIS.
Which union would you prefer? Why do cops get a $12k bonus a year for life? Why can they retire with no penalty so much earlier than us? The uft never thought to renegotiate these things?
Because either you never fought back or because your fighting was impotent. Look at the 2014 contract and look at us now.
Remember when randi filled MSG with all the uft members demanding a contract? We got the worst or 2nd worst contract in history out of that. But now you want me to sign a petition?
No, i think you are stupid because after all the warnings and obvious results upcoming, you didnt opt out. Now you get screwed again. What a surprise. Maybe next June.
We are fighting one of the most organized political machines in the country in the UFT. It never was easy but it is worth the effort.
Wait. Did you just say that we, the teachers, are fighting against the uft, yet we are paying them dues? Think about that for a second.
I can vote for one of the Solidarity or MORE teachers for CL. Opt outers are guaranteed a Unity hack. Yeah that'll help. Not.
Cut it out 4:32. We're fighting the actions of the UFT leadership, not the idea of the union that we need and support. Opt out is over for 2020. Almost nobody opted out. Let's move on.
I agree with James the problem is the present UFT leadership not the union. Unions play a vital role. Mulgrew is probably getting paid by the DOE and/or corporations to ruin it so that Teachers are left vulnerable. What we need to do is vote him and his cronies out.
Well everyone. Now we all know that Unity needs to go. If they are not willing to advocate for our lives and take a strong stand, there is not other proof.
If I am told I need to step into a school building under these conditions, they need to go.
I agree Bronx ATR bu we take what we can get. As someone very close to me says, deBlasio, Mulgrew and Carranza are the 3 Stooges of the school system. Problem is nobody's laughing now at their pathetic farce.
Vote UNITY out. Let all that hold these positions inside the UFT offices have to go back to schools on a full-time basis.
Results are needed. Our lives are at stake. This is not bullshit. This is serious.
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