Sunday, July 31, 2011

Strategic Error Boxes-Out Class Size Reduction Complaint for Second Major UFT Legal Setback in Past Week

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In an apparent miscalculation in the choice of proper forum for which to seek a remedy the Appellate Division, First Department this week, ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Bargaining With the Devil: How UFT Attorney Miscalculation Led to the Recent Charter School Victory

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Riding high from their school closing victory in the Supreme and Appellate Courts last year the UFT and its co-plaintiffs started to see t...
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Good Summer Reading on Failure of Business Model in Education & Other News and Commentary

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My colleague Marc Epstein has written a piece showing how the business model has failed in public education but as usual there is no account...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

UFT Fiddles While Large Numbers of Probationers Are Denied Tenure

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Back in November 2010 Mayor Bloomberg and then Chancellor Klein announced "sweeping changes" to the tenure system in the New Yor...
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Monday, July 04, 2011

A Failing School? Not to These Students

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ON EDUCATION A Failing School? Not to These Students Librado Romero/The New York Times In February, the Bloomberg administration placed Jam...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

A DELEGATE ASSEMBLY THAT LEONID BREZHNEV WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD OF

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UFT President Michael Mulgrew took dictatorial control of the Delegate Assembly to new depths that one time Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev wo...
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CITY BUDGET BEING BALANCED ON THE BACKS OF UFT'S ATRS

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We have an agreement between the UFT and the city that eliminates the possibility of over 4,000 layoffs this year. We also gain increased h...
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Saturday, June 25, 2011

THE LAST MINUTE BUDGET AGREEMENT: IS IT GOOD OR BAD?

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It is very hard to comment on the UFT agreement with the City-DOE that was announced last night. It is certainly a very positive developmen...
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Monday, June 20, 2011

TWO TEACHERS STEP UP TO FIGHT DOE ON THEIR OWN

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We constantly hear people complain that they are paying over $48 a check in UFT dues and don't get proper services from the Union. Whil...
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Monday, May 30, 2011

GRADUATING STUDENTS SPEAK OUT

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The piece linked below by Anna Gustafson, an excellent education reporter, is from the Queens Chronicle. It needs to be read by everyone. A...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

PREMIERE OF INCONVENIENT TRUTH BEHIND WAITING FOR SUPERMAN

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Last Thursday I attended the premiere of the Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman along with around 700 other people in Harlem. ...
Friday, May 06, 2011

UFT Chapter at Aspirations HS Stops Charter School in Its Tracks

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A Joint Hearing scheduled for Thursday evening for the colocation of a new charter school for just released incarcerated students and other ...
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Friday, April 08, 2011

NEVER SAY DIE JAMAICA WILL RALLY AGAIN ON SUNDAY

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We refuse to quit. Thanks to the energy of Senator Tony Avella, Jamaica will be out there again rallying to show the world our school that ...
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Michael Fiorillo Warns Not to Celebrate Black's Departure; Leonie Haimson Gets it Right in the NY Times

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Hello All, This is not a good development. Every day that Black was Chancellor, she further undermined Bloomberg and revealed his contempt f...
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Sunday, April 03, 2011

MLK VIGIL MONDAY ON BAI

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I'm scheduled to be on with Mimi and Ken from the vigil on Monday between 7 and 8 pm. Hope to see some of you there or at least know yo...
Friday, April 01, 2011

Mayor Laguardia vs. Mayor Bloomberg, Unions and The Rest

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By David Pambianchi The Mark of Greatness - The Mark of Infamous Prelude: As New York City's Bloomberg Administration exposes itsel...