Sunday, January 31, 2016

DETROIT AND CHICAGO TEACHER NEWS (Updated Monday with Rejection of Chicago Contract Offer)

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Detroit teachers have staged a series of rolling sickouts to bring local and national attention to the unhealthy, abysmal conditions in Det...
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Friday, January 29, 2016

REALITY BASED EDUCATOR SAYS GOODBYE TO BLOGGING WHILE ENDORSING MORE

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I'm very late to the dance today but felt it was necessary to comment on the final post from Perdido Street School .   Reality Based Edu...
Thursday, January 28, 2016

UFT ELECTION COMMITTEE EMAIL ADVISES NO DOE EMAIL FOR UFT ELECTION

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We are constantly asking members for non DOE email when it comes to union business including for the upcoming UFT election. The UFT Election...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

HERE'S WHY SCHOOLS WON'T BE CLOSED FOR WEATHER THIS YEAR IN NYC

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Having school open yesterday while the streets of Queens were in abysmal shape seems to shows a cruel and insensitive city administration fo...
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Sunday, January 24, 2016

NYSAPE TELLS US SUCCINCTLY HOW NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN TESTING IN NYS

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As I sit here and try to stall for time before heading out to shovel snow, I read this brilliant Tweet from New York State Allies for Public...
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Saturday, January 23, 2016

MAYOR'S 2017 BUDGET ANALYZED

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Mayor Bill de Blasio presented his 2017 executive city budget  on Thursday.  He announced that the city's financial picture is positive ...
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Thursday, January 21, 2016

NYSUT INTERPRETATION OF NEW STATE TEACHER EVALUATION REGULATIONS

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NYSUT has an updated fact sheet on Annual Professional Performance Review (teacher evaluation). The information on the fact sheet comes r...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

ST CAUCUS RELEASES NYSUT WHITE PAPER CRITICAL OF TESTING

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Our state Union (New York State United Teachers) has been burying their own report that shows student testing in New York State has serious ...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

STATE ED Q & A SHOWS STUDENT TEST RESULTS STILL COUNT IN TEACHER EVALUATIONS BUT NOBODY TOLD NYSUT

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In our last post , we criticized the UFT's latest Mulgrew reelection ad, paid for by member dues, for promoting anti-teacher Governor An...
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Friday, January 15, 2016

UFT PROMOTES CUOMO IN MULGREW REELECTION TV AD

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All those meetings between  Governor Andrew Cuomo and UFT President Michael Mulgrew have culminated in a $1.4 million ad that serves two pur...
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Thursday, January 14, 2016

JAMAICA HIGH SCHOOL ON NPR

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Jelani Cobb is a Jamaica High School graduate from the 1980s.  He wrote a fascinating piece on the demise of Jamaica High School for the New...
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Monday, January 11, 2016

SUPREME COURT AND U.S. ATTORNEY SEND US BAD NEWS

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The NY Times piece on the oral arguments held today in the Friedrichs vs California Teachers Association case has this headline: " Supr...
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Sunday, January 10, 2016

UFT NYSUT REPRESENTATIVE ASSEMBLY AGENDA CALLS FOR COPE PUSH

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I sat through a  UFT presentation  recently as a union official came to Middle College High School attempting to convince members to contrib...
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Saturday, January 09, 2016

FUTURE OF STATE TEACHERS UNION IS STRONGER TOGETHER CAUCUS

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The family came with me for the trip out to the Stronger Together Conference on Restoring Power to the Teacher out in Port Jefferson Station...
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Friday, January 08, 2016

UFT HAS THIN ALBANY LEGISLATIVE AGENDA

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On Wednesday, we reported on the January Delegate Assembly where UFT President Michael Mulgrew revealed our state legislative priorities fo...
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Wednesday, January 06, 2016

LIVE BOGGING FROM JANUARY DELEGATE ASSEMBLY (unedited)

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President's Report New state regulations.  Mulgrew says we have to negotiate on replacing growth scores in evaluations. State Ed Depart...
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RETIRED UNITY DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE TELLS STORY OF CLOSURE OF LARGE BRONX HIGH SCHOOLS

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There is a post at the JD2718 blog  written by Lynne Winderbaum that is must reading. Lynne is a retired UFT Bronx High School UFT District ...
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Monday, January 04, 2016

COME ONE COME ALL TO THE STRONGER TOGETHER CONFERENCE TO RESTORE POWER TO THE TEACHER

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It is very difficult to end vacation but every reader of this blog who is able to should put the date Saturday, January 9, 2016 aside fo...
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Sunday, January 03, 2016

UNSOLICITED ADVICE FOR MAYOR DE BLASIO AND OTHER CITY ELECTED OFFICIALS FOR THE NEW YEAR

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We are now two years into the administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio. Many are attempting to objectively look back and ahead as this is the ...
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Friday, January 01, 2016

SOME NYPD & PRE-K NEWS THAT CAUGHT MY EYE

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Many of us have been trying enjoy family time this week and are not paying close attention to what is going on in NYC. Here are a couple of ...
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