Friday, November 22, 2019

INDIANA TEACHERS CLOSE HALF THE SCHOOLS IN STATE TO RALLY WHILE IN NYC IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL AT UNITY BUT CLASS SIZE MATTERS KEEPS FIGHTING

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Indiana is no progressive liberal state. Even there we see the teachers in revolt. From the Indianapolis Star : Thousands of teachers and...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

PETITION TO IMPROVE TIER VI

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The Tier VI pension system is woefully inadequate for anyone hired since 2012. New Action/UFT has started a petition at Change.org to persua...
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Monday, November 18, 2019

PARENTS WRITE TO SUPERINTENDENT SUPPORTING TEACHER REMOVED FROM CLASSROOM

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A friend sent me a letter parents wrote to the District 10 Superintendent expressing their concerns about second grade teacher Walter Rendon...
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Sunday, November 17, 2019

AFT PRESIDENTIAL ENDORSEMENT PRESS RELEASE

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The following AFT press release came out on Friday. It is nice to see UTLA beat the AFT to the endorsement punch when they backed Bernie San...
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Friday, November 15, 2019

UNITED TEACHERS OF LOS ANGELES ENDORSES BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT

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Teacher union news from Los Angeles, California : LOS ANGELES — United Teachers Los Angeles, the second-largest teachers’ local in the cou...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019

LITTLE ROCK TEACHERS WAGE ONE DAY STRIKE OVER COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WHILE CHICAGO TEACHERS VOTE ON THEIR CONTRACT (Update Saturday: CTU Members Ratify Contract)

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Teacher strike fever across the USA shows no sign of letting up. Today, it spread to Little Rock, Arkansas . From the Associated Pres...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

YOU CAN FIGHT GRADE INFLATION/FRAUD BY USING THE UFT CONTRACT

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I have been attempting for a long time to get the UFT members who read this blog to step up to the plate to take action in defense of teache...
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Sunday, November 10, 2019

COUNCIL MEMBER HOLDEN WRITES TO U.S. ATTORNEYS SEEKING RACKETEERING INVESTIGATION AGAINST DOE

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The latest from Sue Edelman in the NY Post   informs the public that Council Member Robert Holden has taken the case against NYC DOE grade f...
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Saturday, November 09, 2019

ACT SCORES SHOW RECORD LOW COLLEGE READINESS RATE

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From the Washington Post : ACT scores for the high school Class of 2019 show that rates of college readiness in English and math have sunk ...
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Thursday, November 07, 2019

SOME REACTION TO THIS YEAR'S LOW NAEP SCORES

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I have read some responses to this year's release of National Assessment of Educational Progress scores. The NAEP is a national test giv...
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Tuesday, November 05, 2019

RANDI AND NYSUT ARE PRAISING CHICAGO STRIKE WHILE CTU MEMBERS DEBATE THE SETTLEMENT TERMS

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When Randi Weingarten sends an email to AFT activists saluting the gains the Chicago Teachers Union made from striking and NYSUT puts the st...
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Sunday, November 03, 2019

RETIREE LUMP SUM PAYMENT FOUR WEEKS LATE FOR ME

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This is from Gene Mann's The Organizer: Retiree Lump Sum Payments The Lump Sums for Retirees went out at 2 P.M. on October 25. R...
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Saturday, November 02, 2019

SUSPENSIONS DOWN IN NYC SCHOOLS

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This is from Chalkbeat : The total number of suspensions decreased 10.5% in the 2018-19 school year to 32,801, according to data released ...
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Thursday, October 31, 2019

CHICAGO TEACHERS HAVE TENTATIVE AGREEMENT AND A COMPROMISE TO MAKE UP 5 OF 11 LOST DAYS; NYC TRANSIT WORKERS PATIENCE IS RUNNING OUT AFTER GOING FIVE MONTHS WITHOUT A CONTRACT

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The news out of Chicago is that there is a Tentative Agreement on a contract but the Chicago Teachers Union wants the days lost to the strik...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2019

FINES FOR STRIKING ILLEGALLY WON'T BE IMPOSED ON DEDHAM TEACHERS, UPDATE FROM CHICAGO STRIKE; COMMENTARY ON BOTH COMPARING NYC TO BOTH PLACES

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This is from the Massachusetts Teachers Association's online news update on the Dedham illegal strike that was settled on Sunday. Whil...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2019

YOUR RIGHTS ON LETTERS IN THE FILE

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Gene Mann in the Organizer has a piece on our rights for letters in the file. We are printing it below in its entirety. Letter for file: ...
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Monday, October 28, 2019

DEDHAM MASS. TEACHERS HAVE CONTRACT SO END STRIKE; CHICAGO TEACHERS CONTINUE THEIR STRIKE

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From WCVB in Boston : DEDHAM, Mass. — Dedham teachers and school officials have agreed to a tentative deal to end the teacher strike that ...
Friday, October 25, 2019

TEACHERS IN DEDHAM MASSACHUSETTS WAGE "ILLEGAL" STRIKE TODAY

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Whenever I mention striking, I am told we can't in New York because government worker strikes are illegal in this state. Well, in Massac...
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