tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post5655022735012272052..comments2024-03-28T08:55:53.818-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: Is Randi Weingarten REALLY Getting The Message?reality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-84168978866048372612014-07-11T18:51:51.746-04:002014-07-11T18:51:51.746-04:00Unity caucus cronies enjoying booze, grub and lodg...Unity caucus cronies enjoying booze, grub and lodging on our unions dues dime.reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-15155820674326641152014-07-11T18:51:00.399-04:002014-07-11T18:51:00.399-04:00Let's not forget her jetting into Baltimore wh...Let's not forget her jetting into Baltimore when the local voted down a merit pay contract she had helped devise.<br /><br />Or the deal she made with Chris Cerf over the Teacher Data Reports in NYC and how they would never end up in the papers.<br /><br />Or the sell-outs in the '05 contract that created the ATR mess.<br /><br />Or the failure to put down an ideological alternative to the Bloomberg DOE's closure policies.reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-32890425009831862762014-07-11T18:48:32.421-04:002014-07-11T18:48:32.421-04:00I've turned into you, Norm - "Don't l...I've turned into you, Norm - "Don't listen to what they say, watch what they do..."<br /><br />What I saw Randi do on Monday was stand with Duncan.reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-29057794971909479902014-07-11T18:47:40.245-04:002014-07-11T18:47:40.245-04:00Agreed. This is a dog-and-pony show made to fool r...Agreed. This is a dog-and-pony show made to fool rank-and-file that they're caving on their CCSS support. They're not - there's too much money for Randi and the people around her to be made on it for the AFT to walk it back now.reality-based educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-39268675064497129422014-07-11T15:57:15.038-04:002014-07-11T15:57:15.038-04:00For some background information on Ms. Weingarten...For some background information on Ms. Weingarten, copied from Randi Weingarten on Wiki:<br /><br />Plagiarized speech<br />A speech that Weingarten gave in 2011 turned out to have been plagiarized from a NY 1 series on a flawed Board of Education computer system.[85] “When a journalist, politician or student uses someone else's words without attribution in a speech or a paper, it's called plagiarism – and it's often enough to get a journalist fired, a politician embarrassed or a student kicked out of school,” commented NY1.[86]<br /><br />WTU conflict<br />In 2010, the AFT and Weingarten specifically were charged with interfering in the local elections of the Washington Teachers Union (WTU). The elections had been scheduled for May but postponed because of a dispute over procedural questions. In August of that year, Weingarten imposed a deadline on WTU President George Parker to comply with an order "to hold a mid-September election for new officers and delegates, or the contest will be taken out of his hands and conducted by the national parent organization." Parker objected that Weingarten had no authority to interfere in this manner.[87] Weingarten ultimately took over the election.[88]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-66085558282737985512014-07-11T14:16:30.991-04:002014-07-11T14:16:30.991-04:00And who is footing the bill for the retired Unity ...And who is footing the bill for the retired Unity official to attend the convention?<br />Norm, would you ask him who paid his way? Bet I can guess who it is. Oh, is his wife there too?<br />So cozy that Unity caucus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-66330028168858695082014-07-11T12:37:32.858-04:002014-07-11T12:37:32.858-04:00Boy are u right - Stephanie got this one wrong. I ...Boy are u right - Stephanie got this one wrong. I am at the press table in front of the AFT right now as it opens. Last night Randi's Progressive Caucus - natl version of Unity without the loyalty oath - voted down the Chicago anti-common core reso -- today Chicago and Unity will continue to fight it out in the closed committee room - but we'll be outside getting reports of the battle - Unity will use very tactic to keep the Chicago reso from coming to the floor. Anything militant you hear coming from the Randi wing is pure rhetoric. Yesteday a retired Unity former official asked me if I thought the leadership would match NEA on the Duncan issue and laughed. Even some of them are cynical.ed notes onlinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-27264770630445198542014-07-11T11:44:44.761-04:002014-07-11T11:44:44.761-04:00Randi will only get " the message" when ...Randi will only get " the message" when she is booted out, if ever. Randi s ethically challenged.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com