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Thursday, June 3, 2010

Next Year - Salary Step/Longevity Freezes

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Reading this NY Times article about the mayor's move to "cancel" teacher raises, I was struck by two things: First, the union...
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

How Come The New Teacher Project Got A $5 Million Raise While Teachers Get Zilch?

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Details for that scam here. And how come the City Council staff got raises , and the mayor's staff got raises , and the DOE got to hire ...
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Doing To Education What He Has Done To The Gulf Of Mexico

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It's clear as hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil spew from the Gulf of Mexico every day, polluting the waters, killing the plant an...
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Monday, May 31, 2010

Obama's Oily Summer

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Day 41, America still held hostage by spewing oil, spreading environmental damage, a corrupt oil corporation and arrogant, incompetent gover...
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Sunday, May 30, 2010

What Motivates Us?

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In education these days, all the MBA's running policy think it is money (in the form of merit pay) and fear (in the form of school closu...
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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Top Kill

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It failed, of course: ROBERT, La. — BP has failed in its latest attempt to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico with mud and cement, the ...
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They Got Everything They Wanted

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Teacher evaluations are now tied to test scores. Teacher tenure is now a moot point since teachers can be declared "ineffective" a...
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Friday, May 28, 2010

It's Memorial Day Weekend...

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...I wonder how many hours of school the students at Mistress Eva's education sweatshops are putting in this weekend? I wonder how many ...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Cuomo: Unions Are The Enemy

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Andrew Cuomo chose his running mate - Rochester mayor Robert Duffy - because he is a "tough" guy who has taken on the unions. Acco...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Cuomo Is A Crook Too

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Before he met with the hedge funders to talk about charter schools, Andrew Cuomo was mum about his feelings about charters (so much so that...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

New Teacher Evaluation Passes Assembly

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A sad day for education - the assembly passed the piece of shit deal the unions made with the ed deformers running policy at the NYSED. 40% ...
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President Accountability Doesn't Much Like Being Held Accountable Himself

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President Obama is bristling at criticism from members of his own party and the press that he is not handling the mess in the gulf well. Th...

City Gets $5 Million To Hire New Teachers...

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...even as they get ready to lay off 6,400 teachers: The DOE asked the PEP to approve an allocation of $5,000,000 to recruit new teachers wh...
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Monday, May 24, 2010

Obama Tried To Bribe Sestak To Drop Out Of Race

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More change we can believe in? Actually no - it's the allegation that someone in the Obama administration broke the law trying to save O...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

If This Had Happened During The Bush Years...

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...the left would be screaming holy hell about oil drilling and the incompetence of the administration and the criminal charges that need to...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Obama Plans To Sell Off Public Housing To Developers And Banks

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Jesus, it just gets worse: The Obama Administration’s move to the right is about to give conservatives a victory they could not have anticip...
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Follow Bloomberg's Money

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A campaign cash scandal from the last mayoral coronation, er, election, continues to dog Mayor Moneybags. It's become such a problem tha...
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Friday, May 21, 2010

Obama Keeps Detainees In Perpetuity Without Charges - Just Like Bush

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More change we can believe in from President Accountability: WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that three men who had been d...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Whattya Know - Obama's Firing Somebody Who Isn't A Teacher!

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Must be cold in hell or something: ABC News has learned that President Obama will replace Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair. Hi...
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Heckuva Job, Obama!!!

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So how is President Accountability dealing with that oil spill in the gulf? Turns out not well at all: Tensions between the Obama administra...
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