Showing posts with label UFT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UFT. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Barring Indictment, De Blasio Looks Like He'll Get A Fairly Easy Run At Re-Election

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Two pieces of New York City mayoral race news today. First, as expected, Hakeem Jeffries declined to run against de Blasio: Rep. Hakeem...
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Sunday, May 1, 2016

Campaign Finance Investigation Focuses On UFT And NYSUT Donations In Buffalo

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Just up in the last hour at the Buffalo News: Erie County prosecutors are asking questions about campaign donations to a Buffalo-based S...
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Some Students Spent Between 6 And 13 And A 1/2 Hours On Testing Yesterday

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Yesterday three Regents exams were given - Global History, English and Geometry. All over the city, high school juniors who had previously...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Regents Exam Season Begins, But NYSUT Says The Scores Are Not In APPR (Even Though They Are!)

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You can see here the fun I had on twitter with an NYSUT hack over the APPR test score moratorium that isn't actually a moratorium since...
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Monday, January 25, 2016

Time For NYSUT To Take Real Steps To End The Endless Testing Regime

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This is cross-posted from New York Rank & File and it's in response to the propaganda NYSUT has been spewing forth about there bei...
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Sunday, January 24, 2016

NYSUT And The UFT, Allied Again With Cuomo, Spend Millions On Propaganda To Fool Their Members And The Public

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Had some fun on Twitter yesterday with a couple of union hacks, one the PR guy from NYSUT, that went something like this: @perdidostscho...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

Cuomo And Mulgrew: Professional Wrestling At Its Finest

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Anybody else enjoy the Mulgrew/Cuomo Show the way I do? It's the best professional wrestling exhibition you'll ever see. Back in...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Somebody Tell The UFT And NYSUT They're STILL Using Test Scores In Teacher Evaluations

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If you see the ads the unions are putting out, you'd think the test scores are gone from teacher evaluations. They're not, as Jame...
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Thursday, January 14, 2016

UFT Spends $1.4 Million On Pro-Cuomo Ad

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No, seriously: That ad - which they spent $1.4 million on, btw - functions as a pro-Cuomo ad, talking about the governor's Common...
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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Cuomo Sounds Like Mulgrew On Community Schools

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Tom Precious in the Buffalo News: In his speech Sunday, Cuomo also appeared to soften his rhetoric substantially from last year on the c...
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Monday, November 30, 2015

Will Randi/Mike Oust Another NYSUT President?

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In April 2014, former NYSUT President Richard Iannuzzi was ousted by AFT President Randi Weingarten and UFT President Michael Mulgrew in a ...
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Saturday, November 28, 2015

UFT Warns Over Friedrichs But Still Doesn't Get The Real Danger

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UFT President Michael Mulgrew on the Friedrichs case: The U.S. labor movement today faces perhaps the gravest threat to its existence si...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

AFT Invests Teachers Pension Fund In Cuomo's LaGuardia Airport Renovation Project

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Nick Reisman at State of Politics: The American Federation of Teachers is touting in a digital and print advertising campaign the pensio...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

UFT Claims "Overcrowded" Classrooms Are Down In NYC Schools - Is This True?

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From the State of Politics "Here and Now" update for the day: At 1 p.m., an annual UFT survey has found that for the first time...

Michael Mulgrew "Bitching" About Working Families Party Discussion Of Bernie Sanders Endorsement

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Ken Lovett at the Daily News: The head of the powerful city teachers union is trying to quell talk by some in the labor-backed Working F...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Families For Excellent Schools To Hold Charter School Teacher Rally

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Eliza Shapiro at Politico NY: Families for Excellent Schools, the charter school advocacy group, will hold a rally of charter teachers n...
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

NYCDOE Website Crashes As Payroll Reveals Retro Payments (UPDATED - 5:55 PM)

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My friend NYCDOEnuts: On the day NYC teachers finally learn how much $ they've waited SIX yrs for, the DOE schedules weekend maintena...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Weingarten, Mulgrew, Magee Met Personally With Cuomo In April

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Jimmy Vielkind at Politico NY: ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo met with Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Catholic archbishop of New York, several ...
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Monday, September 21, 2015

Quinnipiac Poll: Two Thirds Say Teacher Tenure, Pay Should NOT Be Based On Test Scores

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Politico NY on the Quinnipiac Poll released this morning: Voters also sided with unions on teacher pay and tenure, with 69 percent saying...
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UFT, NYSUT Leaders Meet With Cuomo Aide And State Educrats To Help Save APPR From A Well-Deserved Demise

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Ken Lovett in the Daily News: Cuomo’s recent efforts to improve relations with the Democratic party’s left wing seemingly includes the p...
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