Saturday, April 27, 2013

Here's How Some Teachers In Mexico Responded To Education Reform

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From the Associated Press: ACAPULCO, Mexico -- Striking teachers in Mexico's Guerrero state attacked the offices of four political p...
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Bloomberg: We Have To Shred The Constitution In Order To Save Ourselves

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Our inevitable post-9/11 slide into an authoritarian state run by plutocrats continues: In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayo...
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Christine Quinn Hides Campaign Schedule To Keep Away Protesters

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Poor Christine Quinn - so many people follow her around to protest her policies that her campaign has to place an embargo on her schedule: ...
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Unity, New Action Lose Over 11,000 Votes From 2010 To 2013

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More caucus has the final vote tallies from the 2013 UFT election up and they're extraordinarily informative: CHART: VOTING SHIFTS F...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

Cuomo Backs King, NYSED On Buffalo

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Not a surprise: Gov. Andrew Cuomo is praising the State Education Department’s refusal to recognize a side deal between the Buffalo scho...

John King Declares Side Agreement In Buffalo Void

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Given that the whole rationale behind APPR is to fire as many teachers as possible, this is not a surprise: BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) ...
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UFT One Of The Only Unions To Allow Retirees To Vote In Union Elections

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Pretty good piece from Gotham Schools back in March on this.  If you missed it here is the link. It's clear if you are in the UFT le...
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UFT Election Lessons

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Norm at Ed Notes: MORE increased the vote over the ICE/TJC totals of 2010 in every single division and outpolled New Action in every div...
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Quinn Hammered Over Killing Vallone Scholarship

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I used to love the Vallone scholarship. Over the years, I taught a few students who were undocumented and couldn't get any financial a...
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Thursday, April 25, 2013

Mulgrew's Re-Election Victory Speech

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Sure his Unity caucus lost lots of support in high schools and middle schools.   Sure MORE garnered 40% of the votes in the high schools. ...
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UFT: Not A Union - A Benefits Collective For Retired Teachers

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Pissed Off Teacher in comments: Many UFT retirees have no idea what is going on. I mentioned MORE at a meeting and told them not to vot...
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UFT Elections - Unity And New Action Support Drops Significantly From 2010 In Middle Schools And High Schools

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James Eterno at Ice-UFT blog: We have initial slate only numbers for the high schools and the middle schools in the UFT election and alt...
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UFT: A Union Of Retirees

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Been busy most of the day, but did glance during my lunch at the ballot returns and read that the numbers of returned ballots from active me...
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Weiner: Forget The Texting Stuff, Tell Me About Schools

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That's how Anthony Weiner described how New Yorkers will react to his running for mayor despite the news that he had been sexting with ...

If You Needed Another Reason To NOT Support Bill Thompson For Mayor...

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...Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch just gave it to you: New York Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch, who helps set education polic...
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UFT Election Vote Count Today

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Norm at Ednotes writes that he will be an observer at the vote count today. The count is just a formality, since the UFT leadership has n...
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What Bloomberg's Billionaire Friends Should Spend Their Money On

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The propaganda-fest for "raising standards" is in high gear. I saw the latest example of that when I glimpsed a piece of Common ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

There Is No STEM Worker Shortage

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One of the memes you hear in education circles is that there is a terrible shortage of trained workers in STEM fields and we simply MUST gra...
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Anthony Weiner To Dominic Carter: Still May Run For Mayor, Even With Possibility Of Additional Twitter Photos

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You have to love this - disgraced former politician Anthony Weiner talking to disgraced former journalist Dominic Carter: Former Rep. Ant...

John Liu: Too Much Emphasis On High Stakes Testing in New York City Schools

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He penned this for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle: This week New York City students in grades 3 through 8, with their No. 2 Ticonderoga pencil...
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