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Memo To President Obama. In New York City Its Not About Hiring Quality...
Today President Obama has finally decided that all school districts must have an "educator equity plan" by April 2015 that requires all States and school districts to place"quality teachers"in front of...
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How Bad Is Our Contract? Just Compare It To The DC37 Pact?
We all know that the UFT negotiated a bad contract with the City that included inadequate raises, a "caste system" for ATRs, and no retroactive pay for members who resign, are terminated, or die,...
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One Third Of New York City Public Schools Found To Be Overcrowded. Just...
An audit by the City Comptroller found that an astounding 33% of New York City public schools were overcrowded and that Tweed used "fuzzy math" and creative bookkeeping to falsely claim that these...
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The Illinois Highest Court Rules Against The State's Attempt To Reduce...
In a groundbreaking decision that has ramifications throughout the nation, the Illinois Supreme Court, in a 6 to 1 decision ruled that the State cannot reduce retiree health benefits, once approved....
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The Open Market Transfer System Is A Joke.
Once again, I have checked over ten schools in Queens that advertized for an Earth Science teacher on the Open Market Transfer System (OMTS), and didn't receive one interview. That's right, not one...
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New York State Education Department Is Going After Teacher Licenses Under...
Over the last few years the New York State Education (NYSED) has directly or indirectly used some of the RttT funds to go after teacher licenses who were terminated in their 3020-a hearings for "moral...
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Great Teachers Also Need Tenure Laws To Protect Themseleves From Vindictive...
The education reformers have redoubled their efforts in trying to eliminate teacher tenure and flush from a victory in California,which I believe will be reversed on appeal, they and they deep...
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Ex Members Who Resigned File A Lawsuit Against The UFT To Get Back Their...
As I expected, some ex-members who resigned or were terminated before the age of 55 have decided to file a lawsuit to get their much deserved retroactive raises between the 2009-13 school years which...
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The UFT Contract Screws The CSA As Well.
It now appears the UFT leadership not only screwed some of their own members, the ATRs, teachers who resigned or discontinued or died, and members on unpaid maturity leave and yes, members who went on...
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The DOE Labels ATRs With A Special Identity Card.
One of the ATRs went down to 65 Court Street to make some changes in her personnel file and decided, while there, to get a DOE employee identity card. She had her picture taken and received her new...
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The Fuzzy Math The Wall Street Journal Used For Their 3020-a Statistics
The Wall Street Journal received from the NYCDOE the 3020-a statistics for the last two years April 2012 to January 2014 on educators who were charged under section 3020-a for tenured educators. If...
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The New York City Pension System, Flush With Cash, Gives Billions To The City...
When the UFT was negotiating with the City for a contract, the City kept claiming poverty and the UFT accepted their argument by allowing for a cheap "City pattern" to be established by giving a 10%...
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Teacher Tenure And The DOE Investigation Process.
The education reform groups and their deep pocketed hedge fund supporters have decided to go to the courts to attack teacher tenure, claiming that teacher tenure protects bad teachers and hurts poor...
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DOE Wastes Over A Billion Dollars In Trying To Get ATRs To Leave The System.
In today's New York Post, an article was written on how the DOE has wasted over a billion dollars since 2005 to get ATRs to leave the system but for the most part, failed to do so. The article was...
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How long Does It Take For A 3020-a Hearing To Result In A Decision?
I was watching the Colbert Report with the clueless Campbell Brown who told the host that it takes an average of 830 days to get rid of an incompetent teacher. However, like usual, she got it wrong....
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The John Hopkins Study Shows That Family & Poverty Are The Major Factors In...
This June, John Hopkins published a study called "Children's Life Trajectories Largely Determined By The Family They Were Born Into". The study showed that the family and poverty were the most...
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The DOE Issues A Press Release Full Of Inaccuracies About ATRs.
The DOE issued a press release that claimed that 9% of the ATRs took the buyout and it will cost $1.8 million dollars. Moreover, the DOE estimates it will save the agency $15 million dollars next...
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Principals Continue To Advertise For Teachers Outside The DOE Approved Process.
Even before the Open Market Transfer System had closed on August 7th, principals were trying to hire teachers outside the DOE approved process, be it, the open market, ATR pool, or new teacher finder...
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The NY Post Shows Its Hypocracy When It Comes To Improving Schools.
Over the Bloomberg years and in the beginning of the De Blasio Administration, the New York Post, echoed the education reformer slogan that a great teacher in every classroom is the major...
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Bad News! No Retroactive Per Session Pay After All.
Despite assurances from UFT President Michael Mulgrew that all the members will get back every dollar owed to them, it now appears that the City and UFT have worked out an agreement that there will be...
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