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In The DOE Its Still Cronyism Over Competence.
Mayor Bill de Blaio announced earlier in the week the appointment of Aimee Horowitz as the new Executive Superintendent of the School Renewal Program. While the Mayor and other politicians gave Ms....
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The New Discipline Policy Is A Disaster Waiting To Happen.
Under pressure from the Obama Administration and approved by Mayor Bill de Blasio, there is a new, more lenient discipline policy for disruptive students in the New York City Public Schools. No longer...
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Parents Should Join The "Opt Out" Movement And Stop The NYSED From Hurting...
More and more parents are joining the "opt out" movement and not having their children subject to these high stakes tests that instill fear and loathing into the students. These high stakes tests are...
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The Scholarship Requirement Artificially Raises The Graduation Rate And...
Over the Bloomberg/Klein years the high school graduation rate jumped significantly and of course the Mayor and Chancellor claimed their education policy was a success. In fact, the Chancellor proudly...
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Putting Lipstick On The Pig Doesn't Solve The ATR Crisis.
The De Blasio/Farina administration claims their policy has been successful in reducing the ATR pool by encouraging these teachers to leave the system as a gentler approach to solving the ATR crisis....
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To The Daily News. It's The DOE's Education On The Cheap Policy That Causes...
The New York Daily News ran a series about the New York City schools that was biased and supported Governor Cuomo's badly flawed education agenda. However, in one of their articles, they did touch on...
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Chancellor Carmen Farina Continues Her Attacks On Teachers.
When our union leadership was telling the media that they now had a friend ruining the DOE in Carmen Farina and life would become easier for teachers. However, I was highly skeptical. Yes the very...
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Join The Demonstration Against Governor Cuomo Tomorrow.
Tomorrow there will be demonstrations throughout the State against the Governor's education agenda. The biggest one will be held in front of the Governor's Office at 633 3rd avenue at 41st. To join...
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The Danger For Teachers In Governor Cuomo's Education Agenda.
The hedge fund financed and supported Governor has proposed an education agenda that comes straight out of the corporate deformer playbook that intends to destroy the unions and make the classroom...
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Mulgrew Declares Victory As Governor Cuomo Gets His Way. - Teachers Are The...
It appears that Governor Andrew Cuomo won big time in the budget as he gets many of the things he wanted in the teacher evaluation system. Not surprisingly, UFT Michael Mulgrew claimed victory for...
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The Atlanta Cheating Scandal And The NYS Teacher Evaluation System. What The...
Rather than continue with the analysis of the demoralizing teacher evaluation system which has been thoroughly covered by Perdido Street School , ICEUFT Blog,nyc educator, andEd Notes Online, this post...
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Four Step Bucket Approach For Teacher Retirement.
We educators have a very nice retirement package, assuming we can last long enough to be vested and accumulate enough years to reach at least twenty. We get a pension that covers approximately 40% (20...
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How Changes To NYSED Part 83 Regulations Treats A Teacher Like A Convicted...
One of the many changes in the punitive teacher evaluation system are the changes to the New York State Education Department Part 83 Regulations on an educator's "Moral Character". Presently, if the...
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The Governor's Blame Game.
Its very interesting how Governor Cuomo has blamed teachers for his punitive education agenda that will hasten teacher retirements, bring about a teacher shortage, and hurt struggling schools in...
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The NYSED Is Running Scared With Threats If Parents "Opt Out" Their Children...
Reading the newspapers, the statements coming out of the Cuomo Administration , the NYSED, and Regents Chancellor Meryl Tisch, its obvious their running scared about the percentage of children who will...
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Teacher Discontinuances Increase Under Mayor De Blasio And Chancellor Farina....
Thanks to Francesco Portelos's FOIL request, we now find out that an astonishing 186 untenured teachers were discontinued in just a four month period between July 1 to October 31 of 2014. This figure...
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Michael Mulgrew's Fantasy World.
It is with little surprise that at last night's Executive Board meeting UFT President, Michael Mulgrew, defended the union's position not to take a stand against the basely flawed Common Core...
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The Governor And NYSED Only Have ThemselvesTo Blame On the "Opt Out" Explosion.
It appears that approximately 200,000 students have"opted out" of the badly flawed high-stakes Common Core tests in English. In Long Island almost 50% of the students "opted out". While the numbers...
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Latest "Opt Out" Numbers Across The State.
The explosion of students who "opted out" will not have a final number until all the school districts comply with the FOIL and publish the data. However, enough school districts have reported (69%) to...
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What The NYC KidsPAC Report Omitted.
With much fanfare and great hopes, the De Blasio Administration would make real change to the NYC public schools. Even our UFT President, Michael Mulgrew, said so and he never lies! Right? However,...
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