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Where Is Minerva Zanca Working Now? You Won't Believe It.
Ex Principal Minerva Zanca, who was removed from the troubled and struggling Pan American International High School was charged by the U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara with a civil rights lawsuit of racial...
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Connecting The Dots Of Bad Principals.
In yesterday's New York Daily News there was an article about parents protesting against the new Principal Monika Garg. You can read the article Here. You can even read more about the situation Here....
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How High Schools Hurt Students In The DOE's Education On The Cheap Policy.
Sometime during the tenure of Joel Klein, a nameless bureaucrat at Tweed realized that high schools could save on Science teachers by reducing Science instruction from 5 days to 4 days a week by making...
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The DOE Abuses The ATR Agreement And Our Union Allows It.
If you have been following the ICEUFT blog, James Eterno effectively dissected the section of the 2014 contract that pertains to the ATRs which reduces their "due process rights"and the section in the...
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What Happens When A Teacher Decides To Return To Teaching Before He Exhausts...
One of the little noticed aspects of the DOE/UFT contract is the decision to dump teachers who decide to return to teaching before they exhaust their terminal leave, into the ATR pool rather than their...
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The Best Of Chaz's School Daze.
Occasionally, I will reprint some of my very best blog posts and in this reprint I will post how you can stop your COPE payments that allow our disconnected union leadership to abuse our funds to...
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The New York Post's Selective Memory When It Comes To The Bogus Graduation...
I could only chuckle when the New York Post's Editorial Board criticized the rising graduation rate under Mayor Bill dr Blasio. While the graduation rate does not reflect actual college and career...
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The DOE's Evil Empire Continues.
It was only two years ago when Carmen Farina was made Chancellor and UFT President Michael (don't call me Mikey) Mukgrew claimed there was a new tone at the DOE. However, we now know that the evil...
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Why Won't The Union Or DOE Publish A Breakdown Of The Open Market Transfer...
Previously Gene J. Mann spouted the Unity line how successful the Open Market Transfer System (OMTS) was. He rattled off how 4,000 educators transferred annually, compared to 300 before the OMTS was...
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Income Inequity Is Due To Education, Family, & Community.
Over the years various studies showed that social-economic factors had a strong correlation with the success of children as they reached adulthood. Most show that 80% is associated with family and...
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Class Sizes Continue To Increase Under Mayor Bill De Blasio.
One of Bill de Blasio's campaign promises was to reduce class sizes and no longer make New York City the school system with the largest class sizes in the State. Well the latest data has shown how...
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Another Terrible School With A Leadership Academy Principal
If you have been following the news in the last month we now have another candidate for my "bad principals" posts. He is Leadership Academy Principal Steve Dorcely, with his only teaching experience...
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Why Have Teacher Salaries Remain Essentially Flat Since 1990? Its Demographics.
A study that compared the average teacher salaries nationwide, between 1990 and 2010 have found that teacher salaries have remained essentially flat during the study period. In 1990 the average...
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Democratic Platform Is Pro Public School But What About Hillary Clinton?
I was pleasantly surprised that the Democratic party's education plank veered sharply away from the education reform narrative under President Barack Obama and his basketball playing buddy Arnie...
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The New York Post Article On Renewal School Teachers Is More Myth Than Fact.
The pro charter, anti public school teacher New York Post published an article of what happened to the 98 teachers that either did not decide to reapply for their jobs or were not selected for the...
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Another Example On Why Restorative Justice Does Not Work - John Adams High...
Since Bill de Blasio became Mayor and appointed Carmen Farina as Chancellor, the New York City Public Schools feel more unsafe. First, was the elimination of the cellphone ban that has resulted in...
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The DOE's Double Standard Continues.
In today's New York Post there is an article about the two female teachers at James Madison High School in Brooklyn who were caught in an empty classroom being intimate with each other was targeted for...
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Finally, Michael Mulgrew Backs Teachers On The Weakened Student Discipline Code.
One of my major criticisms with our disconnected union leadership was that they were more interested in playing nice with the De Blasio/Farina administration then advocate for teachers. They even...
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The Academic Achievement Gap Is Caused By Family And Community, Not The Schools.
Approximately 50 years ago, the Coleman Reportwas published and it showed that the primary factor in a student's academic achievement was the family environment, the community the child lived in, and...
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Why Teachers Should Not Resign Under Section 3020-a If You Are Charged With...
It's common knowledge that most NYSUT attorneys recommend that the teacher resign rather than face an almost certain "award" of termination is found to be incompetent (ineffective) by the arbitrator....
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