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To The UFT. You've Got To Be Kidding Me!
Believe it or not, our UFT leadership is in collusion with the DOE when it comes to the ATR issue. Both the DOE and UFT pretend that they want to get ATRs placed permanently in schools. Yet, as they...
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Renewal Schools Are Sucking Up Money Thanks To Amiee Horowitz's Bloated...
The New York Post has an article that details the bloated Bureaucracy that runs the Renewal school program. Astonishingly the DOE pays $12.7 million dollars annually for questionable administrative...
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How Is The ATR Financial Inicentive Working? Not Too Well So Far.
At the beginning of October the DOE informed principals they can hire ATRs at a steep financial discount for the next three years. The schools get the ATR for free this year, at half price the second...
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The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly When It Comes To The Unity Leadership.
I have been highly critical of our disconnected union leadership and rightly so. Our union leadership has given us inferior contracts that are short on money and loaded with "givebacks". They agreed...
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Why I Would Never Work For This Hindu Goddess?
I have posted a couple times my list of "bad principals" and back in August of 2015 on the list is a middle school principal from Queens Rushell White.of Q 226. Principal White has been identified in...
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In The DOE, Its Children Last...Always.
Every time I used to go on the DOE website I would see their recently discontinued slogan of"Children First....Always." However, the DOE's actions when it comes to the students of the classroom is far...
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Our TDA Is Cost Efficient With Low Administrative Fees And That's Good News.
I have been getting calls and emails about contributing to our 403(b) (TDA) program after the New York Times published an article on the high fees charged to teachers in their 403(b) plans. According...
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Horror Stories That Hurt Student Academic Achievement This Halloween.
As we approach Halloween, its"trick or treat" time for the kiddies. However, when it comes to the New York City Public Schools, its all about tricking the students and their parents rather than...
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Why Teachers Quit The Profession.
Its no secret that teacher morale has plummeted, that widespread teacher shortages are a fact of life nationwide, Even in New York City, the Bronx has more vacancies than teachers certified in the...
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How Do The Renewal Schools Compare To The Old Chancellor's District?
What are the chances that the Renewal Schools will improve student academic achievement? To see if these schools can really succeed, I decided to take Mr. Peabody's "way back machine" to 1996 when...
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How Small Themed School Principals Want To Game The System By Rejecting High...
I read the Beth Fertigschoolbook articleon how small themed schools try to get the most interesting applicants to their school and have some real issues about how naive Beth Fertig is, considering how...
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How Stupid Are Principals? This Stupid!
I was told a story by an ATR teacher who was recently assigned to a school with a vacancy in his content specialty. He was covering for a recently hired "newbie" who had an altercation with a student...
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Its Goodbye And Good Riddance To A Terrible Teacher
I have been accused by some principals of only going after them for their incompetence and vindictive actions and rightly so since they run their schools. Remember, bad administrators makes for a bad...
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What Teachers Want
There is a disconnect between what teachers want and what education reformers expect. This disconnect is exacerbated by politicians and their media allies who, along with the education reform movement...
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Teachers Vote That Chancellor Carmen Farina And Her DOE Managers Are Not To...
In the school I have been assigned to we had an uneventful Professional Development (PD). However, there was one part of the PD I found very interesting. A question was asked by the trainer. The...
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Welcome To Trumpland.
In a shocking upset, Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by capturing nearly all the important battleground States (Florida, Ohio, North Carolina, Iowa, and Arizona) worth 79 electoral votes, only losing...
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Now This Person Identified The Real Issue And Should Be President.
I was told a story by a teacher who works in a transfer high school in the Bronx. However, before I tell you the story, you should know what a transfer school is. A transfer school is a school that...
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Why Retirees Need To Account For Inflation.
For New York City teachers who manage to reach retirement age, (only about 33% will reach full retirement age). They can look forward to a generous pension and a TDA. The average NYC teacher retiree...
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The DOE Continues To Target Senior Teachers.
When Bill de Blasio replaced Michael Bloomberg as Mayor and selected Carmen Farina as Chancellor, the UFT President. Michael Mulgrew, proclaimed"there's a new tone at the DOE". However, Chancellor...
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Why Teachers Are Being Forced To Retire Due To The Contract.
Until the passing of the June 2014 contract, teachers at retirement age charged under 3020-a could go through the entire hearing process without worrying about losing their benefits. If the teacher...
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