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Santa Claus Is Fired Yet Again By The Dysfunctional DOE.
Santa Claus, while waiting to do his real job, delivering presents to the world's children, he received an email from the Department of Education that as a discontinued teacher, Santa Claus can now...
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My 2017 Predictions
Here are my predictions for 2017.UFT Leadership:Look for the UFT leadership to continue to make nice with the DOE at the expense of the members as they refuse to go after vindictive principals, allow...
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The DOE Talks Integration But It's Policies Encourages Segregated High Schools.
When Michael Bloomberg became Mayor of New York City there were only 15.8% of the high schools who screened their students. By 2009, at the beginning of the Mayor's third term, screened schools...
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How NYC Labor Commissioner Bob Linn Outsmarted Michael Mulgrew In Negotiating...
When Mayor Michael Bloomberg finally left office on January 1, 2014. UFT President Michael Mulgrew saw an opportunity to curry favor with the Bill de Blasio administration and pushed for a long...
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Teachers And Stress, The Unseen Reason Why Good Teachers Quit.
As a second career teacher I know what it was like to work in an office and now in the classroom and the difference is night and day. In an office you interact with a dozen adult personalities. By...
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Too Bad Black Lives Matter Seem Not To Care About Black Children Shot By Gang...
Over the last couple of years and especially after the Ferguson Missouri incident. Black outrage against the police resulted in the rise of a new group called"Black Lives Matter". This group was a...
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Superintendents, The Weakest Link In The NYC Public Schools.
One of the very few improvements Chancellor Carmen Farina implemented was eliminating the useless and money sucking Children First Networks (CFN) and replaced their function back where it belonged with...
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Things About The ATR Incentive I Would Like To Know From The DOE And UFT...
Earlier this school year the DOE, realizing that there is going to be a teacher shortage in the coming years and has already hit the Bronx, offered schools an incentive to hire ATRs. This incentive...
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The Appointment Of Randy Asher To Tackle The ATR Problem Shows That The ATR...
The DOE announced that the former Principal of Brooklyn Tech, Randy Asher, will get a promotion and a $185,000 dollar salary to tackle the vexing ATR problem. According to Chancellor Carmen Farina,...
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Why The School System Continues To Fail Students. Its The Inequality!
One of the metrics the DOE and politicians love to use is the graduation rate. Every year the graduation inches up and everybody praises the heavens for the apparent improvement. However, when I...
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The DOE's Double Standard Continues.
One of the most glaring issues dealing with the DOE is the "double standard" when disciplining teachers and administrators. Teachers who commit or allegedly committed minor infractions can and usually...
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Student Misbehavior Is Ignored By Chancellor Carmen Farina
In yesterday's New York Post, Chancellor Carmen Farina used some questionable statistics to show how the New York City schools have improved. First, was the 70% high school graduation rate, of course...
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The Hiring Of Inexperienced Teachers Hurt Student Academic Achievement On...
There is no secret that almost all of the 4,500 annual vacancies in the New York City Public School system were filled by "newbie" teachers as the DOE's Fair Student Funding (FSF) policy and the ever...
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Rumor Has It The ATR Rotation Is No More!
I was told by my APO that as of Feb 4, 2017 the school assigned to the rotating ATRs will be the school they will remain in for the rest of the school year. Apparently, the first tangible change Randy...
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Now Is The Time To Purge The Bloomberg Ideology From The DOE.
When Bill de Blasio replaced Micheal Bloomberg as Mayor of New York City most educators were hoping that a new spirit of cooperation between the DOE and schools would replace the antagonism that was...
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Here's The Problem Randy Asher Has In Placing ATRs.
In the vocational high school that I am assigned to until the next rotation, an Earth Science teacher is leaving at the end of the semester. The five year Leadership Academy Principal, rather than...
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Bronxdale, Another DOE Diploma Mill High School
It has become increasingly clear that the DOE only cares about one thing the, graduation rate! It appears that all other metrics are ignored by the DOE and they want everybody to buy into the fiction...
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Buying Back Service Credit Is Good For Your Pension.
A number of educators have failed to take advantage of a perk that can greatly enhance one's pension. That is to"buy back"pension credits for public service jobs that they once worked in New York...
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The DOE Sees Nothing Wrong With Large Class Sizes And Fair Student Funding.
This week the NYC Council's Education Committee held hearings on teacher recruitment and retention at City Hall. Appearing for the DOE was Amy Way at the DOE's Office of Teacher Recruitment and Quality...
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DOE's Bloated Bureaucracy Keeps On Growing While Schools Suffer From Tight...
During the Bloomberg years, the biggest complaint from education experts was the bloated DOE Bureaucracy as more and more funds were transferred from schools to Central Administration. You can read...
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