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Teacher Tenure And Retention.
Over the years teacher tenure has been under attack. Even in deep blue and union friendly States like California and New York. Education reform groups and their media allies have presented teacher...
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The Renewal High Schools Academically Are Like A One Legged Man In An Ass...
One of the greatest failures of the Bill de Blasio Administration is his Renewal School program. These are struggling schools with a low achieving student population, a competitive disadvantage in...
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Social Security And NYC Educators.
We New York City Public School educator gets some pretty good benefits. A nice pension, a TDA that gives 7% to 8.25% interest with no fees, and affordable health benefits, not to mention union...
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How Vindictive Is The DOE When It Comes To Whistleblowers? This Vindictive.
Teachers who have been working in the New York City school system for decades know, either first hand, or from colleagues how the DOE's Office of Legal Services will pull out all stops to terminate...
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When Statistics Lie About School Violence.
The Bill de Blasio administration has proudly announced that school suspensions and criminal arrests have dropped significantly since he took office and that's correct. However, if one was to look...
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Mayor Bill De Blasio's Education Grade Is A Failure.
When Bill de Blasio campaigned to be Mayor in 2013, his education platform was very impressive, It promised lower class sizes, an elimination of the despised Bloomberg Era education reform, and a...
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Why Can't Renewal Schools Recruit Quality Teachers?
Public Advocate, Latitia James, has called for a probe of the policies affecting the Renewal School program. She appears most upset about the declining enrollment, lack of resources, poor and costly...
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Student Discipline Is Getting Worse Under The Mayor's Misguided Policies.
Over the last two years I wrote some posts about how school discipline has been getting worse since Mayor, Bill de Blasio took office who sees the New York City Public Schools from the perspective of...
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Are You On Track To A Comfortable Retirement?
One of the nice perks being an educator in the New York City Public School system is that, if you can last to full retirement age, you will get a generous pension and Social Security. The question is...
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Trump's Preliminary Budget Takes A Bite Out Of Public School Education.
The Trump administration sent a preliminary budget to Congress with massive cuts in education, environment, and foreign aid. Smaller cuts are proposed for most other domestic programs except for the...
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What Do The DOE And Silicon Valley Have In Common? Hiring Cheap.
Tonight, CBS's 60 minuets will have a story how the many Silicon Valley technology companies abuse the H-IB visa that allows companies the ability to hire foreign Engineers and Scientists who have a...
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UFT Members And The Cumulative Absence Reserve.
There seems to be some confusion about our Cumulative Absence Reserve (CAR) and how school administrators try to dictate how they are used. This post will try to clear up the many misconceptions about...
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Charter Sector High Schools Are The Stepchildren Of The NYC School System
One of the little known issues in the New York City schools is how terrible most of the charter sector high schools are when it comes to receiving a quality education. This post will discuss the many...
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Anoither Case Of The DOE Double Standard When Disciplining Administrators -...
In today's News York Post, embattled Principal Santiago Taveras of Dewitt Clinton High School in the Bronx has officially lost his position as Principal due to academic misconduct but will still earn...
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The Secretive C-30 Selection Process - The Reason Why We Have So Many...
I have written about the bad principals I have encountered, read, or heard about, mostly in Queens and in the high schools. I also discussed the weakest link in the system, the Superintendents selected...
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Chancellor Carmen Farina's Failure To Eliminate The Bloomberg Era Policies Is...
It has been over three years since Carmen Farina took over as Chancellor of the New York City School System and many of her promises to overhaul the New York City Public Schools and eliminate the...
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Major Changes AT DOE And UFT Starting Today
It has come to the attention of this blog that there will be major changes at both the DOE and the UFT today.First, Chancellor Carmen Farina has retired for good, effective today. In her farewell...
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More Academic Fraud At Flushing High School.
Once again another disgusting case of academic fraud has shown up at a Renewal School. This time its Flushing high school where students who passed the Algebra class because of the Principal's...
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Test Refusals Are As High As Ever On Long Island.
It appears that there were some slight reductions Statewide when it came to the "opt out"rates for the English Language Arts (ELA) high-stake test this year. However, the same cannot be said for the...
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Queens High Schools That Parents And Students Avoid.
Last year the DOE punished a list of student vacancies for all the City high schools in the second round. I suspect this year's numbers are similar. That means that these schools where not listed on...
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