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Why NYC High School Students Have Terrible College And Career Readiness Rates.
There is no secret that the ever rising high school graduation ratedoes not result in increasing the college and career readiness rates that see 78% of high school graduates forced to take remedial...
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A Utah High School Fines Students Who Show Up Late For Class.
Most schools I have been in the last decade have a similar problem. Students taking their ever loving time to show up for class. Even in the small schools, students can't seem to move quickly enough...
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For Newbie Teachers Its Sink Or Swim With No Lifeguard To Save Them.
The DOE has empowered principals to hire who they please and even with the elimination of the useless and money sucking Children First Networks, Superintendents have so far failed to oversee school...
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When Will The Union Sue The DOE On Their Scarlet Letter?
Back when Dennis Walcott became Chancellor, he decided that all teachers who had a substantiated OSI or SCI investigation, would have a discipline flag attached to their file. This flag alerted...
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The ATR Incentive Failed To Achieve Its Goal To Drastically Reduce The ATR Pool.
At last night's Executive Board meeting the UFT leadership stated that 135 ATRs took the inferior buyout offer that the UFT secretly negotiated with the DOE, without ATR input.. This was significantly...
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The Bad Teacher Narrative.
Lately, the news media has been on a crusade about "bad teachers", especially the ATRs. Be it Charkbeat, Daily News, Post,Times, or the Wall Street Journal, the one-sided articles blasting teachers...
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The New York Post Editorial Board Continues Its Hypocrocy.
In today's New York Post, the Editorial Board claims that New York State Regents watered down yje teacher certification requirements and rightly so. The reason the State Regents eliminated one teacher...
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The DOE's Education On The Cheap Policy Academically Shortchanges The Students.
Over the years and certainly since the recession of 2008 the New York City Department Of Education (DOE) has shortchanged the schools with reduced budgets and lack of resources. Worse, the DOE reuses...
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Veteran Teachers Beware, Administrators Are Using Charlotte Danielson As A...
It appears to me that school administrators have been told that they must stay within the recession era budgets that the DOE has imposed on its public schools. Most schools are only receiving 90% of...
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Chasing Yield - Why The TRS Fixed Income Fund Is Unbeatable.
We have been in a low interest6 environment since 1990 and the average inflation rate since 1990 is only 2.51%. Just ask your parents and grandparents how painful it is for them as they only get...
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The DOE Double Standard Continues Under Carmen Farina.
In today's New York Post there is an article by Susan Edelman on ex-Principal Marc Williams who resigned when investigated for a grade fixing scandal at the Secondary School of Journalism in Brooklyn....
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Queens High Schools That Students Avoid.
One of the most informative data that tells a parent and child which schools to select and which one to avoid is the amount of vacancies a school has Schools with vacancies are a warning sign that the...
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Queens Renewal High Schools Keep Losing Students.
In my last post I listed the "dirty dozen"high schools in Queens that had the highest student vacancies after the first round of high school selection in 2017 and prominently on that list were the...
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The Maternity Leave Dilemma.
A petition to get the UFT to negotiate with the City on maternity leave was presented at the Executive Board meeting on Monday and the union leadership,while synthetic to the needs of the younger...
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Why Doesn't TRS Update The Final Average Salary Monthly?
As many of you are aware the Teachers' Retirement System has had a major facelift to its online access system. While some of the changes can be considered improvements, some of the other changes are...
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Weapon Seizures At Schools Increasing Under Mayor Bill De Blasio'
Since Bill de Blasio became Mayor and weakened the student discipline code while allowing students to have cellphones in the schools, which has resulted in schools becoming more unsafe. The result is...
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Why Do Schools Realy Have High Teacher Turnover Rates?
The UFT and DOE set up a consultation committeee to identify and solve the issue of high teacher turnover. For the Queens High Schools, on one side was the UFT who brought out that the primary issue...
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Why Are Teachers Absent More Than Other Workers? Its The Stress Stupid.
A clearly biased study published last month by the Charter friendly Thomas Fordham Institute found that public school teachers took off an average of 8 sick and or personal days each school year,...
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Why Giving Principals Unlimited Authority Hurts Student Academic Achievement
In 2005 the UFT leadership under Randi Weingarten, irreversibly changed the dynamics of a school by agreeing to a contract that gave principals unlimited authority to run the schools as they saw fit....
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Not All UFT Educators Who Worked In The 2009-10 School Years Get The Lump Sum...
This Sunday UFT members will get their second 12.5% lump sum payment in their regular paycheck if they were on active service in the 2009 and 2010 school years. The lump sum payments are money owed to...
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