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Why Defined Pensions Are Great For Teachers.
One of the great benefits in being a teacher in New York State is the defined pension benefit we have. For the 40% of state teachers that are vested for a pension, the pension benefit averages about...
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NYC Reaches Its Charter School Cap
The remaining seven openings for charter schools in New York City has been tentatively filled by the SUNY's Board Of Trustees. This means that, unless an existing charter school closes down, no new...
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Student Discipline Is Out Of Control In NYC Schools
The Blasio administration crowed that suspensions were down 50% and restorative justice programs were a success. The truth is that if you ask the teachers, their school student discipline is out of...
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The Inconvenient Truth On Why The Renewal School Program Was A Failure
The Renewal Schools program will be discontinued at the end of the school year due to their failure to achieve meaningful student academic improvement. The question is why did the Renewal Schools fail...
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NYC Public School Student Climate Change Walkout Were Mostly White Elites
I was watching both Channel 2 (CBS) and Channel 7 (ABC) and noticed that the vast majority of students who were protesting climate change were White. Few minority students can be seen at the student...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) Supports NYC Public Schools
We all know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is a dedicated Democrat Socialist and I have little in common with fringe left and tea party politicians, be it AOC or Ted Cruz of Texas. However, there...
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No Bullying At Hillcrest High School - Yeah Right
Hillcrest High School is notorious for not reporting incidents and even received an award for being a "safe school". Once again, Hillcrest High School has made the newspapers by not reporting one...
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Inexperienced Teachers Are Correlated With Low Student Academic Achievement
It's no secret that the New York City Public School's hiring process incentivizes principals to hire cheap and inexperienced teachers under the discriminatory Fair Student Funding (fsf) program....
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The Real Reason Black And Latino Students Have Low acceptance Rates For The...
Black and Latino students only had a 10.6% acceptance rate for the specialized high schools. The question is why so low? According to Susan Edelman's article, education experts cited three...
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Should You Annuitize Your TDA?
One of the options teachers have is to annuitize the TDA when you retire. There are two ways to annuitize. The first, is to give it to an insurance company, which under current yields, give you...
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My Vote In The UFT Election
In the UFT election I voted for the person and not the caucus and that meant that I spent an hour picking and choosing. Here are my selections for the power positions on the ballot.President: Lydia...
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Under Chancellor Carranza The DOE Double Standard Continues
Teachers were hoping that Chancellor Richard Carranza would eliminate the"double standard", when disciplining principals. After a couple Principal dismissals that reached the newspapers, the...
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There Is No Such Thing As A Good Education For Excellence Member.
Another UFT election is approaching and the pseudo-education group called Educators For Excellence (E4E) has, once again, decided not to run a slate of mandates, fearing how little support they would...
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Long Island Students Continue To "Opt Out"
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) had hoped that by eliminating the time limit and to make the high-stakes tests shorter, more students would take the tests. However, when it came to...
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The "Hit Squad"- DOE's Office Of the General Counsel
The Department Of Education (DOE) has a group of lawyers who's only job is to terminate teachers by any means possible. The lawyers are from the DOE's Office Of Legal Services (OLS), now known as...
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Mayor Bill de Blasio Needs To Revamp DOE's Teacher Hiring Process
Back in 2005, the UFT under President Randi Weingarten negotiated the worst contract in NYC education history by giving up seniority transfer and Civil Service protected bumping rights. By doing so,...
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How Respected Is Teaching Worldwide?
A survey produced by a think tank found that China has the highest respect for teaching while Brazil has the lowest. The study was done for 35 countries worldwide and the top five countries that...
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For Experienced Teachers The Open Market Transfer System Is A Joke
The Open Market Transfer System (OMTS) is now open. However, if you are a veteran teacher, the OMTS is simply a joke since principals are only looking for cheap and "newbie" teachers. This is because...
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Will Solidarity Become The Dominant Opposition Caucus?
As expected, the Unity caucus swept all the positions as the opposition caucuses could not agree with each other to form a united front. The biggest loser was MORE, who lost their moderate supporters...
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Why I Cannot Support Cory Booker For President
Corey Booker is one of two dozen Presidential candidates for the Democratic nomination. However, based on Mr. Booker,s history, I cannot support him for President and here's why.Support for Charter...
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