Friday, July 14, 2006

New York City Has Agreed To A Contract With No Givebacks - Very Interesting!

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Shockingly the Bloomberg administration has agreed to a tentative contract with it's largest union (DC37) that apparently does not con...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

A Quality Teacher In Every Classroom? - You Get What You Pay For

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A nonpartisan organization called the Education Trust has found that students in urban, high-povety high schools were twice as likely to mee...
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Friday, July 07, 2006

Is Our Union Strong? Let's Compare With The Heavy Construction Union

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I can only laugh at how my union, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), is so feared by the New York City media. If you read the Daily N...
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Bronx Sixth Graders Pass The Living Environment Regents

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In the Wednesday New York Times there was an article on how ten of the twenty-three sixth grade students(23 not 34 in the class?) passed the...
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Saturday, July 01, 2006

School's Over! Or Is It?

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At 2:45 pm on June 28th I walked out of my school to enjoy the summer off. Let's see I don't have to report back to my school until...
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Sunday, June 25, 2006

New York State Refuses To Increase Charter Schools. Hooray!

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The New York State Legislature refused to increase the number of Charter Schools from the existing 100 to 250, as Governer Pataki demanded. ...
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Same Old UFT, Givebacks For The Members & Salary Increases For The Leadership

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Last night the UFT Leadership voted itself the same 15% pay raise that the members received. Sounds like this is fair....Except the 15% rai...
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Friday, June 16, 2006

Small School" Bias "- The DOE Lies & Our Union's Silence

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The federal Department of Education is investigating the complaints filed against the New York City DOE by the Citywide Council on High Scho...
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Thursday, June 15, 2006

The TRS 403b (TDA) Plan Revisited

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In my previous column I commented on how limited, inflexible, and uncompetitive the New York City Teachers' Annuity Plan is when compare...
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Friday, June 09, 2006

A Classroom Teacher's Report Card Of The DOE

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I was very amused by the June 1, 2006 letter from Chancellor Klein to the parents about the new school report card. The report card will in...
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Our TDA (403b) Plan & It's Many Faults

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In my decade of employment as a teacher I have been a willing participant in the New York City Teachers Retirement System and its 403b plan....
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Thursday, June 01, 2006

The Next Contract ? Read This!

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Already there is talk about the next contract and the failure of the negotiation committee to have a no giveback position. While I'm no...
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Sunday, May 28, 2006

Education On The Cheap - You Get What You Pay For

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If it wasn't so sad I would laugh how Mayor Mike Bloomberg keeps calling himself "the education mayor". Mayor Bloomberg, like ...
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Sunday, May 21, 2006

It's Time For Takebacks In the Next Contract

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Last week New York City and the Police Union started contract negotiations and this appears to be the time for the United Federation of Teac...
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006

The Department Of Education's Student Discipline Code - What A Joke!

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A major reason that schools are struggling with student discipline is the Department of Education's (DOE) unwillingness to hold students...
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Cellphones In Schools - My Opinion

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The most heated arguments in the New York City Schools is whether the students should be allowed to have cellphones in the school. School a...
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Saturday, April 29, 2006

The Abuse Of The Classroom Teacher & My Union's Poor Priorities

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At this week's delegate meeting you would expect that the big issues would be teacher retention, classroom conditions, and improvements ...
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

New York City & Teachers Union Agree On a Bonus & Housing Subsides For New Teachers To the System What A Deal, Or Is It?

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The New York City Department Of Education (DOE), with the approval of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) have started a 1.5 million dol...
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Friday, April 21, 2006

Marriage & Men Why It Is Important For Our Society

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Many people seem to downplay the social unraveling of our society. Some cry racism. Others yell it's the seperation of the classes. W...
Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Schools Are To Be Graded - A Tale Of Two Schools

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The New York City Department of Education (DOE) has decided to grade the public schools based upon testing, attendance, school safety, and...
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