Monday, July 24, 2006

Mayor Bloomberg's & Chancellor Klein's Children Last Program

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I have reached the halfway point in teaching summer school in my non-air conditioned building and have come up with the following observatio...
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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...