Chaz's School Daze

As predicted, the money is similar to the DC37 pact with a 7.1% increase for 24 months with a 2% raise on October 13, 2007 and a 5% raise on...

The negotiation committee is now down to a more manageable 50. However, from my view in the classroom I am suspicious if the negotiators ...

The negotiations between the UFT and the Bloomberg administration is on the fast track and it appears that the takebacks are being left b...

The Center for Public Leadership at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government has chosen Mayor Bloomberg & Chancellor Klein as...

Yes, it's me Cleo Lacey. I have hijacked Chaz's blog to show you the power I have, punks ! Now that I have control of this blog, ...

The increasing clueless and remote Department of Education (DOE) finds dumber & dumber things to impose on the classroom teachers, witho...

One of the problems I see at the high school level is the disconnect the principal has with the student body. This lack of communication wi...

As we enter the final year of our contract with a 3.15% increase and for the average teacher salary of $48,000 this equals $58.15 per payche...

A teacher in the New York City School System is vested , for pension purposes, after five years. However, a teacher must still put in ten y...

When last I wrote about how Tweed was angry that our school refused the wonderful DOE offer of cameras in the schools. The result was to t...

The New York Post, of all newspapers, in their Sunday, October 1, 2006 editorial stated that good schools have focused principals who place...

It is common knowledge that there are over a thousand Absent Teacher Reserves (ATR's) roaming around with no teaching assignments and wo...

In a New York Post article Randi Weingarten complained that to encourage qualified minorities to join the New York City teacher corps, the c...

In the past year I have complained about many things that my union, the UFT, has done. Starting with the contract and ending with my attack...

Previously, I commented on the Department of Education's (DOE) policy of promoting " not ready for promotion" eighth graders (...

In an Edwize article a comment by the respected Peter Goodman of Unity (yes I do respect his opinon - unlike the rest of the Unity hacks) s...

On the first day of students my school received an unpleasent surprise, a boatload of NYPD's finest showed up at the school. What were ...

Over the last decade there has been an explosion of defined contribution (401k) plans in the business community. In fact the Federal Gover...

I just spend the two of the most miserable days in my teaching career doing nothing at my school. Instead of recharging my batteries on vac...

The principal of Lafayette high school has reduced student Earth Science classroom grades 10 to 15 points if they failed the Earth Science R...