Chaz's School Daze

This is another investigative article on how the October 2005 contract that the UFT rammed down our throat has adversely affected the teach...

Tweed's crusade against the experienced teacher is moving full steam ahead as it appears that more teachers will be retiring or resignin...

That wonderful "Education Reform Warrior", Joel Klein continues to push his anti-teacher crusade by giving a six item "wish l...

I couldn't help but laugh when I opened up to the New York Daily News opinion page and read how that pseudo - education reformer Michael...

The DOE's dirty little secret is the damage that is done to the students when a teacher is removed from his/her classroom. While a few...

I just checked off my survey and not surprisingly I found myself strongly disagreeing with Chancellor Klein's policy. In other words C...

Only in the bizarre world of the Kleinberg DOE can a principal of a failing school that is closing down get a $15,000 bonus. A second pr...

The two most powerful unions in New York City are the Police and Teachers. However, the union leaders have dramatically different approache...

One of the most contentious giveback of the terrible 2005 contract was the elimination of the "Seniority Transfer System" that al...

The education mayor and his sidekick, the Chancellor have done it again. They have taken a 4.5 billion dollar city budget surplus and are c...

The New York City Teaching Corps have many "baby boomers" among them. These "baby boomers" are fast approaching ret...

The Kleinberg administration has over the years has worked the old shell game that allowed them to use money as they see fit while starving...

In the warped universe of the DOE a teacher is more likely to get in trouble if the teacher (especially a male teacher) is charged with hugg...

Congratulations, you have survived the school year to see the 5% pay increase in your salary. Now what should you do with it? This is as a...

There seems to be some misunderstanding on what a Principal can do, or not do to a teacher. Let me explain it as simply as possible. A Pri...

The Chancellor's Regulations are what all school staff is subject to and violating these regulations can get a teacher in trouble. I ha...

In my previous post I questioned the double standard when teachers and principals are investigated. In the undemocratic world of the DOE th...

It is incredible that the statements of up to thirteen, yes thirteen teachers who filed eleven corporal punishment allegations against the...

Today is national teacher appreciation day but you wouldn't know it at the DOE. Tweed is too busy removing teachers from the classroo...

During the administration of Bloomberg and Klein there has been a major effort to push highly-paid veteran teachers to retire or resign. I...