Friday, November 28, 2008

Chapter Leaders Who Are Targeted By Principals Should Have An Independent Investigation To Determine If Their Removal From The School Is Required

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Being a Chapter Leader (CL) at a school is probably the toughest job a teacher can have and the good ones spend more time preforming their d...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008

The ATR Agreement, The Open Market Transfer System, & The Appointed Teacher

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There is some talk about the provisional nature of the ATR Agreement and it is a cause for concern. Just to clarify how it works. A Prin...
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Thursday, November 20, 2008

The ATR Agreement Shows That The DOE Lost The Tenure War - For Now

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The Memorandum of Agreement between the DOE and UFT appears to be a rare win as the DOE has apparently conceded defeat and will encourage ...
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Saturday, November 15, 2008

How Principals Mainipulate The Phony High School Report Card Grades

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The DOE continues to waste precious funds on their ridiculous "Accountability Program ". According to the Daily News , the "A...
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Monday, November 10, 2008

How The DOE Explots Frightened Reassigned Teachers By Threatening Them With Termination

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As many of you know there are over 800 teachers that have been reassigned from their classroom duties. Most of them are assigned to the Tea...
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Friday, November 07, 2008

A Message To Barak Obama - Don't Make That Phony Education Reformer, Joel Klein, Your Secretary Of Education

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News reports have said that New York City Chancellor, Joel Klein, is on the short list for Secretary of Education. This is a terrible choic...
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Sunday, November 02, 2008

Why Mayoral Control Is Bad For NYC Public Schools

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There is a battle going on whether Mayoral control should continue as is or be modified. Mayor Micheal Bloomberg wants to keep total contr...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008

The DOE Keeps Wasting Money On Themselves & Keeps The Classroom Overcrowded

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Tweed continues to waste money on their bloated central bureaucracy, paying out 5 million dollars on expensive private courier services rath...
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Saturday, October 25, 2008

The SCI Investigation Of Teachers Is Almost Always One-Sided And Biased. Especially When The Principal Pushes It!

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One of the more serious investigations conducted on teachers, short of police detectives coming to arrest you, is a group of ex-police detec...
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Monday, October 20, 2008

Should We Care About The "Teaching Fellows" ATRs?

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There seems to be some disagreement within the UFT if we should fight for the "Teaching Fellows" ATRs . If the 240 "Teachin...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

A Tale Of Two Teachers - Which One Would You Want For Your Child?

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This is a true story. The names of the teachers, the principal, and the school have been changed to protect the reputation of the individua...
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Monday, October 13, 2008

The Slow Destruction Of Jamaica High School By The DOE

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There was a report in the New York Post that showed how few students selected Jamaica High School as one of their 12 schools of choice. ...
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Saturday, October 11, 2008

The DOE Layoff Dilemma

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There are rumors going around the education world that New York City may be setting up a layoff list and that layoffs may occur as soon as t...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Wanted: OSI Investigators To Send More Teachers To The Rubber Room

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In today's Chief , the Civil Service Newspaper, there is an advertisement for investigators for the DOE's Office Of Special Inves...
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Sunday, October 05, 2008

The DOE's "Education On The Cheap" Just Results In Hurting The Students

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Tweed continues to starve the classrooms with their budget cuts while spending ungodly sums of money for highly-paid consultants, non-educat...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

The UFT/DOE "Rubber Room" Agreement RevisitedThree Month Later

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The UFT , with much fanfare and against the wishes of the vast majority of teachers in the "Teacher Reassignment Center " made an...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Changes In My Favorite Blog List

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It is one month into the new school year and it is time for editing my favorite blogs list. Deletions: Education in Texas - Just not rel eve...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

Would You Want A Novice Surgeon Or An Experienced Surgeon To Operate On You? For The DOE The Answer Is Obvious, The Novice Of Course!

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The DOE has started their public relations campaign to vilify the ATRs by saying that they were discarded because of their lack of ability....
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

My Recommendations To Tweed For Reducing The Budget Without Affecting The Classroom

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New York City is facing a serious fiscal crises and Bloomberg has asked for cuts of $580 million for the next two years. This is serious ...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

The DOE Causes The ATR Crises,Then Has Their Flunkies Blame The Teacher.

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The newspapers are full of how it will cost up to 74 million dollars to pay teachers, who no fault of their own, have been excessed and are...
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