Friday, May 29, 2009

Will The Principals Really Hire The ATRs For Their Vacancies? - Rumors Are that The Principals Intend To Hide The Vacancies Until The Last Minute

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Because of the financial problems, Joel Klein apparently "cried uncle" and stopped the Principals from hiring the "newbie t...
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Monday, May 25, 2009

What Mayor Mike & Chancellor Joel Really Want For The New York City Public Schools

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The New York Post, the media's propaganda mouthpiece of Bloomberg and Klein have coined a slogan "City Schools City Rules" t...
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Friday, May 22, 2009

How The DOE Violates Our Country's "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" Legal Foundation When It Comes To The International Teachers They Recruit

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One of the strengths of our country's democratic system is the presumption that a person is "innocent until proven guilty" le...
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Monday, May 18, 2009

Separate And Unequal Education In NYC - Thanks To Mayor Bloomberg & Chancellor Klein

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In 1954 the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the separate but equal policy for schools throughout the nation. Now 55 years la...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

The Three Stooges Brag How The NYC Teacher Salary Has Risen Significantly. How Do We Compare To Long Island?

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I can only snicker when I hear the three stooges, Mayor Mike (Moe), Chancellor Klein (Larry), and UFT President Randi Weingarten (Curly) t...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

For Reassigned Teachers The Union Wants Them To Remain Clueless And Quiet

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It is very traumatic when a teacher is reassigned from his or her school for frivolous or minor incidents. What is worse is that our union ...
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Sunday, May 10, 2009

Where Was Bloomberg & Klein When PS 177 Reopened?

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With much fanfare Mayor Michael Bloomberg showed up along with the head of the Archdioceses when the parochial High School, St. Francis P...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

"The Needs Of The Many Outweights The Needs Of The Few" ."Or The One" - Except At The DOE Where "Children Last" Continues

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In honor of the new Star Trek movie, I decided to use a quote from Star Trek's "Wraith Of Khan" where a dying Spock finall...
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Sunday, May 03, 2009

What Really Happens To The Reassigned Teacher?

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There is some mystery on what actually happens to the reassigned teacher that finds him or herself sent to the Teacher Reassignment Center (...
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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Why Doesn't The Union Go After The PINI Principals Otherwise Known As The Principals From Hell?

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Every time the New York Teacher newspaper comes out the union spotlights a Principal In Need Of Improvement ( PINI ). However, the union do...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

What Characteristics Make A Quality Teacher? According To The DOE It Is Not What You Think.

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Time and again the DOE and their media puppets, the New York Daily News and New York Post, rant about how the New York City Public Schools ...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

NYC Fails To Close The Education Gap Between Whites And Minorities. Chancellor Klein Blames The Teachers & Principals Not His Failed Education Policy

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In a report by a management consulting group, McKinsey & Company, found that the academic gap between white and minoritygroups persis...
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

What Happend To Student Enrichment? There is None Because Of Tweed's Mindless Emphasis On Test Prep, Test Prep, & More Test Prep

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When I was a student in the NYC Public Schools I looked forward to my teachers veering off curriculum occasionally and giving enrichment act...
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Friday, April 17, 2009

The DOE's Unfair Comparison Between The Charter Schools And The Public Schools

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Time and again the New York Daily News and New York Post praise how Charter Schools are giving the minority children in the poorest neighbor...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Randi & Joel Do It Again - The UFT Secretly Dropped Their Age Discrimination Lawsuit When They Signed The Unenforceable ATR Agreement

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It appears once again Randi Weingarten and Joel Klein negotiated an agreement that resulted in the UFT members getting the short end of th...
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Saturday, April 11, 2009

The New York Post's Lovefest With The Bloomberg Administration On Education Reform

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Over the last two weeks you could not pick up the New York Post without an article or editorial trumpeting how the Bloomberg Administration...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

The "Rubber Rooms" Are Filling Up With Older Teachers And Randi's Lawyer Claims There Is No Age Discrimination

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Since my previous article on the age discrimination at the Queens Teacher' Reassignment Center ( TRC ). Things have been getting worse ...
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Saturday, April 04, 2009

Why Are The Principals Not Hiring The ATRs For The Classroom? Its About The Control Stupid!

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Once again our union was shocked that after negotiating an agreement with the DOE to give Principals a financial incentive to hire ATRs fo...
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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Tweed Just Continues To Spend More Money On Non-Educational Items While The Schools Suffer

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The City Controller, Bill Thompson found that the DOE has cost overruns of $700 million dollars for "goods & services" that,...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

The DOE Double Standard Continues As Tweed Allows An Accused Sexual Molester Assistant Principal To Be Around Students

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In the bizarre world of Kleinberg's DOE once again the double standard between Administrators and teachers rears its ugly head. The New...
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