Monday, June 29, 2009

The DOE's Infamous Teacher Performance Unit Has Developed An "Action Plan" To Help Principals Terminate Teachers

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Despite a severe recession and budget crunch the DOE has allocated 1.2 million dollars to hire a bunch of lawyers and retired Principals to ...
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Thursday, June 25, 2009

You Didn't Think Getting The Two Days Off Before Labor Day Were Free? Did You? Not With Randi Doing The Negotiating.

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Unless you are living under a rock, the UFT and the Bloomberg administration came to an agreement that eroded "newbie teacher"...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

Is Randi Wiengarten's Farewell Present A New Contract?

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There are persistent rumors that Randi Weingarten has made a deal with Mayor Bloomberg on our next contract that starts on November 1, 2009...
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Saturday, June 20, 2009

The Principals Are Effectively Telling The ATRs To "Kiss My Ass" As They RefuseTo Hire Them

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Last Tuesday many an ATR was invited to the citywide ATR job fair held in Washington Heights in Manhattan. Despite a few hundred ATRs showi...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

The Bloomberg & Klein Love Affair With The Small Schools Have Resulted In The Destruction Of The Large Neighborhood Schools - What Else Is New?

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All of a sudden the news media is bringing up the fact that the large neighborhood high schools are suffering as the influx of themed small ...
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Monday, June 15, 2009

Senior Teachers Beware, The DOE Is Trying To Terminate You

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As the end of the year approaches, most teachers look forward to the summer off as they try to unwind from the stress of the school year. H...
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Saturday, June 13, 2009

Where Is The SCI Investigation Of Chancellor Klein?

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In the bizarro world of the DOE any physical contact between students and teachers is presumed to be corporal and/or sexual in nature. In...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

The New York State Math Test For The Middle School - When A Level 1 Student Becomes A Level 3 Student

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I usually complain about the DOE and to a lesser degree, the UFT in my posts. However, this post is reserved for the ridiculous travesty o...
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Monday, June 08, 2009

My Report Card On How Tweed Has Failed The Students & Teachers In The Classroom

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Now that I voted online for the UFT election survey of how well the NYC Department Of Education (DOE) did in helping the classroom, it is n...
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Thursday, June 04, 2009

Why A Teacher Should Never Accept The Phony PIP+ Program - Unless The Teacher Wants To Be Terminated

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For teachers who have been targeted for incompetence, the procedure by the Principal is to first give "U" observations the first y...
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Monday, June 01, 2009

The City Has Allocated Scarce Buiding Funds To Help The Charter Schools While The Public Schools Suffer Budget Cuts

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To my shock and horror I read a New York Post article that the City has quietly made available 3.8 billion dollars for Charter School const...
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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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