Wednesday, December 30, 2009

My New Year's Wish List

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It is time for me to post my New Year's wish list for 2010. While I truly hope that many of them come true, I will not be holding my b...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Santa Claus And The Department Of Education - How The DOE "Grinch" Terminated Him

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In the DOE's never ending quest to bring in "newbie teachers" , many of them the two year wonders from "Teach For Ameri...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

My Response To Mayor Bloomberg's Speech On "Rubber Room" Overcrowding, the ATR Crises, And Tenue. Part 3: Tenure

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This is the last part of my responses on Mayor Bloomberg's Washington D.C. speech on the "rubber room' , ATRs . and tenure. ...
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

My Response To Mayor Bloomberg's Speech On The "Rubber Room" Overcrowding, The ATR Crises, And Tenure Part 2: The ATR Crises

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The ATR crises was created by Chancellor Joel Klein and his non-educator cronies in a futile attempt to force highly paid senior teachers o...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

My Response To Mayor Bloomberg's Speech On How To Solve the "Rubber Room" Overcrowding, The ATR Crises, & Tenure. Part 1: The "Rubber Room" Problem

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We all know how Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein wants to solve the "rubber room" overcrowding, the ATR crises, and ma...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Michael Mulgrew, You Talk A Good Game. However, I Am Still Waiting For Real Action By The Union

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I was impressed with the tone of our acting President's letter to his members and his responses to Michael Bloomberg's onslaugh...
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Wednesday, December 09, 2009

Bloomberg & Klein's "Final Solution" - The Extermination Of The Large Traditional High Schools

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There is no longer any pretense on what Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein wants to do with the large traditional high school...
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Friday, December 04, 2009

Shame On Tweed For Closing Down Jamaica High School - Shame, Shame, Shame

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It has finally happened! Chancellor Joel Klein and his non-educator flunkies at Tweed have finally succeeded in destroying one of the great...
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Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Bloomberg & Klein Declares War On Teachers - When Will Our Union Fight Back?

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For all you teachers who were waiting for the 8% raises in the next contract, dream on. It is now very obvious that Mayor Bloomberg and Jo...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Daily News Editorial Gets It Wrong Again. What Else Is New?

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In today's New York Daily News editorial their clueless editorial staff once again gets it wrong when it comes to the New York City Pub...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Mike Mulgrew, Just Say No To "Givebacks" And Demand The City "Pattern"

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It certainly appears that our union have again made some terrible decisions when trying to negotiate with Michael Bloomberg & Joel Klei...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Principals Are Being Informed That They Do Not Have To Approve Payment For A Teacher Who Sees Their Union Lawyer After Tweed Files 3020-a Charges.

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The DOE has found yet another way to make life a living hell for reassigned teachers by not approving the teacher a paid official business ...
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Finally, A Teacher Sues The DOE When Falsely Accused Of Sexual Misconduct

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Over the eight years of Joel Klein's tenure as Chancellor of the New York City's Department Of Education (DOE) the central bureaucra...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Bloomberg Wants More Education Cuts. Where Will The Cuts Come From? Just Don't Expect Them From Tweed.

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Today Mayor Bloomberg requested that the Department Of Education (DOE) cut the 23 billion dollar education budget by 5.5% according to the N...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Where Does The Money Go When Teachers Either Settle With Or The Arbitrator Awards Money To The DOE?

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One of the questions that reassigned teachers ask and get no answers from the union is what happens to the money that the teacher either agr...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

Tweed's "Children Last" Program Continues As They Layoff 503 School Aides While Giving Millions To High Priced Consultants

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Tweed went ahead and laid off 503 school aides starting Monday. These school aides are invaluable to the schools, especially in the poor...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Updated Statistics Of The PIP+ Program Are Now Available & They Are As Bad As The First Year Numbers

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The union official in charge of the PIP+ process has updated her numbers for the school year 2008-09 and found that of the 46 teachers who t...
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Sunday, November 08, 2009

Why Is Our Union Not Telling The Members At The Schools What They Know About How Administrators Target Teachers For Incompetence?

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Over the last few years the DOE was increasingly frustrated in getting arbitrators to terminate teachers charged with incompetence. To try ...
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