Sunday, March 30, 2014

Crain's Joins The Media Bashing Of ATRs With A Highly Inaccurate Editorial.

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Crain's NY Business has joined the newspaper bashing of ATRs by writing an editorial on why the ATRs should be ...
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Friday, March 28, 2014

Is The DOE Giving Schools More Money To Hire "F" Status Administratrors To Observe Teachers?

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I was at a school this week where the Principal informed the staff that the requirements under the Teacher Evaluati...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Will Mayor De Blasio Practice What He Preaches On Retaining Good Teachers In The NYC Classroom?

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Mayor Bill de Blasio was interviewed by WNYC-FM about the New York City public schools and said that he will mak...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

As The Polar Vortex Finally Leaves Will A New Spring Finally Dawn On The DOE?

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The end of a brutal and snowy winter is finally in sight and by week's end spring will appear and stay with us ...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

The Truth About ATRs That THe Media Deliberately Fails To Publish.

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 Its starting again, the one-sided media onslaught of the ATR pool by again bringing up the so called viabl...
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Friday, March 21, 2014

The Union Needs To Take A Stand Against The Unfair ATR Field Supervisor Observations.

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Previously, I wrote an article claiming that the DOE took an ATR field supervision pilot program in Brooklyn an...
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

What's A Teacher's Monetary Value Really Worth?

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Many people who have little clue how education works thinks that the teaching profession is just  "glorified babysitti...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Don't Let School Administrators Make ATRs A Scapegoat For Their Student Behavior Problems.

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In too many schools the administration, lead by Principal looks the other way when students misbehave.  In some of t...
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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Chancellor Carmen Farina Must Clean House At The DOE...Now!

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Chancellor Carmen Farina has stumbled her way through the first 75 days of her tenure.  She experienced a "C...
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Friday, March 14, 2014

The Contract, Teacher Retention, And The Upcominig Teacher Shortage.

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Lost in the million dollar propaganda blitz by Eva Moskowitz and her allies in the Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo is the c...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Has The De Blasio Administration Found A Solution To The Retroactive Pay Issue?

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There is no secret that Mayor Bill de Blasio was saddled with 152 expired contracts as Mayor Bloomberg irresponsibly refus...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The Media Only Cares About The Elite 194 And Ignore The Many Severely Disabled Students At The Public School Who Will Be Displaced.

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If you read all the media outlets in the Metropolitan area, one would think that the Eva Moskowitz's charter schools were taking ov...
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Sunday, March 09, 2014

Where Is The DOE's Change of Tone? It Seems To Be The Same Old Song To Me.

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When Mayor Bill de Blasio replaced the Bloomberg Administration, Michael Mulgrew claimed at the delegate assembly...
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Friday, March 07, 2014

To Chancellor Camen Farina. How About Placing Eva Moskowitz's Schools In The Trailers?

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Now that Chancellor Carmen Farina is trying to find a location to place one of Eva Moskowitz's charter school...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Its Starting To Look Like The End Of The Useless ATR Rotation System.

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This week selected guidance counselors have received e-maIls from the DOE asking them if they want to be placed in one sch...
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Monday, March 03, 2014

Schools Who Hire Teach For America "Newbies" Are Not Doing What's Right For Their Students.

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 Many of the NYC public schools and almost all the charter schools hire "Teach For America" (TFA) "two y...
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Saturday, March 01, 2014

The Dark Side Of The Charter School Story.

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The airwaves and newspapers are being bombarded with pro charter school commercials about how important they are for...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Why Common Core Cannot Work For Regents Science Under The Existing NYCDOE Policy.

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Its common knowledge that the New York State flawed roll out of the "Common Core" standards has resulted in so...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Ed Deformer Cami Anderson's "One Newark Plan" Is A Way To Dismantle The Public School System.

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Ex-Tweedie and District 79 teacher destroyer , Cami Anderson, the State appointed Superintendent who now heads the Newa...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Teachers Who Work With High Needs Students Are Screwed Under The Flawed Teacher Evaluation System.

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We all suspected that teachers who work with disadvantaged students, minorities, English Language Learners, and Spe...
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