Sunday, May 11, 2014

How Could The Union Throw The ATRs Under The Bus For An Inferior Contract?

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Reading the education blogs, my emails and speaking to many teachers as I rotate through the schools weekly, the overwhelming sentiment...
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Friday, May 09, 2014

The Bloomberg Era "Gotcha System" Against Teachers Is Evident In The DOE/UFT Contract.

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Its interesting how UFT President Michael Mulgrew, and Chancellor Carmen Farina really like each other and an out...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2014

The Union Agrees To A Teacher Caste System.

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Last night the UFT released the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) and has officially descended into the cesspool of c...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2014

The Tentative Salary Schedule For The New Contract.

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Here is the tentative salary schedule for selected grades wiith the new contract. Scale...... Present ......Fa...
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Sunday, May 04, 2014

A Contract That Michael Bloomberg Would Be Proud Of.

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The UFT and the union-friendly progressive Mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio agreed to a nine year contract ...
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Friday, May 02, 2014

How Do The Raises Work In The New Contract?

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The nine year contract between the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the City was finalized yesterday and ...
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Thursday, May 01, 2014

Our Union Stabbed The ATRs In The Back.

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Well our wonderful union apparently did it again! An inferior contract with raises of 10% for 7 years or approxim...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Is Our Union Agreeing To An Inferior Contract?

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In yesterday's New York Daily News the paper published an article that claimed that the City and UFT are cl...
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Sunday, April 27, 2014

Chancellor Carmen Farina's First Four Months Have Been Disappointing.

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The first four months of Carmen Farina's tenure as Chancellor of the New York City Schools has been very disa...
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Friday, April 25, 2014

How The DOE Budgeting Process Forces Principals To Cut Corners At The Expense Of Their Students.

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Under the Bloomberg Administration there were many changes to the decades old Board of Education. Most of them bad. ...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Finally, At Least One Journalist Got It Right About Why Principals Won't Hire ATRs - Its About The Money!

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I was pleasantly surprised when I read Charkbeat and saw the article Geoff Decker wrote about the contract negoti...
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Saturday, April 19, 2014

The City Is Hiding A Surplus Of Over $6 Billion According To Financial Guru Mel Levy.

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Under the Bloomberg years the City vastly understated revenues and overstated debt and always projected a defici...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Clueless Campbell Brown Lacks Common Sense.

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In the New York Post today the clueless Campbell Brown wrote an article called A 'common sense' NYC teac...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Our Retirement System Is As Good As It Gets.

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One of the major perks that we educators have is the retirement system that goes a long way to provide us with life...
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

The Bloomberg Education Legacy Is One Of Failure.

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With the advent of a new administration who has struggled to change the educational landscape, its time to look ba...
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Friday, April 11, 2014

The Reason Why ATRs Should Be Put Back Into The Classroom. It Helps Student Academic Achievement.

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The Wall Street Journal's education reporter, Leslie Brody wants to talk to ATRs about their situation and wh...
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Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Why Teacher Due Process Rights Are Important.

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  There's little question that there has been a coordinated attack on teacher "due process rights"   State...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Why Aren't Administrators Being Brought Up On Corporal Punishment Charges For Their "Sit & Stare" Policy?

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Thousands of parents rightly refused to have their children sit for the poorly-devised and high-stakes NYS testi...
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