Friday, November 13, 2015

Why Aren't Parents Being Held Accountable For Their Child's Absenteeism?

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The New York Post published an article that showed that many Elementary and Middle School students were chronically ab...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

The College Acceptance Rate Increase Hides The Fact That Most NYC High School Graduates Are Not College Ready.

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The Bill De Blasio and Carmen Farina Administration were greeted with some good news that there was a bump upwar...
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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

The Media Bias Against The "Opt Out" Movement.

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If you read the various newspaper editorials, they would have you believe that the growing anger against the Commo...
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Saturday, November 07, 2015

The Peaceful Classroom Needs Administrative Support.

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Far too often school administrators blame the classroom teacher for the chaos they observe when they look through t...
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Thursday, November 05, 2015

My "Got To Go" List.

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After reading about the Fort Greene Success Academy's "got to go" list, I decided to make up my own " got to go...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Eva Moscowitz Wants Special Treatment For Her Schools.

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Last week was not a good week for Eva Moscowitz and her Harlem Success Academy Schools.  First. there was the PB...
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Sunday, November 01, 2015

The Real Problems In The New York City Public Schools.

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In the New York Daily News today, Sol Stern wrote an opinion piece on the problems with the New York City Publi...
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Saturday, October 31, 2015

Halloween Special - Horror Stories From The ATR Pool

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Today is Halloween and  its time to reprint my Halloween special from last year on the various horror figures in the form of administrators,...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

The Failure Of Our Union To Make Life Better For Their Members. Part VI, Lack Of Democracy And Transparency.

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In the final chapter of my six part serious on our union leadership's failure to improve the working conditi...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

THE NAEP Results Show That Common Core Doesn't Work.

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For the first time in twenty-five years the NAEP scores went down or remained flat for both Math and Reading natio...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

More New York State Parents Find Common Core Harmful To Their Children Then Support It.

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A New York State newspaper, the Journal News in the Hudson Valley found that more parents found Common Core har...
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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Fair Student Funding And The ATRs.

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During the October information meetings the UFT leadership would repeat time and again that the Fair Student Fun...
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Friday, October 23, 2015

The Field Assassins Are Comimg!

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October is the time when the rotating ATRs are introduced to their field supervisors (assassins).  For the last ...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

The Failure Of Our Union To Make Life Better For Their Members. Part V, PINI Principals.

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One of the more obvious changes when Michael Mulgrew replaced Randi Weingarten as President of the UFT was that ...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

The Misleading New York Post Editorial About Charter School Teachers.

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In Monday's New York Post the Editorial Board wrote a misleading and largely false editoria l on...
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Sunday, October 18, 2015

The Real Losers When It Came To The Contract, Members On Unpaid Leave. Then And Now.

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Back in June of 2014 when the union and the City agreed to a contract there were winners and losers.  Of all the...
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Friday, October 16, 2015

Do Charter Schools Outperform Public Schools? Apparently Not.

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I was reading the New York Post opinion page and another so-called expert claimed that charter schools outperform publi...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015

The Failure Of Our Union To Make Life Better For Our Members. Part IV, The ATRs.

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One of the most damaging sellouts that Randi Weingarten and Michael Mulgrew engineered was the creation of the A...
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Monday, October 12, 2015

Do All Tier IV Teachers Get The Same Benefits? Yes But....

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The vast majority of veteran teachers in the New York City schools are under the Tier IV pension plan and there ...
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Can A Developing Rating Terminate A Teacher? Yes, If You Are Not Tenured!

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In a previous post a commenter asked if a developing rating can resulted in 3020-a charges for incompetence.  Of...
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