Chaz's School Daze

Occasionally, I will reprint some of my very best blog posts and in this reprint I will post how you can stop yo...

One of the little noticed aspects of the DOE/UFT contract is the decision to dump teachers who decide to return to tea...

If you have been following the ICEUFT blog , James Eterno effectively dissected the section of the 2014 contract...

Sometime during the tenure of Joel Klein, a nameless bureaucrat at Tweed realized that high schools could save on ...

In yesterday's New York Daily News there was an article about parents protesting against the new Principal Monika Garg.  You can...

Ex Principal Minerva Zanca, who was removed from the troubled and struggling Pan American International High Sc...

I have written how Bill de Blasio's ill-advised decision to allow students to bring cellphones into the scho...

Reading the various opposition blogs, I was surprised that the Unity caucus actually criticized MORE/NAC and Solidarity f...

One of the most damaging policy directive by the Bill de Blasio Administration is allowing students to bring cel...

I know of two teachers who were hired provisionally at the beginning of the school year and rated "highly e...

Back in the Bloomberg years it was common practice to put unqualified educators in as a Superintendent, simply because of w...

The Achilles heel in working in the 94 Renewal Schools for teachers is the extra work expected of them.  There is countless hours of us...

I have been told that the DOE and UFT are so pleased with the ATR agreement that the.agreement will continue, essentially unchanged, ...

Last week UFT President Michael (don't call me Mikey) Mulgrew told a Queens Parent Advisory Board that the g...

The headline in today's New York Post, print edition, was about the so-called DOE super Principal, Michael Wil...

I have been contacted by a teacher in Brooklyn who told me he was removed from the ATR pool and reassigned while being charged with us...

Late May and Early June are known as the best months of the year as the weather warms and teachers see the goal line t...

My colleagues at MORE are mighty unhappy with my stance on their "social justice" plank and have made great...

One of the most overlooked aspects of teaching at a renewal school is how potentially dangerous it is to be a te...

I received my online edition of the "Organizer" and I was struck how the author, a "Unity" retiree ...