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E4E rescinds its invitation to teacher who disrupted event | GothamSchools

E4E rescinds its invitation to teacher who disrupted event | GothamSchools

E4E rescinds its invitation to teacher who disrupted event

A veteran teacher who disrupted an Educators 4 Excellence panel last month has learned that he isn’t welcome at the group’s future events.

Stuart Kaplan, a nine-year teacher at High School for Law and Public Service in Brooklyn, joined Educators 4 Excellence because he believed that the teaching profession could be improved by more dialogue.

“I feel that there needs to be discussions between educators. It was my hope that they wanted to foster a real conversation,” Kaplan said of E4E. He signed a pledge required of all members to agree to certain policy positions help by E4E and he attended several events, which are closed to the general public.

But he publicly disavowed his membership last month after a blow-up with founder Evan Stone at a teacher