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Sunday, October 21, 2012

NYC Educator: Teacher Union Prez Auditions for NY Post Editorial Board

NYC Educator: Teacher Union Prez Auditions for NY Post Editorial Board:


Teacher Union Prez Auditions for NY Post Editorial Board

Joseph Del Grosso, head of the Newark Teachers Union, is endorsing a new contract that entails merit pay, value-added measures, and which is "secretive about financial details," though we know it hinges on $100 mill in Facebook bucks, which we don't know to be renewable.

Del Grosso is portrayed in the article as someone who's moved from a young firebrand to someone with a completely different position-- heroic by the writer's highly uninformed point of view, but largely sell-out by mine. More disturbing, perhaps, is this quote:

“The teachers who come in early and stay late,