MORE on Opt-Out Day and Ravitch on Opt-Out and Change the Stakes
Having a group I belong to and helped found described by Diane Ravitch no less as "one of the best organized" is shocking. But given that I leave most of the work to all the other amazing people I wrote about on Friday, it works for me.One of the best organized groups functions in New York state. It is called Change the Stakes. .... Diane Ravitch
CTS has been very involved in opting out of tests for parents and some of the members have been doing so. CTS has helped guide people through the process and build solidarity.
MORE, closely allied with CTS, put out a great statement today on National Opt-Out Day.
Breaking: UFT Doesn't Announce Election Committee, Indicating Postponement
Evaluation deal and mid-winter break days may be factor in delay.Tonight's UFT Executive Board meeting was pretty much drop-dead date for the UFT elections to take place within the rough time-frame that they have been run in the past: process begins in early January, petitions due in mid-February, ballots go out in March with vote count around April 1 (appropriate). The UFT constitution says they must be sometime in the spring, which ends around June 20. Is the Unity caucus leadership thinking they would fare better with ballots going out in June when the lost Feb. vacation days would become a memory and whatever eval deal they make would have been spun any which way the leadership wants?
Before anything can take place, an election committee must be formed, usually with people from the opposition