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Monday, July 29, 2013

NYC Educator: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Bloomberg?

NYC Educator: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Bloomberg?:

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Bloomberg?

My buddy Chaz just wrote a piece explaining why New York is not like Detroit.  This is a response to a blog from Ed in the Apple, represented in Gotham Schools as a "union blogger." Ed in the Apple certainly is a union blogger, and he supports absolutely everything UFT leadership supports. As far as I can determine, that's his job.

This is the same union blogger who fervently supported the 2005 contract, the one that dumped thousands of teachers into the ATR pool, made it impossible to grieve letters in file for factual inaccuracy, and sent teachers to patrol hallways and bathrooms.

If I'm not mistaken, this union blogger raised not a peep when we supported the disaster that is mayoral control, not once, but twice. I do not recall this union blogger saying one word against the new junk science evaluations that will cause UFT teachers to be fired based solely on test scores. Nor can I recall this union blogger saying one word against Reformy John King unilaterally dictating the particulars on NYC's junk science plan. I don't remember this union blogger raising a peep when we managed to enable this system without even procurin