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Hardcore Uft Contract Training Committee
Are you sick of going to your district rep monthly meetings and getting the UFT jive stuffed down your throats while you have little or no input?Like not getting to talk about how your principal violates the contract daily and you are left helpless?We have decided to follow in the footsteps of my esteemed colleague, George Schmidt of Substance and Chicago fame, and organize Hardcore Contract Train
Portelos Update: Supreme Court Rules Against DOE Refusal to Recognize Him as Chapter Leader
New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) filed a Motion to Confirm the arbitration. Today we just found that Supreme Court Judge Joan B. Lobis confirmed the arbitration award. The DOE lawyers will have a chance to appeal and most likely they will try.... This win should set precedent for all targeted chapter leaders. If someone thinks they can attack a chapter leader and wrongly accuse them so they
Scum of the Earth Tim Daly Pulls the Race Card
“This is the first African-American leader of the State Education Department,” he said. “And to watch him be shouted at and insulted by largely white audiences in the suburbs is discomforting and it is jarring that, not only has it happened, but it has happened repeatedly.” ... Tim Daly, TNTPIs there a more insidious operation than Tim Daly's scam organization The New Teacher Project? I won't go
MORE Update: Come out to the Delegate Assembly to Take a Stand against the New Evaluation System!
There is no question in my mind that the MORE initiatives and organizing efforts have pushed the UFT leadership -- but I view recent moves as an attempt to co-opt, not a real change in policy. Support for common core? Check. Support for teacher ratings based on VAM? Check. And so on. It's all about lousy and incompetent implementation, blah, blah, blah.At the first MORE meeting in September a new
11-17-13 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Have Fun With MOREistas at the Holiday Party, Dec. 6Thank goodness. A party instead of a meeting in December. Here is your chance if you haven't touched base with us to eat, drink and be merry. And you don't even have to say the magic words: social justice. But you can bitch all you want about the UFT, Advance, ed eval, Randi, Mulgrew, etc. Or not. Just have some fun -- even if yo