Surrender Is Victory In The AFT/NYSUT/UFT World
Two points to make in the world of AFT/NYSUT/UFT politics:First a tweet from one of the UFT cronies who launched the challenge against NYSUT President Dick IannuzziMake some noise to save our services! Save our schools! pic.twitter.com/CLF6wjTPi1— Andy Pallotta (@AndyPallotta) January 29, 2014This was at the Public Employees Federation, Civil Service Employees Association and NYSCOPBA union rally
Another Randi Weingarten Dog And Pony Show
Just got home from a wonderful day of Regents grading to see this news:Union leaders as well as some lawmakers took turns bashing Gov. Andrew Cuomo for “privatizing” and “downsizing” human services while at the same time calling for him to throttle back plans to continue closing disability centers, psychiatric hospitals and prisons. “Keep your hands off our state workers,” Saratoga-area GOP Assemb
Two State of the Union Tweets
Because I knew there would @#$% like this: Not just how well they can fill in a bubble on a test...wait whose policy was Race to the TOp? #SOTU— Liza Featherstone (@lfeatherz) January 29, 2014I decided this:Couldn't decide - watch the SOTU or paint dry? Decided to go w/ the paint. Drying paint doesn't lie or bull@#$% you...— realitybasededucator (@perdidostschool) January 29, 2014
NYSED, Regents Squeeze The ELA Regents Exam Scores
A comment Pogue left on a post here at Perdido Street School about the outrage that is this year's ELA Regents exam:January 2012 English Regents = 45 conversion opportunities for a 75+ August 2013 English Regents = 35 conversion box opportunities for a 75+January 2014 English Regents = 30 conversion box opportunities for a 75+"The Squeeze" created by corrupt/lazy Regents personnel whose
1-28-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Regents Grading HellIf you're reading this post anytime around 7:30 AM when I had it scheduled to be posted, then you're reading it long after I left for my ELA Regents exam grading assignment.You see, the NYCDOE sent the teachers in my department to a school almost as far away from our school on the island of Manhattan as you can get without being:a) in the Bronxb) in the E