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Friday, February 7, 2014

2-7-14 Ed Notes Online

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Newark Update: Cami Anderson Closes Schools While Still Engaging in Chris Christie-Like Thug Tactics
Newark parent leader arrested, jailed, after criticizing state plan to close schools....Before we get to that story there is this from a Newark teacher:Inclement Weather - Schools Closed February 5, 2014In the interest of the safety of our students, and due to hazardous weather conditions, all Newark Public Schools are CLOSED on Wednesday, February 5, 2014. All events, meetings and after school pr
Inside Buffalo: More Rumors on Rumore (Phil)
Even those trying to follow the NYSUT soap opera are emailing asking me wtf is going on because I seem to be nothing more than confusing them. But that is my job. Here is another dispatch from a credible source on the Buffalo Teachers Federation leader Phil Rumore's relationship with Dick Iannuzzi and why Rumore is leaning toward the Revive NYSUT/Mulgrew/UFT slate, which if you read some of my pos


2-5-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: The Battle for NYSUT: Iannuzzi was made in 2005 and unmade in 2014 - By the same peopleIt's like they just found any warm body to run for president of a 600,000 member union... NYSUT member on Karen Magee...it’s a once-in-a-lifetime chance for any one of NYSUT’s nearly half-million members to make a leadership run. Oh, except the endorsement of NYSUT’s dominant internal caucus has