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Thursday, April 24, 2014

4-24-14 Ed Notes Online

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Teachers Unite Meeting Saturday, noon at Ya-Ya
I can't make the TU meeting due to the MORE meeting (morecaucusnyc General Meeting Sat. 4/26) I am an original TU member. I just don't have the time to get involved deeply in the work they do ... I am more focused right now on the work MORE is doing in the union and the work Change the Stakes is doing on testing. But the work Teachers Unite does is very important. This Saturday they are focusing i


Where is the Right Wing on the Charter Takeover of Local Education?
How interesting that the right opposes common core because they see it as mandates from the federal government but ignores parent trigger laws and the charter school movement, which are more invasive takeovers of local education control - by both government fiat (see NYState Cuomo backed charter give-away law removing mayoral authority to charge rent or deny space in public schools.)On the surface
Eva Moskowitz/Success Academy Once Again Prove It's About Real Estate, not Children
Today's reports at Chalkbeat point to the phony show Eva put on yesterday about gaining space for her 3 poor little denied charters. Even the usually fawning press looked through the cracks to see that there were actually negotiations going on while Eva openly lied to say they were not.What the press is not getting is that what Eva is really complaining about is that she is not getting the 3 hand-
4-23-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Shades of the NYSUT Split: Cuomo Aims to Avert 3rd Party Challenge by Undermining Working Family Party...the fact that the party’s activists and unions are not currently on the same page means, at the very least, a challenge from the left could get as messy for them as it is for Cuomo ... Does the party exist primarily for the purposes of contracts and pensions, or for the broader