NYSUT Election Update: Message to Revive: Now that you broke it, you own it
Well, Revive certainly broke NYSUT with the claim that the Stronger Together leadership wasn't militant enough -- one very big joke. So now they own it.And Revive will come under the very same attacks they used on Stronger Together starting ---- yesterday. Even with 100% of the Unity block voting for him, Revive's Martin Messner won with 53.7% of the weighted vote while Stronger Together incumbent
NYSUT Election Update: Julie Cavanagh Defeats Mulgrew Outside NYC With 52.3% of Vote
Michael Mulgrew and Julie Cavanagh replayed the 2013 UFT Election here at NYSUT for an at large Board of Directors seat. Mulgrew garnered 197,081 weighted votes while Cavanagh received 93,830. Now take out the 111,525 NYC Unity votes (I think we can safely assume that no NYC Unity voter would vote against Mulgrew in an open ballot) and Mulgrew is left with 85,556. Cavanagh keeps her 93,830 . The
Lauren Cohen Stands Up to Bully Tests and Bully Unity Slugs
Yesterday morning I watched from the audience as Lauren Cohen, a petite young woman from the UFT MORE caucus, got up and addressed the NYSUT Representative Assembly as a candidate. When Lauren mentioned the UFT-Unity Loyalty oath, my 800 brothers and sisters from UFT-Unity tried to drown her voice with loud boos. The moderator had to get up and explain that it was not in the best traditions of pub
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Today: Don't Tread On Educators Workshop in Brooklyn, 5-8PM
Are you an educator who: Feels their career has been derailed? Bullied in the workplace? Overloaded and underappreciated? Are you burnt out?.....COME GET FUELED UP! You are not alone. We are taking back our careers.
Murry Bergtraum Principal Lottie "Neutron Bomb" Almante....
...can clear a building faster than flatulence from a herd of cattle. Look at my school, Murry Bergtraum High School. Nearly 1/3 of the staff split because of the principal. I call her “Lottie Neutron” (as the neutron bomb kills people put leaves buildings in tact). ... John Elfrank-Dana, Chapter LeaderJohn has been vigilant as a chapter leader.Dear Bergtraum Community,Attached are the results of
4-6-14 Ed Notes Online Week
Ed Notes Online: On DIscontinue - MORE's Paul Hogan - Mr. de Blasio: Tear Up This BlacklistMy fellow MOREista retiree Paul Hogan urges you to sign a petition against the DOE blacklist, where any principal has the power to ruin a non-tenured teacher's entire career with a swoop of a computer stroke. Paul is another outstanding MORE activist, thoughtful, analytical, smart -- the kind of person MORE