MORE In the Media: Lupkin, Wainer and Cavanagh in The Chief
“While there were clear efforts made in this contract about improving communication and collaboration, too much has been left on the table,” Ms. Cavanagh said. “I stand up with my chapter as we continue to urge the UFT and the city to go back to that table.” By DAN ROSENBLUM A couple of days before about 2,000 delegates voted May 7 to recommend for ratification the United Federation of Teachers’s
UFT Contract: When the Unity Spin Doesn't Play
My District Rep spun her shit at a school with surrounding schools attending – big crowd – listened to her avoid health issues and baited retro pay – lots of very mad people leaving the building bewildered – all voting NO – DR was like watching FOX News.... An Ed Notes ReaderMaybe the UFT is rushing to get the vote done before their hordes of people racing to the schools turn off even more people.
NYC Educator: When Will Unity See Its Berlin Wall Fall?
I say without any reservations that there is an illness in Unity. Presently, its members sense only the "stillness in the wind" and they think it will always be so. They think they can stand without the support of the rank and file. The rank and file of today will become the retirees of tomorrow and many are intensely unhappy. I say Unity is living in a house of cards. They may laugh
UFT Contract: Factor in de Blasio Sellout on Charters - With UFT Support
That brings the total amount his administration plans to spend on charters in FY2015 to nearly $1.3 billion, up from $1.06 billion this year.... Capital NY If you don't think the ATR stuff in the contract has nothing to do with the "Big Plan" to chop down a third of union teachers, you must be "smoking something" - to use a phrase our former union chief Sandra Feldman used when
Petition the UFT for a mass meeting to explain the contract's impact on ATRs
we wish to have a full enumeration of all actions that would constitute "problematic behavior". .. ATR Stuff is coming in fast and furious. This popped up. UFT claims it is having mass borough meetings and sending its people into schools to explain the contract. Jeff and I wrote about the "problematic behavior" issue. If the UFT/Unity leadership had a good history of really fi
Newark Ed Update: Round One: Baraka v. Jeffries, Round Two: Baraka v. Christie
I urge my NYC pals who will be voting on the contract to look closely at the Cami Anderson "Newark One" charter giveaway plan and the consequences for NY Teachers over the next 5 years. Randi sold the teachers of Newark a contract a few years ago. I'm betting the UFT contract contains a hidden mine field - why? Because they always do. Our correspondent in Newark has recovered from the wi
5-14-14 Ed Notes Online: Tonight: Laurel Sturt's "Dante's Inferno" - Reading and Discussion
Ed Notes Online: Tonight: Laurel Sturt's "Dante's Inferno" - Reading and Discussion: Tonight: Laurel Sturt's "Dante's Inferno" - Reading and DiscussionReads like a Steven King horror story.I started reading Laurel Sturt's "Dante's Inferno," her story of 10 years in hell in the NYC school system under the Bloomberg years, on a beach in Florida in February. There were