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Friday, May 9, 2014

5-9-14 Ed Notes Online

Ed Notes Online:







Class Size Sellout as UFT Contract/Farina Endorse Continued High Class Sizes
Mulgrew claims to be against ed deform are smoke as the contract clearly supports the ed deform emphasis on PD while disparaging class size reform.Video of Farina comments on class size below. I'm home today and have many posts to go so take your time and read them all. With Ravitch having her knee replaced today  - did ed deformers CAP her?, I have to make up the difference. And good luck Diane.

A Parent Exposes New NYSUT (Revive) Pro-Cuomo Leadership Phony Militancy at Lake Placid
The most obvious giveaway that NYSUT had completely sold out came when the NYSUT photographer wanted to take a picture of a child who was wearing a sign that said, I "heart" public school, but he wouldn't take a picture of the child's brother whose sign said, No Mo Cuomo. The photographer explicitly stated that NYSUT wouldn't publish anything against Cuomo!.. NYC Parent, Change the Stake


Harris Lirtzman Sees Ugliness of Unity Machine as he Thanks James Eterno
I came out of that DA meeting with an overwhelming feeling of self-satisfied and corrupted power that is prepared to roll over anything that gets in its way.... this is a vicious crew that will not stand for the slightest difference of opinion and we better recognize that....as still a relative "newbie" to the process it was, shall we say, a sort of "road to Damascus" awakening


5-8-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Elfrank-Dana Slams Mulgrew on DADear President Mulgrew,I was surprised by your insinuation that I am against people's right to vote when I objected to retirees voting last night. Are you going to let me vote for my District Rep instead of appointing her/him? Are you going require high school VP to be elected only by high school members instead of having their votes disenfranchised