Teachers Unite: Countdown to Summer
Countdown to SummerJune 2014 You're invited! Celebrate Summer at Teachers Unite's Ice Cream Social! Friday, June 27th, 4-6pmStuyvesant ParkNew York, NY Ice cream & carnival games provided by Milk, Not Jails Milk, Not Jails is seeking to revitalize and invest in NY's agricultural economy as a model alternative to the prison economy All are welcome! < Please RSVP Here on Eve
John Thompson at The Chalkface Expores the Subtleties of the Tenure Battle
Something tells me...that getting rid of our due process rights won’t be a promising tactic for recruiting and retaining new teacher talent..... Without seniority, this school closure mania gives districts a Get Out of Jail Free Card – they can commit age discrimination at will.....Obamacare might now be the best education reform of his administration. .. John ThompsonSome more great points from J
Why MORE? Vergara Tenure Decision, Eva Charter Expansion, UFT/AFT Tepid Responses
It will take an army to defeat ed deform. The UFT actually has a potential army through its large (but shrinking, and due to shrink more) membership (108,000 contract vote ballots were sent out to working UFT members) but wants to keep it defanged because an army with teeth may turn on the leadership.There is much hang-wringing over the California tenure decision, though it may well be overturned.
Vergara Tenure Commentary: High Crime Areas Due to Ineffective Police?
Police and firemen could be next. Let's say the same parents in the Vergara case claimed that crime was higher in their neighborhoods BECAUSE the police in their communities were all off probation. We could avoid blaming centuries of racism, discrimination, poverty exploitation of immigrants etc... blame crime on the police.And their unions / civil service job protections.... Their goal is to make
6-12-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: Anti-Tenure People Try to Have it Both Ways...flaws in reasoning... were in full bloom from the minute Judge Treu announced that court was in session. How else to explain the paradox by which teacher tenure laws apply to the state’s wealthiest school districts and its poorest, but only violate the civil rights of students in the latter? Or how about the related and even paradoxier