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Friday, June 27, 2014

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Fox 5 New York Brings Joel Klein Onto "News" Show To Peddle Amplify Tablets
From MyFoxNY.com back in March: Former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein is now the Executive Vice President for News Corporation (parent company of FOX 5). Klein visited the set of Good Day New York on Tuesday to discuss the new Amplify tablet.   The device is designed for teachers and students."Teachers love it; students love it. The teacher can personalize (the tablet.)  A teache


FBI Seizes 80,000 Emails From News Corporation Servers
Interesting news: The FBI has seized 80,000 potentially damning emails from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., giving the media titan worries on both sides of the Atlantic in the ongoing phone hacking scandal. While Murdoch was in London on Thursday facing the fallout from the conviction of one of his former star editors, it was disclosed in the U.S. that the FBI took and shared the mountain of emails

Westchester Residents Demand Tax Deadbeat Governor Cuomo Submit To Tax Assessment
Tax deadbeat Governor Cuomo and his consort Sandra Lee have refused to let the tax assessor into their Westchester home in order to avoid a property tax increase.That move is not playing well around Westchester - so fellow Westchester residents have decided to follow suit and refuse to let the assessor into their own properties:Westchester County residents joined gubernatorial candidate Rob Astori


The UFT MUST Endorse Andrew Cuomo For Governor
I am calling for the UFT to enthusiastically and vocally endorse Governor Andrew M. Cuomo for re-election this November.Sure Cuomo has shown himself to be anti-union, anti-teacher and anti-traditional public schools during his tenure as governor.And sure it makes no sense that a teachers union would continue to support a politician who hates unions, teachers and traditional public schools, as the
UFT Planted "Kiss of Death" On Espillat With Union Endorsement
From State of Politics:In a statement sent out this afternoon, Sen. Adriano Espaillat conceded the primary for the 13th congressional district to incumbent Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel. He also declared his candidacy for re-election to the state Senate. Espaillat had held off on conceding to Rangel, saying he’d wait until “every single vote” was counted before admitting defeat. This comes after


6-26-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: LIRR Unions Do Not Take Kindly To Newest MTA Offer, Negotiation StrategyFrom the Daily News:The MTA’s decision to publicize its newest contract offer to LIRR workers — who are threatening a strike next month — has union leaders considering whether to ditch a new round of negotiations set for Friday.Anthony Simon, a spokesman for a coalition of Long Island Rail Road unions, w