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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

8-26-14 Ed Notes Online

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Mainstream Media Picks up NYSUT Officer Pension Story--
-- which we broke on Ed Notes - Sellout Fever: Newly Elected Revile - er - Revise .... Thanks for not crediting, CapitalLaw lets NYSUT officers accrue 2 pensions simultaneously Tweet Share on Facebook Share on Tumblr Print By Jessica Bakeman 6:40 p.m. | Aug. 26, 2014 follow this reporter ALBANY—Under a law approved in the final days of this year's legislative session, New York State United

Black and Latino plaintiffs win back pay in Gulino v BOE
Before ed deform - or maybe an early stage of it - one of the first shots at teachers of color was the lifting of licenses from experienced teachers over a test - even if those teachers had excellent ratings.One of them was in my school, an impeccable pre-k special ed teacher who had worked her way up from a para. My principal loved her. But she kept freezing every time she took the test. Sometime

8-25-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: The Left and Right Attacks MORE on Garner March Position: I'm Shocked, There Are Social Democrats in MOREThis is -- or should be -- absolutely the end for MORE and its sponsors in the ISO and other opportunist organizations. This is what social democracy looks like... Comment on MORE position (The March for Justice and Unity) on Garner march.SHAME ON MORE!!! SHAME ON THE ISO AND S