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9-19-14 Ed Notes Online

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Girls Prep Charter Takes Kids Not Picked Up on Time to Local Precinct, Threatens Parents with Administration of Childrens Services
Girls Prep has figured out a way to start the school to prison pipeline in pre-k. Children first in the world of charters.

On Democratic Centralism (Loyalty Oaths?) - From Trotsky to Shanker and Others
(Albert Shanker mentor) Max Shachtman (/ˈʃɑːktmən/; September 10, 1904 – November 4, 1972) was an American Marxist theorist. He evolved from being an associate of Leon Trotsky to a social democrat and mentor of senior assistants to AFL-CIO President George Meany.... Wikipedia Democracy and centralism do not at all find themselves in an invariable ratio to one another.... Leon TrotskyI wrote some c

9-18-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: UFT Caucuses and Loyalty Oaths - How About a UFT Cut-the-Strings, Free-the-Puppets Caucus?Arthur Goldstein has another assault on Unity Caucus at NYC Educator (How About a UFT Cut-the-Strings, Free-the-Puppets Caucus?)Arthur is often focused on the Unity Caucus loyalty oath. I believe this is the wrong terminology. Unity Caucus follows democratic centralism, a staple of the left s