By Jason | May 18, 2011 at 1:18 pm | No comments
The Department Of Education and the Teacher's Union are clashing against new rules about using standardize test scores for teacher evaluations. The United Federation Of Teachers are looking to set up a law suit.
"It's over-weighting something that all of the experts and...
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By Jason | May 17, 2011 at 9:45 am | No comments
Governor Cuomo is set to release a revised benefits plan for public city workers. This new plan increases the age for NYC public employees to retire to 65 as well as cut out corruption for pension padding. Teachers who have been in the system planning on retiring now face a...
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By Jason | May 13, 2011 at 10:16 pm | 2 comments
Andrew Cuomo's proposal for revising the Board of Regents teacher evaluation standards – an issue that has become something of a sticking point as the mayor is threatening to fire thousands of NYC teachers and pushing for the repeal of ...
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By Jason | May 13, 2011 at 3:29 pm | No comments
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Cuomo have feuded over the city's desire to blow a hole in “last-in, first-out” protections for teachers but making employment decisions subject to seniority as well as teacher evaluations. ...
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By Jason | May 11, 2011 at 4:11 pm | No comments
RT @mmangen Help a teacher in an inner city NYC school get his students some toolz & skillz. http://ow.ly/4RJ5Q via @RedheadWriting A-wesome
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By kcaskins | May 10, 2011 at 3:07 am | No comments
The story that follows is from a NYC teacher , third year, in a middle school in a NYC district. Her name and school are not available yet, but will be, soon
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Superintendent threatens principal for offering teacher tenure...
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By Jason | May 8, 2011 at 4:23 pm | No comments
End of Empire Education Learning to Resist, Yearning to Breathe Free. By MATT MEYER CounterPunch.org.
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End of Empire Education | The Global...
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By kcaskins | May 7, 2011 at 6:27 am | No comments
NYC Public School Parents: The mayor's choice: a budget which puts ...
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By Jason | April 14, 2011 at 4:40 pm | No comments
In one of the fastest approvals I have seen, the NYC education commissioner approved a waiver for Dennis Walcott to become the NYC DOE School Chancellor replacing Cathie Black. In one of the more controversial runnings within the past decade of the NYC education system, the...
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By Jason | April 8, 2011 at 9:32 am | No comments
After yesterdays press conference, Cathie Black publicly stated that she was stepping down. Replacing Black is Dennis Walcott, the former liaison to the school system during Joel Klein's reign. Cathie Black leaves a legacy of hard choices and a tattered reputation....
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