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The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting For Superman
Clashes turn to chaos at DeWitt Clinton HS [Bronx]
October 13, 2010 By Nikki Dowling http://riverdalepress.com/stories/Clashes-turn-to-chaos-at-DeWitt-Clinton-HS,47003?page=1&content_source= Violence at DeWitt Clinton High School escalated to such a point on Oct. 1, that police were called in and slapped at least seven juveniles with disorderly conduct notices, according to police and the Department of Education. Overcrowding, and what some students say is rampant gang violence at … Continue reading
WOW! UE* Union In Defense of Public Education! UFT/AFT: Which Side Are You On?
What follows should be endemic to the UFT and the AFT unions. School unions should be actively and aggressively working with the UE, the FMPR (Puerto Rico) and other progressive rank & file groups (e.g. CORE Chicago) and not with the likes of Bill Gates and other corporate profiteers that promote neoliberal agendas such a … Continue reading
Real Reformers Rally at Waiting for Superman Opening: Sept. 24, 2010
Pics from rehearsal at Lincoln Center to the theater.
Labor Beat: Corporate Media and Plunder of Chicago Public Education
In the weeks following the election of Karen Lewis as the new Chicago Teachers Union President, we see how Chicago’s corporate public relations world attempts to spin the story of new union militancy in the face of layoffs and 35 students per classroom. Exclusive press conference scenes and analysis. Interview with Carol Caref, new CTU … Continue reading
Chicago Teachers Union Wins Back Jobs of Laid Off 1,000 Tenured Teachers
UPDATE: Oct. 12 NOTE: Some people were passing this email around as connected to race. George Schmidt sets us straight: Please see the correct information from George Schmidt. From: gnschmidt@aol.com Subject: Re: AFT P&J: Fwd: Black Chicago Teachers Win Discrimination Lawsuit 10/11/10 There were two separate legal actions. In 2009, CORE filed an EEOC complaint … Continue reading
What I Learned at NBC’s Education Nation Summit
Thank you, Teacher Brian Jones for sharing your lessons from your NBC debate. Your reflections demonstrate the higher order analytical critical thinking skills that the privatized charter school models (i.e. teach-to-the-test/rote learning) are pushing out of our classroom pedagogy. For full article, click: What I Learned at NBC’s Education Nation Summit Excerpted text: “Waiting for … Continue reading
National Actions to Defend Public Education, October 7th 2010
New York, NY Many rallies during the day at Brooklyn College, City College New York, Hunter College, Queens College and throughout the state. Unified New York City rally at 4pmat the Harlem State Office Building 163 West 125th Street, just east of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. BLVD(seventh avenue),then march across Harlem via 125th street to … Continue reading
The Real Reformers Stood Up: Video of the Rap at the Waiting for Superman Gap
Here is a compilation of the performances of Will the Real Reformers Please Stand Up! at the Loews Lincoln Square movie theater at the Waiting for Superman premiere on Sept. 24, 2010. It includes a brief section of the Real Reformers running into Michael Moore on the street (It was opening night at the NY … Continue reading
GEM REAL REFORMERS:Smashing Broadway Success!
Loews Theatre – 66th & Broadway – New York City Sept 24, 2010 GEM-NYCORE SuperHeroes, The REAL REFORMERS, were a Smashing Success at opening of pro-charter propaganda film, Waiting For Superman, on Broadway. The GEM-NYCORE protesters included a caped-hero-street-theatre troup that rapped lyrics to educate ingoing/outgoing crowds about the film’s pro-privatization, pro-charter fraud. Over 100, … Continue reading
The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman – The Flyer
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