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ATR Job Fair: Many called….Few chosen
A “mandatory recruitment fair” (or was it a futility festival?) was held in the main room of the Grand Prospect Ballroom in Brooklyn on September 14. Teachers were initially directly to report at 10 o’clock in the morning. Email messages went out the day before changing the time to 1:00. Although the second floor ballroom … Continue reading
GEMNYC: WHO WE ARE
Inform, Support, Inspire: Promoting Policies for a Fully Funded and Effective Public School System The Grassroots Education Movement (GEMNYC) educates, organizes, and mobilizes educators, parents, students and communities to defend public education. Too many current corporate and government policies seek to underfund, undermine and privatize our public school system. GEM advocates around issues dealing with … Continue reading
Videos from August 30 PEP Meeting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roSDxs16NPU Parent Carol Boyd Creates a poem for the PEP http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzrsxfe3sY8
Regulation of the Chancellor/ We Told You So!
Published at CAPE and Ed Notes. Regulation of the Chancellor/ We Told You So! No really, we told them so! Over the last year parents and teachers have detailed the numerous and egregious errors with the Department of Education’s so-called policy and procedures in regards to co-locations. We carefully outlined the flaws as we advocated … Continue reading
Videos from August 16 PEP Meeting Shutdown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_TGCwlaIYY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvnnzqC8lb4 PEP August 16, 2010 Part 3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bOMY3BKCdI More raw footage. A child goes up on the stage and security removes him. The crowd reacts. Khem Irby and Patrick Sullivan speak. The PEP members return for another try but still want comments on testing to be at the end. Crowd will have none of it. … Continue reading
NEW VERSION: Educational Dysfunctionality and Discrimination in the World of Bloomberg/Klein
Joel Klein disregards decision by State Ed Commissioner regarding Girls Prep charter school expansion while students with autism are forced to move. As outrage mounts, he reverses himself. But the controversy over basic decisions to favor charter schools while discriminating against special ed children won’t go away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCYJRj4sMTk Discriminatory and Destructive Precedents Set PS 15 … Continue reading
Mayoral Control is Governance By Lawlessness
Mayoral Control is Governance By Lawlessness… It is Time to Put an End to the Bloomberg-Klein Ed Deform Agenda! The PS 188/94 and PS 15 recent appeals to the State Education Commissioner prove once again that Mayoral Control amounts to nothing more than governance by lawsuit, a construct where parents, students, and teachers will find … Continue reading
ANOTHER TABOO VIOLATED: UFT AGREES TO INDIVIDUAL MERIT PAY
In case you missed the press coverage this past Friday, the UFT and the DoE have made an agreement to start the new teacher rating system in 11 schools this coming September. These schools were chosen from the 34 on the state list for restructuring. The new rating system was not supposed to affect anybody … Continue reading
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