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Mike Bloomberg – the no accountability, no shame, no ethics mayor.

Bravo Mike Mulgrew you correctly place the shame where it belongs. Mayor Bloomberg, Joel Klein and Dennis Walcott have by design bled many of the schools of necessary resouces while closing neighborhood schools labeling them a failure and forcing students out the door. Their primary goal is to take over existing public school buildings and make them available for charter schools. The mayor is as phony as his threat to layoff thousands of teachers and the self induced budget crisis that coexists with a several billion dollar surplus. Lay the wood to them all Mike Mulgrew.

And still no help for the majority of NYC students.  These new schools don’t help but a handful, the handful that would probably be succeeding wherever they went to school.

Do you think he’ll let CB drive him home from the airport?

Puke–worthy.

BS about the black or blue ink!  For the mayor to say that the prior lawsuits were won on trivial stuff is utter BS!  For the past 8 years the mayor has not abided by the state ed laws; he broke them at every opportunity possible.  We caught him, fought him and taught him a lesson.  But his billionaire attitude won’t accept it the burn.  He will go down in history as the billionaire mayor that couldn’t bring the union, the parents and the community to their knees.  He won one battle and he’s celebrating it in Bermua.  But, the war is still on!

sounds like you have been brainwashed by the retrorgrade anti-child pro-union forces.   How is shuttering failing schools and replacing them with new management a bad things.  Teachers are great but the Teachers UNION is a force of evil and greed that only tries to line the pockets of its members and will throw countelless children under the school bus.

Am I the only one worried about the mayor?  The man is delusional.  

Jeff S, I don’t think you’re being completely fair.  The mayor does believe in term limits. In fact, they’re going back into place right after he leaves office in 2014.  It’s almost here!   Let’s not be fooled and vote for his tool Christine Quinn.

We all know that the mayor has no grasp of reality.  His money has enabled him to construct a distorted, delusional mind.  What’s very sad too is the fact that he has paid off people to accept his erroneous beliefs.  I strongly believe in karma and his day will come.

Students in the phase out schools are marginalized and even traumatized as I know from experience. The new schools move into the building with up-to-the-minute equipment, remodeled classrooms and often young and inexperienced administrators and teachers who not realizing this could some day happen to them end up treating the phase out teachers and students as intruders and worse.  During each year of the 4 year phase out more and more teachers leave while the remaining teachers are forced to teach out of license at the determent of the remaining students.   Finally why doesn’t anyone in the press ever hold our cavalier mayor accountable for the “alleged” failure of these schools since he has been running them for over 10 years?  Has he ever even spoken to a student from a “phase out school?”  

The corrupt hypocrites here are Weingarten and Mulgrew, who laugh when they put on as big show attacking the mayor and Klein and Walcott. -then invite them to  UFT events and Weingarten’s narcissistic birthday bash. 
-the UFT shares spaces with public schools for their charter school.
2-Weingarten and Mulgrew refused to let me write a story about Racqnel James, a black teacher at fordham  HS for the Arts who was railroaded-accused of leaving a death threat in the principal’s mail box two years ago by the principal Iris Blige. When the main accuser turned on Blige and wanted me to write the story clearing James, Weingarten and Mulgrew refused and refused to let me take a vacation day to attend her trial .
 Ms. James was fired and two years later, after being indicted for a misdeameanor -think Tucson- still hasnt had a trial The Bronx D.A. -elected with help from the UFT -has asked for 17 postponements. Blige was later fined for telling her A.P’s to recommend Unsatisfactory ratings  BEFORE  teachers were observed. 
-the main decision makers at the UFT are almost all white. 
-while people like Mulgrew and his tops staff make $200,000 to $300,000 per year, the starting salary for a secretary is $23,000 -constantly abused by Hickey—-they are almost all black and Latina women.
-Weingarten field a phony lawsuit years ago claiming that firing para professionals— black and Latinas- was racist, After she got her headlines, she dropped the case.
-the $50 per day free UFT parking spots given as rewards to UFT insiders are given predominantly to whites. THat is a $500,000 per year- the cost of parking downtown —- perk to Unity Caucus loyalists.  

-when a long time UFT Unity Caucus activist- a black woman, complained about shakedowns and fraud in the Staten Island rubber room,. Weingarten and Barr ordered me out of the room- which is a five minute drive from my house. Weingarten had told me to investigate, but a Brooklyn UFT official -who was sending my emails to the DOE- wanted the probe  closed down- the company guards who were working the racket  are employed by a company owned by a billionaire who is a close friend of the mayor. so much for loyatly to a black woman. 
-Weingarten and Mulgrew fired or demoted five consecutive black writers, forced out a competent black lawyer, took the Safety Dept away from a black man and replaced Leroy -Barr- a black man -with two whites because Weingarten said he was incompetent. He was allowed to keep his title and salary. 
-Mulgrew fired his press secretary- a black man with 19 years experience at the union, with a white guy who quit the union years before right after his five year pension vested. 
anyone see a pattern here?
–On Election Day, 2008, -I was suspended for two days without pay because Weingarten, my editor Deidre McFadyen, staff directors Barr and Ellie Engler, Garry Sprung, CFO David Hickey were off the wall with rage  that I sent a pro-Obama article to UFT staff the week before the election-which writers were always allowed to do. 
Weingarten was still bitter about her close pal Hillary losing and wanted to sabotage the Obama campaign. 
-when it appeared to UFT staff that there was a predominantly black presence in the rubber rooms, Weingarten and Barr refused to let me do the story.. Neither of these fakers cares one whit about black kids. 
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any questions? Lots more to come about malfeasance, nepotism, favoritism, incompetence, corruption, no-bid contracts and Mulgrew, Hickey and Weingarten allowing one of their top married  aides to  retire -with a Tier One and UFT pension—after he was caught taking kickbacks in the form of free hotel rooms so he could coerce his subordinate  into having sex with him on union time. She said she was going to the press and was going to file a lawsuit if he stayed. 
Jim Callaghan, former UFT staffer fired after 13 years. 
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The  UFT  is  facing  existential  threats  with   the  growing  number  of  non-unionized  charter  schools in  NYC,  as  well  as  a  new  teacher  evaluation  which  will  result  in  thousands  of  unionized  teachers  being  fired  each  year.

Dear Lord, please give Michael Bloomberg a painful and fatal heart attack after being run over by a speeding bicyclist on his way to eating a transfat-free lunch on the pedestrian mall.

YES AND THANK YOU FOR THE JUDGE THAT GIVE MAYOR BLOOMBERG THE RIGHT TO CLOSE DOWN THESE HORRIBLE SCHOOLS. MAYOR BLOOMBERG WHEN YOU SHUT DOWN PS 147Q IT WAS BECAUSE THEY PASS STUDENTS WHO DON’T DO WORK OR PASS TESTS. ALSO BECAUSE OF LAZY TEACHERS.