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Congratulations to Sister Lisa Capece for winning her job back in court. UFT Chapter Leaders and union activists like Capece are targets for mean and gutless principals. I know from experience. I was chapter leader at the Cobble Hill School of American Studies, now destined for turnaround. After I published a faculty survey highly critical of our ineffective Principal Ken Cuthbert, since removed, he used an emotionally disturbed student and a vengeful para to frame me into the rubber room on a phony corporal punishment charge. Despite DOE pressure the student refused to appear at my 3020-a hearing and the Arbitrator found that the unstable para, who had unsuccessfully accused me of verbally abusing her son, lied when she testified that I pushed the boy.
 
The Arbitrator also found that the rogue OSI investigator Dennis Boyles had fudged his report:  “…  there are discrepancies in Boyles’ handwritten notes and his investigative report which raise questions about how the Department would have handled this allegation had it been privy to both Boyles’ notes and report.” Translation: Boyles tainted the evidence so badly that fair and honest prosecution was problematic, if not impossible. Capece case and mine prove that the DOE cannot be trusted and should never have the final word on a teacher’s career.

Gotham should investigate the total breakdown of the NCLB SES procedures this year.  The DOE ran out of books for parents to select providers and could not provide to parents the list of available options for tutoring. Great business model