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June 4, 2012

Rise & Shine: StudentsFirst stepping into race UFT is sitting out

by Philissa Cramer, at 6:48 am
  • StudentsFirst is backing Hakeem Jeffries in a congressional race the UFT is sitting out. (Daily News)
  • Poker can be transformative for students at the Henry Street School for International Studies. (WSJ)
  • A bill percolating in Albany would let charter schools form services collaboratives. (GothamSchools)
  • Michael Winerip: National lists of best high schools ignore selectivity and demographics. (Times)
  • The second lawsuit against a Success Academy, in Williamsburg, was dismissed last week. (NY1)
  • The city is rolling back longstanding social promotion rules. (GothamSchools, NY1, Daily News, WSJ)
  • After watching a TV show about healthy eating, a P.S. 8 student launched a school food mission. (Post)
  • Police are looking for a man who tried to abduct a student outside P.S. 92 in Queens. (Post, NY1)
  • A new course at the private Fieldston School aims to expose sheltered students to New York City. (Times)
  • A national pilot program to curb domestic violence starts early with middle school students. (Times)
  • In a new book, Harlem Village Academies operator Deborah Kenny explains her motivation. (Post)
  • A Virginia teacher’s discipline trial shows the complexity of incompetence charges. (Washington Post)
  • Speaking on Sunday, Chancellor Walcott reiterated his wish to fire teachers guilty of sex abuse. (Post)
  • Andrea Peyser: The spate of teachers accused of sex misconduct means the arbitrators should go. (Post)

Last week on GothamSchools:

  • A second set of redacted Joel Klein emails from 2009 includes one from Eva Moskowitz. (Friday)
  • Long-troubled Opportunity Charter School won a five-year renewal recommendation. (Thursday)
  • Bills that would shield teacher ratings from the public are still on the table in Albany. (Thursday)
  • A judge dismissed a lawsuit against Cobble Hill Success Academy but found merit in it. (Wednesday)
  • Authorities are devising a way to let charter schools take “over-the-counter” students. (Tuesday)
  • New York was one of eight states to receive a No Child Left Behind waiver last week. (Tuesday)
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  • old teach

    So Mike Mulgrew sends out an email letter to members to support the protest against frisk and search, but it sits on the sidelines for a Congreesional seat when the candidates have diametrically opposed positions on education. I question the leaderships decisions and I oppose their neutrality in elections that are vital to public education. If the UFT had any Al Shanker left in their blood, they would have supported Bill Thompson and none of the destruction of the past term would have taken place. Their political incorrectness is hurting dues paying members.

  • Philip Nobile

    Andrea Peyser commenting on accused sex-offending teachers in today’s Post:
    “Since the UFT helps pick arbitrators–a mammoth conflict of interest–the jerks, usually lawyers (or is that redundant?) have good reason to protect teachers. It helps them keep their jobs.”

    Thus Peyser provides the perfect paradigm for the Post’s scabrous coverage of school controversies. As she knows, the DOE helps pick the arbitrators, too, and has the same conflict of interest. But in reckless disregard of the truth, Peyser covered up the DOE’s conflict. Too bad Mulgrew doesn’t have the nerve to sue the Post for printing what he claimed was a false story about his allegedly interrupted lust and thrust at Grady High School. 

  • http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/ Norm

    From Perdido St School blog
    Note To Andrea Peyser: More Criminals Work For Your Boss, Rupert Murdoch, Than As Teachers

    Andrea Peyser is out with one of her usual over-the-top morality tales that declares
    The past week will go down as a depraved chapter in public-school history. It’s the week of Teachers Gone Wild.

    She
    says there is a “pedophilia crisis” in the New York City public school
    system that is enabled by the teachers union, that “the number of
    teachers caught having sex with students is climbing.” How many alleged cases of sexual misconduct by teachers does she list in her column?
    Four.
    Uh, huh – four cases of alleged sexual misconduct out of 75,000+ NYCDOE employees.  
    Now let me make clear, even one case of sexual misconduct involving a
    teacher is too many, but nonetheless to declare a “pedophilia crisis”
    on the basis of the four cases of alleged sexual misconduct Ms. Peyser
    lists in her column for the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post is quite
    absurd.
    In fact, a much higher percentage of employees at her own
    company, News Corporation, have been arrested on crimes ranging from
    illegal phone hacking, bribery, extortion, conspiracy to cover up
    criminal activities and perversion of justice than the number of cases
    of alleged sexual misconduct cases by NYCDOE employees she lists in her
    column.
    So far, at least forty News Corporation employees,
    most of whom worked at either the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the
    World or the Rupert Murdoch-owned The Sun, have been arrested in the
    News Corporation phone hacking/bribery/corruption scandal.
    —–Perdido St School blog

  • http://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/ Norm

     Al Shanker left in his blood? What fiction are you reading? Al Shanker would be so far away from supporting Barren as he could get and in fact would probably endorse Jeffries. You should see who he endorsed all those years.

  • Tejas

    TEST

  • Anonymous

    Andrea Peyser supports Bloomberg’s bill that would “let Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott fire pervy teachers, no questions asked.”  Except that she doesn’t know what the bill actually entails.

    She thinks that a teacher could be fired without a hearing (“questions asked”) strictly based on a student’s accusation.  This shows how a journalist can spew incendiary statements on her tabloid soapbox and how little understanding she has of the situation, both in terms of whey a student might lodge such accusations and what the mayor actually wants.  In reality, the bill still calls for a hearing before an arbitrator when a teacher is accused of sexual misconduct, but proposes that a school superintendent could overrule an arbitrator’s decision.  This still calls for a “questions asked” procedure.  Perhaps Andrea Peyser doesn’t ask enough questions before writing her column.

  • Ricacosta4

    Best time of year to be a teacher.  Thanks fo rthe laughs everyone.  Traveling to Costa Rica for the summer with direct deposit.  All the best!!

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