City school buildings have been housing Sandy evacuees since Sunday. (Insideschools, SchoolBook)
A city teacher lists six big questions that leapt to his mind about Friday’s teacher workday. (B Niche)
A teacher praises Mayor Bloomberg’s Sandy response, except for his decree about teachers. (Mr Foteah)
On behalf of marooned teachers, a UFT chapter leader pleads for telecommuting. (Labor’s Lessons)
A Brownstone Brooklyn family’s commute to their private school went smoothly today. (SchoolBook)
This weekend’s Specialized High Schools Admissions Test date has been rescheduled. (Insideschools)
Aaron Pallas says the data show no narrowing of the achievement gap under Bloomberg. (Eye on Ed)
The U.S. Department of Education extended its deadline for Race to the Top Districts. (Politics K-12)
Georgia’s charter school funding rules are fueling the dollars vs. efficiency debate. (Southern Ed Desk)
One city school is conducting a survey to produce its own Where are they Now report. (SurveyMonkey)
A new report concludes that teachers unions vary in strength from state to state. (Teacher Beat)
Akademos
Are teachers actually being used as guinea pigs and untrained eyes regarding transit and building issues? Well, better to have adults enter first, rather than kids and adults test things out from scratch, but teachers are not trained for this. And if this is what the city is doing with teachers, the Mayor should not only admit it but make it clear.
Akademos
Actually, seems more like a dry run to see who can get to where.
Hannibal
I woke up at my usual time 5:30a.m., showered and then checked my doe mail one last time for an update. Walcott sends out a message at 12:51 a.m. not to report until 10a.m. What did they think we were going to do, stay up all night waiting to find out we can sleep in a little later. Walcott, instead of standing behind bloomberg at all the press conferences looking like a dear in headlights. You and your idiots at tweed should have t thought out a plan to inform teachers at a reasonable time about friday.. In another year when you are ousted by the new mayor for being a fraud you can always come to my mountain retreat and work as a maintainence man. Oh, to be prepared yoy don,t have to start until 10:00a.m. Clown
BloombergMustGo
I was at my school building at 8 AM when I saw the email. These two clowns have got to go!!!!!!
BloombergMustGo
Guinea pigs, exactly!!
Guest
I wonder where on earth anyone gets the notion that public school teachers have a punch-clock mentality. Truly inspiring stuff.
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