Remainders: Some movement in bus strike, as families struggle

by Philissa Cramer, at 6:20 pm

School bus companies and the striking drivers union are set to meet without the mayor. (Daily News)
In an open letter, a mother describes how her family has been disrupted by the bus strike. (SchoolBook)
Shelly Silver says penalizing city students over evals will be a hard budget sell. (NY1 via Capital Tonight)
In a mayoral debate, Tom Allon called NYCHA’s former chief the “Cathie Black of housing.” (Capital NY)
N.J. supe (and former NYC-er) Chris Cerf is meeting with a senate ed committee, finally. (NJ Spotlight)
Check into a school on FourSquare and now you can pull up its socioeconomic profile. (ProPublica)
A teacher annotates the instructions he got when working at a distributed grading center. (NYC Educator)
A teacher theorizes that “accuse and remove,” not charge, rules teacher discipline now. (NYCDOENuts)
One of the teachers who has been accused and removed is starting a rubber room TV show. (Portelos)
Newtown, Conn., is asking not to take state tests due to school shooting-induced trauma. (Answer Sheet)
After-school advocates say Gov. Cuomo’s extended day proposal is in line with the times. (Times-Union)
A teacher describes how she took steps to let students own their learning. (No Sleep Til Summer 1, 2)
Retired police officers are still angling to become as armed school guards on Staten Island. (JJIE)
Parents who clicked on Chicago’s schools chief’s Common Core link got a racy surprise. (Chicagoist)

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If you want to know what meetings are like at school, watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVXhA_hs2J8&feature=youtu.be Welcome to teaching in NYC
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I saw Portelos’ DTOE Talk Show. It’s a MUST see talk show. Leonie hits it on the nail about the 4 newspaper media’s editorial section that must promote the mayor’s delusion of success when the data shows that the scores when inflated. Diana Zavala mentions that the high stake exams are killing a child’s desire to learn, and LA teacher Leonard Isenberg brought the most blantant reason why you must close public schools and replace them with charter schools.

NYC go to the site and learn the truth about the closing of schools and these high stake exams: http://protectportelos.org/dtoe-talk-show/

Email it to others. Don’t allow this travesty to be the death of our public school system.
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When the NY Post is posting things and I don’t curse them, I get confused. “playtime over for kindergartners” http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/playtime_over_kindergartners_ItkfEkiosY3UOa8KpXwj8K

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