Mayor Bloomberg has been effusive, reserved, and scathing when talking about the UFT. (SchoolBook)
On Super Bowl Sunday, a teacher parses online notes to identify seven defenses of the union. (Assailed)
A math teacher updates about his self-help regimen of focusing on tough stuff. (Rational Expressions)
A mother shares her conflicted feelings about having her son screened for special needs. (Insideschools)
The Department of Education is looking, internally, for a chief charter school evaluator. (Simply Hired)
A former teacher riffs, critically, on a recent report about democracy-focused schools. (Commonal)
Alabama no longer plans to adopt common exams aligned to the Common Core. (Curriculum Matters)
New Jersey is playing catch-up with technology to be prepared for Common Core exams. (N.J. Spotlight)
In letters, educators and parents share their thoughts on testing’s value — or lack of value. (Times)
Rhode Island’s schools chief has decreed that districts must do away with seniority hiring. (Pro Jo)
Researchers say the data in the Gates Foundation’s latest teaching study don’t hold up. (Teacher Beat)
Former Turnaround Teacher
In that job description is this…
“The Department of Education (DOE) will more than double the number of charter schools from less than 100 to more than 230 over the next several years”
Hmmmm…
Nycdoenuts
That piece about the talking points that the defenders of my union brothers and sisters in the Unity Caucus use is perfect in its accuracy.
The only question it doesn’t address is; when will those same defenders come forward with some real, honest, straight forward conversion about the future of our union?
Election season begins in two days …
Guest
yeah!!!!
Tacito
Why the hell should anyone support MORE? Who is writing their blog? Who is in MORE? Who is there leadership? Julie is running for president, who else is on there slate? Why the mystery?
Philissa Cramer
I think the ad refers to the number of new charters authorized in 2010 when the legislature raised the charter cap statewide from 200 to 460. Half of the increase was earmarked for New York City.
Guest
Tacito: I for one support MORE because they know the difference between “there” and “their.” Awesome part of “their” platform
Former Turnaround Teacher
Election season does not officially start until Wednesday, so I am sure you will get much more info then, however the entire leadership ticket was announced a few weeks ago and each candidate is listed on the MORE website.
Former Turnaround Teacher
Got it! Thanks for the clarification.
Larry Littlefield
There are two things missing from the timeline of the Mayor’s relationship with the UFT, the two things that happened to fall right between cooperation and hostility.
The 25/55 pension deal that passed right around this time five years ago, and the subsequent market corrections that re-exposed (after everyone else got the hint after the tech bubble collapsed in 2000) that such deals would not be “free,” thought it actually startedin August 2007, intensified right after the deal was signed by Spitzer.
Up until that deal the narrative had been increasing funding and reforming management to make the schools better. Ever since it has been flailing to deal with cost and trying to shift blame for the fact that the schools would be getting much worse.
Among those who absolutely had to know exactly what they were doing and what the consequences would be: Mayor Bloomberg, the former finance guy, whose revenue projections during the housing bubble assumed it was a bubble that would deflate. And the leadership of the UFT, who were wrecking the schools to benefit those cashing in and moving out for the second time.
Why does the most important thing that was done in 12 years not make the timeline? It will be the only thing that still has an effect five years from now.
Nyr686
Educators, listen to john gambling radio show from this past Monday morning interviewing mayoral candidate Bill DiBlasio. DiBlasio blasts the bllomterd policies in our schools regarding school closings, atrs. and how ridiculous the mayor bloomterd is on his constant focus on a small percentage of teachers who are not meeting the job. Wow, bloomterd is really going down in a flame people…Mulgrew noted that he was embarrassed by bloomterds trip to albany when he tried to get the funding that he lost for the eval blowup…even the politicians in Albany are fed up with this mayor
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.