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CORRECTED: The original version of this post reported unconfirmed details about the origins of StopJoelKlein.org. The site was created by a collection of groups including Time Out From Testing but not including any New York City public high schools, a creator, Jane Hirschmann, said.

Considering the opposition Joel Klein has engendered in his seven years as chancellor, it’s surprising that no one registered the domain name StopJoelKlein.org until last week.

But it wasn’t until Nov. 10 that somebody registered the domain name. That was the same day the New York Times profiled Klein as a front-runner for appointment as U.S. Secretary of Education. StopJoelKlein.org is now being used as a petition to oppose a Klein-led U.S. Department of Education, although the site does not make public the number of “signatures” it has received or who has signed on. (more…)

Teachers are signing up in droves to oppose a promotion for Schools Chancellor Joel Klein.

An online petition opposing Klein as Secretary of Education has collected more than 2,000 signatures since it was created Monday by a California education professor, Duane Campbell. The petition has attracted attention from dozens of Web sites, including those of Gotham Gazette and the progressive Nation magazine.

Many of the petition’s first signers were parents from New York City and educators from across the country, as Leonie Haimson pointed out on the NYC Education News e-mail list.

But increasingly, it appears to be people identifying themselves as New York City public school teachers, both active and retired, who are signing on. (There are 80,000 teachers in the city; most, obviously, have not attached their name to the petition.)

Below the jump, several teachers’ recent comments: (more…)