Tuesday, September 25, 2012

6100 classes that violate union contractual limits this fall

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This morning, at a press conference, Michael Mulgrew president of the UFT announced that over 6,100 classes at 670 NYC public schools this...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Education Nation ignores parents but we make our voices heard at the premiere of "Won't Back Down"

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Yesterday was NBC's Education Nation's "parent engagement" town hall, which turned out Real-life public school paren...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Michelle Rhee finally gets a real debate on BBC

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Michelle Rhee gets blasted on the BBC by the UK teacher union leader on the unfairness of her teacher evaluation system, the cheating scand...
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Friday, September 21, 2012

We fought the invasion of PS 15: a real-life "Won't Back Down" story

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Lydia Bellahcene and Julie Cavanagh The following was written by Julie Cavanagh and Lydia Bellahcene, a teacher and a parent a...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Don't be fooled by "Won't Back Down"!

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Credit: Center for Media and Democracy Over the next few weeks, we will be running pieces describing real-life “Won’t Back Down” st...
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Sunday, September 16, 2012

The underlying issues in the Chicago teacher strike according to Julie Cavanagh and Matt Farmer

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See video excerpts from "Up with Chris" this morning, MSNBC's show on the Chicago teacher strike.  Here are NYC teacher Juli...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The real issues in the Chicago teachers strike and why they should matter to us here in NYC: Leonie Haimson on CNBC

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See the video from last night below, in which I stood up for the teachers in Chicago, three against one, on the Kudlow Report  on CNBC.  I...
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Welcome back to a new school year, & please fill out our 2 minute class size survey!

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Welcome back to a new school year. I hope your child is settled in a good school, with a reasonable class size, but I fear for too...
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