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Sheri Lederman Puts Teacher Value-Added Modeling Scores on Trial in a...
Sheri Lederman See my prior posts:Teacher Sheri Lederman's Lawsuit Against NY State's Teacher Evaluation System Moves ForwardBetsy CombierControversial teacher evaluation method is on trial — literally...
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Lenny Isenberg: Will Truth Finally Prevail in Los Angeles About Teacher Jails...
Lenny Isenberg is a teacher advocate in Los AngelesListen - he has important statements to make.Betsy CombierARE WE FINALLY GETTING CLOSER TO LAUSD'S JUDGMENT DAY?LINKDavid HolmquistRamon Cortines On...
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UFT President Says That the Just-Released Test Scores Are Good News
My comment:Who wrote this for him? Michael MulgrewThe press office of the UFT spews out nonsense and gets a lot of money to do it. They of course ignore the huge amount of scrubbing in New York City...
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VADIR Stops Principals From Reporting School Violence
When a teacher is brought to 3020-a for misconduct, such as corporal punishment, why, teachers ask, are they accused of harming a student when the fight was between two (or more) students and the...
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Johnathan Hinesley is a teacher and Chapter Leader who wants the public to watch his 3020-a arbitration.He asked for an open and public hearing.His hearing begins August 19 at 10:00AM. His attorney is...
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NY POST Says Get Rid of Carmen Farina, Bill
Shades of Cathie Black!!!Betsy CombierCarmen Farina: The Problem With Her Being Chancellor of the NYC School System Is.......Francesco Portelos suggests a clean-up of the "old regime"LINKCarmen Farina...
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Carmengate: The Scandal of Scrubbing, False Claims, and Children Last
Carmen FarinaFariña appoints pals for ‘tough reform’ amid grade-fixing scandal by Susan Edelman, Yoav Gonen, Bruce GoldingSchools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has appointed a bunch of handpicked cronies to...
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VADIR Stops Principals From Reporting School Violence
When a teacher is brought to 3020-a for misconduct, such as corporal punishment, why, teachers ask, are they accused of harming a student when the fight was between two (or more) students and the...
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SB 725 Passes In The California Assembly Appropriations Committee Allowing...
The abrupt cancellation of the CAHSEE in July shows what little support students have within the California Education Department.Thanks, California Assembly for making a ridiculous situation...
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Jessica Millen, Indiana Pre-School Teacher, Writes About Why She Left Teach...
The scripted talk which Ms. Millen grew to dislike reminds me of the scripts mandated in The Workshop Model. I am not a fan of scripts when children are in the mix because children, and life...
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Teacher Jason Duchan Sues LAUSD Over A Fake Facebook Page
The tricks and whims of those people who choose to lie about others is too destructive to allow.The case of Jason Duchan is an example of this, where a student - who was arrested - destroyed Mr....
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Therapist Debra Fisher Gets Her Name Cleared and Her Absurd Punishment For...
Debra Fisher's punishment for helping a student was outrageous.Luckily, the public was able to force the New York City Department of Education to do the right thing.Betsy Combier, EditorPresident,...
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"Persistently Dangerous" is a Label no Principal Wants, and All Hide
What Principals and the Office of Special Investigations do when there is a violent incident involving students, is file a report that makes the teacher the perpetrator, so that the school does NOT get...
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Former NYC Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott Is Appointed a Monitor For the...
Dennis WalcottDOE Appoints Dennis Walcott to Lead Monitor Team in East RamapoBaruch Horowitz The new monitor for the East Ramapo School district, Dennis Walcott, discussed his new position today on the...
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Its A Fact: Attaching High Stakes To Standardized Tests Decreases Whatever...
An Update On High Stakes Test Cheating StoriesPOSTED BY DAVID SAFIER ON FRI, AUG 21, 2015 AT 5:00 PM LINK Arizona is getting ready to go all in on last year's AzMERIT scores. We already know the...
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California Commission on Teacher Credentialing Streamlines Teacher Misconduct...
Here in NYC, the Department of Education took care of speedy investigations many years ago - really, how long does it take to make up false accusations and get a few employees to say they are true (or...
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UFT, NYSUT Fight to Keep Tenure in New York State Supreme Court
How I wish the UFT and NYSUT meant what they said today: “For the past 10 years, teachers have been demonized across the country,” he said. “You can’t demonize people and expect them to say, ‘hit me...
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Indiana State Teachers' Association President Teresa Meredith Speaks Out...
Mike has one of the best blogs on the internet.Betsy Combier, EditorPresident, ADVOCATZUnion President on “Teacher Shortage”: “Who Cares What the Data Says?”WRITTEN BY: MIKE ANTONUCCI - AUG•...
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The NYC Department of Education Has No Policy For Service or Therapy Dogs...
When my youngest daughter was attending PS 6 on Manhattan's upper east side, I asked the Principal, Carmen Farina, if I could start a lunch club for 4th and 5th graders to focus on ways children could...
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Mike Mulgrew Finally Admits He, the UFT, and NYSUT Were Wrong To Go Along...
I am disgusted by the "I'm sorry" statements coming from Mike Mulgrew. That is exactly what I see in his turnaround on the horrible, incompetent, and malicious prosecution of UFT members by the NYC...
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