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Betsy Combier Asks FOIL Officer Joe BaranelloTo Clarify the Fees of $29.95/hr...
I decided that I should clarify with Records Access Officer Joe Baranello exactly what I would pay for, and who I would be hiring, (at $29.95/hr) in order to obtain the secret rules handed out at the...
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Another Request Sent By Betsy Combier Concerning F11,129 For Records of the...
RE: F11,129 response 2 messages Betsy Combier Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:59 PM To: Baranello Joseph , Betsy Combier , rfreeman@dos.state.ny.usDear Mr. Baranello,I sent you an email on April 14, 2015,...
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Mitchell Robinson on Silencing Teachers
The One about Silencing Teachers, Retribution and the Smell of Fear from the Reformers... LINKI received the note below from a former student who is now a teacher. For obvious reasons, I won't identify...
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Michael Kink Files a Freedom of Information Request For Cuomo Officials and...
FOI seeks emails between Cuomo aides and donorsBY KEN LOVETT NEW YORK DAILY NEWSMichael KinkMonday, April 20, 2015, 5:22 AMHere is an item from my "Albany Insider" column that was cut for space from...
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Joe Baranello and His New Facebook Comment on the City, as Well as His...
I have a problem with Joseph Baranello, NYC DOE Records Access Officer: he will not give me any records of a secret DOE meeting held on February 24, 2015 at Tweed, 52 Chambers Street, unless I pay...
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Another Scandal Involving Carmen Farina and Her "Ignore and Hide" the Bad...
My opinion, from working with Carmen at PS6 in Manhattan as a parent while she was principal, is: if you curry her favor, say what she wants to hear and hurt people she doesn't like or believes are...
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Joe Baranello Says Pay or You Dont Get To Play (F11,129)
NYC DOE Joe BaranelloTO: Courtenaye Jackson-Chase, Esq. General Counsel FOIL Appeals Officer Robert Freeman Committee on Open GovernmentDear Ms. Jackson-Chase,Today, I...
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James Calantjis, Proponent of School Leadership Teams and Participatory...
From Jim Calantjis: Dear Ms. Jackson-Chase,Chief Legal Advisor for DOE) Courtenaye Jackson-Chase It was a great pleasure to see the DOE's efforts to further marginalize School Leadership Teams...
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Why Do Grievants Lose Their Grievance Hearings? Hearing Officer Marcel...
Most people who have been through the grievance process at either 49-51 Chambers Street, 6th floor, or at 65 Court Street in the offices of Appeals and Reviews , leave thinking one or the other of the...
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Betsy Combier: The UFT Calls the 3-member Panel "Historic" - I Call Them...
After I posted on this blog the story of the UFT win and the efforts the UFT made to have a 3-member panel to decide grievances, I received many calls and emails from teachers who were very happy with...
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Once Again, Betsy Combier Questions the Delay in Getting Information About...
Betsy in her office at the UFT, 16th floor, 52 Broadway circa 2009 As many of you know, I filed a Freedom of Information request to the DOE FOIL office, headed by Joe Baranello, for information about...
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From Arthur Goldstein: NYSED Should Not Take English Instruction Away From...
Arthur Goldstein is an angry Chapter Leader (at Francis Lewis HS)Arthur Goldstein on the leftNYC EducatorArthur's blog: Since I've been teaching, we've provided English Language Learners with extensive...
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PS 90 Principal and AP Yanked From the School and Under Investigation
Greta Hawkins. Teflon Principal. Politically connected enough to Mayor Mike Bloomberg to get a photo op with him on a merry-go-round:Greta Hawkins and Mike Bloomberg (they look so cute...
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FACES: Charles Peeples
Charles PeeplesCharles PeeplesExecutive Director Office of Field and Information Services at NYC Department of EducationGreater New York City AreaEducation ManagementCurrentNYCDOEPreviousHR...
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FACES: Adrienne Hadaway
Adrienne HadawayAdrienne HadawayEducation Analyst, Office of Teacher Recruitment and Quality, New York City Department of EducationNew York, New YorkPublic PolicyNYC Department of EducationNYC...
View ArticleSpecial Education Teachers Are Given Uncertified Substitute Paraprofessionals...
Why?Because uncertified substitute paras are cheaper, and untenured. So, they will do whatever they are told to do by the principal. What they are told to do may have nothing to do with the health,...
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Newark Students Will Walk Out of Their Schools on Friday May 22, 2015 in...
Cami-Andersonby Peter GreeneTeacher and writer; blogger, curmudgucation.blogspot.comWho's Listening in Newark?Posted: 05/19/2015 10:53 pm EDT Updated: 05/19/2015 10:59 pm EDTLINKThe mayor of a state's...
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Meeting at the NYC Bar on Student Privacy May 26, 7-9PM. Joseph Baranello...
I think that the choice of speakers at this event is amusing. Joe Baranello is in Court right now, defending his non-compliance with FOIA and FOIL, or Freedom of Information Law.Student Data Privacy in...
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Phil Nobile on the Misconduct of Chancellor Carmen Farina, and on the...
Carmen "retires": Andres Alonso, Carmen Farina, Joel Klein in 2006From Betsy Combier, Editor:I met Phil Nobile when he was a re-assigned teacher/member of the 25 Chapel Street rubber room, and I worked...
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RE-POST (2014): Dr. Patsy Perkins Wins Her U-Rating Appeal Given By MS 232...
The random standards of the NYC Department of Education can be frightening, and the most frightening part of the public school system is the random and arbitrary nature of sudden attacks and/or...
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