Welcome to the newest members of the PJSTA! Today, 18 new members had their orientation with members of the PJSTA’s executive board along with members of our rank and file. In addition to taking care of membership paperwork and getting to know their contract, PJSTA’s newest members were briefed on the current landscape of public …
NYSUT is seeking “Ambassadors for Public Education” for something they are referring to as “Education Summer 2015.” I have no idea what it entails. Here is the link to apply. Here is the job description.
Wishing our members a wonderful and relaxing summer and best wishes to our newly retired members! We will be taking a little while off from the blog unless there is major news that breaks. However we will be back later in the summer as we ramp up for the 2015-2016 school year.
Via the MORE Caucus… Jia Lee, Chapter Leader of The Earth School and a member of MORE, brought a MORE-sponsored resolution before the Delegate Assembly (DA) calling for a statement expressing opposition to the appointment of recently appointed state education commissioner MaryEllen Elia pointing to the lack of transparency and democracy in the process of her appointment which …
As you have surely heard by now, the Board of Regents unanimously elected MaryEllen Elia as the new state education commissioner. Elia, who supports the Common Core, high stakes testing, test based teacher evaluation schemes, voucher programs, and charter schools, was a predictably disastrous hiring. She recently was fired as a superintendent in Florida where …
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