The Offical Website of the PJSTA

Pearson, the textbook company who is famously close with our beloved Governor Cuomo, has recently shut down nearly 1.5 million teacher and student blogs because one of the teachers using Edublogs had illegally posted the 20 question, 279 word Beck’s Hopelessness Scale in a 2007 blog post.   The 38 year old document is being sold by Pearson for …

Bring signs to Thursday’s rally!

Here is a story from the Port Jefferson Patch about this Thursday’s Educate NY Now! rally at JFK.  A few notes for PJSTA members about the rally: EVERY PJSTA member should be there!  You are more than welcome to bring your children. Bring signs.  Anything about the tax cap or how testing and the evaluation …

This article dealing with why Wall Street wants to get their hands on public education. This Washington Post article on how test based teacher evaluations hurt students.

Educate NY Now! hosted a rally attended by roughly 100 educators and community members yesterday in front of the Dennison Building on Veterans Highway in Hauppauge.  Thank you to Christine Hegyi, Laurie Tilmont, Debbie Rosenquist, Tony Sylvain, Nicole Taormina, Mark Karwoski, and Brian St. Pierre for representing the PJSTA at the rally.