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Posted on May 21, 2013 by thepjsta

June 8th Rally Update

There are 50 PJSTA members registered to go to the Rally and we have room for more if you would like to join us… The PJSTA bus will leave from the Suffolk Regional Office at 7:15am… Please be punctual…

Rally Schedule & Location

The rally is scheduled to start at noon on the Empire State Plaza across the street from the capitol building and last for 2 to 3 hours, with buses departing the event as soon thereafter as possible.

The PJSTA Bus Will be leaving Leaving from the Suffolk RO in Hauppauge

Buses from this location are scheduled to leave at 7:15 AM and are tentatively scheduled to return at 6:30 PM.

Automobile Parking –

Drivers please be advised that NYSUT is recommending that you take the bus!! Parking will be very difficult at best and far from the rally location. Please let me know if you want to take the bus. Here is the link for parking garages and lots in the downtown Albany area. www.parkalbany.com.

Food

The PJSTA will be providing lunch on the bus. Light refreshments, coffee. and water will also be provided in the morning.

T-Shirts- wear your PJSTA testing shirts!

NYSUT Web Site

A great deal of information regarding the Rally can be found at: www.nysut.org.

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Posted on April 26, 2013 by thepjsta

Arne Duncan, Jeb Bush… More Crooked Politicians

President Obama’s education hack Arne Duncan had a clout list of people he’d do special favors for… via Fred Klonsky

Critics question the ethics of Jeb Bush… via Ravitch

Education deform cronies Barack Obama, Jeb Bush, and Arne Duncan (background) show each other love.

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Posted on April 15, 2013 by thepjsta

“Learning is more than a test score…” Tee-shirts

Just a reminder, PJSTA members should be wearing their “Learning is more than a test score” tee-shirts tomorrow for the first day of the 2013 ELA exam.

North Bellmore’s BOE joined Comsewogue’s last week in issuing a resolution against the use of standardized testing in New York State.

Another Newsday hatchet job here.

Long Island Opt Out’s Jeannette Brunelle Deutermann responded with the following…

Newsday, you have missed the mark yet again. There is an awakening that has been occurring throughout Long Island, New York State, and the Nation. Parents are finally educating themselves on the state of our educational system, and we are horrified by what we have found. Excessive testing on educationally inappropriate material, an experimental common core curriculum which eliminates inspired and creative learning, selling of our children’s data without our consent, and a system which vilifies the only component in this equation putting our children first; the teachers. John King, whose own children do not take part in state assessments, claims his goal is “college ready learners”. Instead he is creating an epidemic of children who are uninspired, dispassionate, bored, and stressed; An epidemic of children who hate school. What is the use of “college ready” when our children won’t even WANT to go to college?

Educators warned the State years ago that if they continued to leave teachers, parents and students out of the equation, the parents would eventually rise up. And rise up we have. Newsday has discounted us as troublemakers and complainers. We are over 7,000 strong JUST ON LONG ISLAND, and our numbers grow by the day. We will no longer sit idly by while businessmen and politicians dismantle our educational system. We will take back our schools. Thousands of children across the State will not be taking part in this week’s state tests. Do not discount us. We will be heard.