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Unity’s Attack on Dimino & Reducing VOTE-COPE
A few days ago, New York State’s Unity Caucus, the controlling caucus of NYSUT and the statewide extension of the UFT’s Unity Caucus, published a piece on their blog attacking PJSTA President Beth Dimino. In the post Dimino is accused of working for her own political gain while attempting to “squelch the voice of educators, SRPs, …
Receivership, #TeachStrong, and STCaucus
Some interesting news stories involving education and, by extension, teacher unions have broken recently. After a lot of contemplation a few things regarding our unions have really come to the forefront of my thoughts. Let’s get to the issues at hand first. First, we recently learned that NYSED Commissioner MaryEllen Elia was using Governor Cuomo’s new …
Reactions to the New NYSED Commissioner
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 …
Some Union News
Some interesting teacher union tidbits coming in this week… One of the largest NYSUT locals, the Buffalo Teachers Federation, concluded a contested election for it’s leadership. President Phil Rumore, won re-election with 707 votes. Challengers Pat Foster and Marc Bruno had 344 and 299 votes respectively. What is interesting is that Rumore had about 52% …
Who is the Stronger Together Caucus?
Anyone who paid attention to the news coming out of the NYSUT RA which was held this past weekend in Buffalo, likely heard of the standing room only crowd in the Stronger Together Caucus (STCaucus) meeting. As a matter of fact I had several delegates approach me and tell me that the caucus meeting was …
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