Showing posts with label UFT sell-out. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UFT sell-out. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Why in the era of Newtown and Parkland are ATRs denied keys for locking their room?

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Last week 17 people, students and staff, have lost their lives to gun violence on campus. One key way that teachers helped many students...
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Monday, July 3, 2017

ATRs, in a conundrum of being stuck in the DOE hustle

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An ATR weighs in on our potentially disastrous future. The concern at this point is that unfortunately, ATRs are EERILY still in the same...
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Thursday, November 26, 2015

In the season of ATR liquidation, some sobering realities of how excessed teachers in other cities are much luckier

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The DeBlasio-Farina liquidation of the ATRs via U ratings by field supervisors for ATR performances in subbing settings within student stra...
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Monday, November 23, 2015

The field supervision program deceives on its pledge to help place teachers, so why does the UFT support the DOE's program?

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The United Federation of Teachers backs the New York City DOE's observation program of teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve. Read th...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Tired, old, excuses

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  Yesterday   was the last day of the school year, 2014/2015.  It was the year that all of us had longed for, after 12, long, agonizing yea...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015

NYC DOE Job fairs, ATRs need not apply, only inexperienced preferred

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An ATR writes: The Department of Education has been holding job fairs this month. But invitations have only been sent to new teacher recru...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Field Supervisors, the proverbial DOE Sandmen vs. ATRs

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Teacher ratings for the year are out and the DOE is giving career jeopardizing evaluation ratings that arise from teaching in substituting...
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Friday, April 3, 2015

What the UFT says about unfair observations

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The UFT has sent word that any ATRs that feel that they have unfairly received U ratings should contact Amy Arundell [aarundell@uft.org] or ...
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

An ATR's letter to Mulgrew on phony mandated interviews

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A letter to UFT president Mulgrew, whose union represents also paraprofessionals, who get placed when excessed from a school, but cannot en...
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Monday, March 23, 2015

Why the stakes are high in veteran teacher terminations: 'Retirement' without quality pensions

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Harper's Magazine had a sobering August, 2014 article, "The End of Retirement," in which Jessica Bruder reported on retirees t...