[cs_edworkers] Re: CSEW -- upcoming stuff -- Protest Moskowitz' Success Academies, and etc.
- From: Irina Langman <irinalangman@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cs_edworkers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 09:58:40 -0700
I think the proposal about the flyer sounds good.
Irina
> On Jan 5, 2015, at 4:01 PM, Marjorie Stamberg <marjoriestamberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Going forward--here are a couple proposals for CSEW plans for the winter,
>
> 1) I applied for us to give a workshop at NYCORE in March (on Mexico students
> and teachers) but this year we may be rejected because of our line on the
> cops; MORE just posted its "deepest condolences", as you see from their
> website.....
>
> 2) On Thursday, several of us are going to the public hearing to protest Eva
> Moskowitz' "Success Academies" expansion into District 1 (Lower East Side).
> This expansion directly affect's Mia's school and her principal is fighting
> this, and has invited staff to attend. I will try to get on the speakers'
> list -- they start taking sign-ups at 5:30.
>
> 3) Cuomo will give his state of the state address on Jan 21, and this he will
> devote to targeting teachers. The union-busters are screaming that very few
> teachers got low ratings, supposedly because the UFT and AFT created so many
> obstacles to firing them. (This begs another possibility, namely, that most
> teachers are actually good teachers...)
>
> The new agenda will be for tougher teacher tenure rules (stretching out the
> no. of years) and a faster dismissal process. This includes making the
> arbitrators at dismissal hearings state employees (!)
>
> They also want to take away "local measures" in evaluating teachers resulting
> from collective bargaining --i.e. everything that was bargained in the UFT
> contract. Double the weight of standardized common core test scores.
>
> They want to raise the cap on charters schools.
>
> They want a state takeover of low performing schools -- hello Cami Anderson
> and the Newark solution!
>
> So it's going to get hot and heavy starting very soon.
>
> I would like to propose we do a Marxist discussion series-- hopefully on a
> monthly basis, but we do not need to promise that. Topics including NY State
> attacks on teachers, California tenure battles, Mexico battles over education
> (Ayotzinapa), and, importantly, race and class in teacher organizing. (MORE
> has lurched deeply to the right), the ISO has pulled way back, and there are
> some reactive proposals about the need for an "uncaucus" now going around.
>
> I'd like to have a flyer inviting people to a discussion, to hand out at the
> Thursday Jan 8 event
>
> What do people think?
>
> -------------------------
> Details on Thursday Jan 8 public hearing:
>
> Public Hearing-Say No To Success Charter in District 1
> January 8, 2015 at 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
> PS 20 Anna Silver School 166 Essex Street New York, NY 10002
>
>
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