Michael Mulgrew

New York Teacher Ratings Produce A Rallying Cry For The Union

The New York Times | Fernanda Santos | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: New York Teachers Union, Teacher Evaluations, Teacher Ratings, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, United Federation of Teachers, New York Teacher Ratings, Michael Mulgrew, Education News

In the days leading up to the release of ratings for thousands of New York City public-school teachers on Friday, hundreds of e-mails poured into the ...

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Bloomberg: Cut Teachers By Half, Double The Pay

Posted 02.01.2012

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In remarks Thursday that have since sparked some controversy, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg tackled school improvement -- through a suggestion...

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Matt Sledge

Reawakening The Radical Imagination: The Origins Of Occupy Wall Street

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 01.10.2012

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Three months ago, a loosely organized group of activists concerned about growing income inequality, corporate greed and the global influence of powerf...

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Joy Resmovits

Budget Cuts Hobble Schools In New York And Nationwide

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 01.01.2012

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NEW YORK -- By the end of this year, Seung Lee, a science teacher at lower Manhattan's P.S. 1, expects to have spent $500 from his own pocket on schoo...

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Joy Resmovits

Rate Teachers Together, Not One By One

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Education News, Education, Peter Gorman, Education Policy, Teacher Evaluation, No Child Left Behind, United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, Standardized Tests, Teachers Unions, New Visions for Public Schools, Derek Neal, Brookings Institution, Education News

WASHINGTON -- Standardized tests should rank students by percentile and rate teachers in teams, according to a new policy brief by Derek Neal, an econ...

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New York Ordered to Release Student Test Data With Teachers' Names Attached

The Wall Street Journal | Lisa Fleisher | Posted 10.25.2011

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By Lisa Fleisher, The Wall Street Journal A New York state appellate court has ruled New York City must release reports that measure public school ...

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Joy Resmovits

Union Letter: Murdoch's Company Should Not Have Access To Student Data

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.05.2011

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NEW YORK -- New York should drop a $27 million contract with Wireless Generation, a Rupert Murdoch-owned student data tracking company, in light of Ne...

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Joy Resmovits

Court Decision Allows New York City To Proceed With School Closures

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.21.2011

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NEW YORK -- A New York judge's Thursday night decision clears the way for the New York City Department of Education to proceed with its plan to close ...

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Union And City Reach Agreement On Teacher Grading System

Posted 09.16.2011

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The New York City Department of Education and the United Federation of Teachers agreed Friday on an evaluation and compensation system at 33 failing c...

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Matt Sledge

PHOTOS: Thousands Of Teachers Swarm Wall Street In Protest

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 07.12.2011

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Thousands of teachers, social workers, union members and more took part in a march Thursday against Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plans for wide-ranging b...

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Teachers Union Spends Millions On Parties, Dinners, DVDs

Posted 05.25.2011

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The Daily News today is drawing some attention the The United Federation of Teachers' spending. Namely, that they spent $1.4 million on a 50th anniver...

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$10M Pledge For Tutors? 'We're Gonna Find The Money Someplace'

Posted 05.25.2011

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Mayor Bloomberg is directing $10 million to provide tutors for students who are falling behind. From Gotham Schools: Nearly six months after the cit...

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Educating for Democracy: What Cathie Black Would Say if She Were an Educator

Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joel Shatzky

If Ms. Black had had any knowledge of the NYC school system, the difficulties faced by many students, teachers and parents, here's what she might have said.

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Cathie Black SLAMS Teachers' Tenure As 'LIfetime Guarantee'

Posted 05.25.2011

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Newly appointed Schools Chancellor Cathie Black wasted no time before attacking the tenure system, much maligned by her boss, Mayor Bloomberg. Blac...

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Interviewing the New NYC Schools Chancellor (Animated Video)

Dan Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Brown

Mayor Michael Bloomberg set off shockwaves when he picked media executive Cathie Black to be the next chancellor of New York City's public schools. As...

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You Don't Have to Deny the Arts To Succeed: MS223 in The South Bronx, a 2010 Intel School of Distinction

Richard Kessler | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Kessler

Ramon Gonzalez and his faculty at MS223 have managed to take time from test prep for reading and math to build in exchange for a quality arts program,...

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Rubber Rooms: Gone From New York City, But Alive Elsewhere?

Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waiting for Superman, William Safire, United Federation of Teachers, Franz Kafka, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Mulgrew, Joel Klein, Steven Brill, Rubber Rooms, Davis Guggenheim, New York City, New York News
Justin Snider

Monday, June 28th, was the final day of the 2009-10 school year in New York City, which means the city's infamous "rubber rooms" also closed their doors. For good.

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