Memo to New York Teachers: F*ck You, Pay Me.
Lost seniority rights? Fuck you pay me. Lost due process rights? Fuck you pay me. Lost your pension? Fuck you pay me.Just keep paying and absolutely nothing will change—that's a promise.It's a proud...
View ArticleCuomo Wants to Replace Machines with Technology
Huh?In a recent interview at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo continued his assault on public education, logic and the English language: I was watching some crazy...
View ArticleThe Good, the Bad and the Putrid
This blog has never been about a person. It's about ideas—the good, the bad and the putrid.However, people who stunt good ideas and try to graft putrid ones upon them are regularly rebuked in this...
View ArticleThe College and Career Readiness is All
A recent report by anti-public schools group StudentsFirstNY alleges that New York City schools are passing too many kids. The charter school charlatans request "an independent audit of school...
View ArticleOn Cuomo and Incompetency Based Education
Like sweet soma in Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World, a dose of "competency based" education has arrived to pacify the public. Rather than with super-sized standardized tests taken once a...
View ArticlePaladino Attacks B-Lo Blogger, Invokes Roosevelt
B-lo blogging brother Sean Crowley recently drew the ire of former New York gubernatorial candidate and all-around assclown Carl Paladino:"As for Sean Crowley, I observe him as an irresponsible,...
View ArticleDon't be Fooled by Cuomo's Mea Culpa on Testing
As New York Governor Andrew Cuomo pretends to listen to parents and teachers, he hopes they don't know how to read. Buried at the bottom of a recent press release announcing the "recommendations" of...
View ArticleMulgrew Declares Victory, Promptly Surrenders
What do over 200 politicians do in an election year?That's right—hide out in their offices.At least the head of New York's largest teachers union seems to think so. At a recent meeting, United...
View ArticleNYSUT Asks Teachers to Fire Themselves
Is self-immolation back in style?Rather than urging members to reject high-stakes tests, New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) is pining for teachers to create the tests, even though the state fully...
View ArticleNYSUT Bargains Without the Collective
With a case before the Supreme Court that could eviscerate public sector unions, more American workers may soon see their salaries and savings evaporate. The case of Friedrichs vs. California Teachers...
View ArticleBeware the Ides of Testing
Great news, New York! Your kids will have the chance to take standardized tests even earlier next year! The New York Education Department (NYSED) has ruled that the Big Tests will now go down in March...
View ArticleCuomo Still Holding School Budgets Hostage over Teacher Evaluation Law
Stay classy, New York. In news more inevitable than Donald Trump dick jokes, school districts across New York State have soundly rebuked Governor Andrew Cuomo's latest teacher evaluation law (3012-d)....
View ArticleLocal Control? New York Schools Need Not Apply
As things go, the 1998 film The Siege is remarkably prescient. Terrorist bombs and bullets bombard Manhattan as New York FBI agent Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) gives way to the maniacal whims of...
View ArticleThe PARCC Test: Exposed
The author of this blog posting is a public school teacher who will remain anonymous.I will not reveal my district or my role due to the intense legal ramifications for exercising my Constitutional...
View ArticleStronger Together, We Opt-Out
A recent Friday news dump by the New York State Education Department (NYSED) reported that more than 20% of public school parents are still refusing to subject their children to grades 3-8 standardized...
View ArticleNYSUT in Need of Help! for the Heavy Hearts Club
The Heavy Hearts Club turned their backs on teachers in 2015 Got cash to burn? New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) is interested.The Union needs lots of dough to help re-elect those who recently...
View ArticleCuomo Appears at UFT Headquarters to Honor...Firefighters
Straining to burnish his Union bonafides, New York Governor Andy Cuomo recently appeared at the Manhattan headquarters of the United Federation of Teachers (UFT). Cuomo surfaced not in support of...
View ArticleCuomo Names Mulgrew President of NYSUT
Cuomo and Mulgrew: Together AgainNew York Governor Andy Cuomo recently emerged at a Queens high school to name Michael Mulgrew the new president of NYSUT, the statewide teachers union. That's...
View ArticleWeingarten Threatens Nurses for Backing Bernie
Rhonda "Randi" Weingarten It was only a matter of time before Wikileaks uprooted more evidence of Democrats eating their own. The latest is an email from Randi Weingarten, President of the American...
View ArticleDonald Trump Sics his Children on Public Education
Ivanka Trump with Eva "I'm not a Republican" MoskowitzPresident Donald Trump's arrival on January 20 brings with it, among other toxins, an unprecedented threat to middle-class workers across the...
View ArticleIndomitable Drumpf
He attacked immigrants and won.He attacked women and won.He attacked the disabled and won.He attacked veterans and won.He attacked the Truth and won.Who's...
View ArticleDonald Trump's Conflicts with the Constitution
The looming inauguration of Donald J. Trump Dump has American stupidity scraping the abyss. Look no further for evidence of this than our future leader's command of the English language and his own...
View ArticleA Constitutional Case for Boycotting the Inauguration
If Donald Trump thought Barack Obama was an illegitimate president, he needs to look in the mirror this Friday afternoon.Trump's infamous fixation on Obama's birth certificate was fueled by an alleged...
View ArticleLillis, Pallotta, to Challenge Magee for NYSUT President
The political winds aren't brisk enough so let's throw a NYSUT election into the mix.Come April 8, current NYSUT president Karen Magee will either be out of a job or preparing to run the union into the...
View ArticleAndrew Cuomo is Mr. Anonymous (no, not that one)
Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo before a mayoral debate New York City, 1977.With Reggie Jackson calling shots, the race for mayor was on between Cuomo and Koch.Mario Cuomo had decided that he wanted to be the...
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