via Lisa Colangelo:
Parents always peek into the cafeteria where the kindergarten and first grade classes sit until their teachers come to get them at 8 a.m. Somehow more poignant today — with Ken Knowd.
via Capital New York:
A group backed by New York teachers unions has created a video criticial of Maggie Gyllenhaal for, perhaps inadvertently, siding against them.
Gyllenhaal stars in a new movie that favorably portrays “trigger laws” that make it easier for public schools to be shut down and restructured.
via NY Times
In a public statement sent to reporters just now, the AFL-CIO cheered Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York State legislators for “Passage of Legislation to Protect the Privacy of Educators.”
My story:
“There definitely was an element of teacher-bashing going on,” said the president of the United Federation of Teachers, Michael Mulgrew, standing at the back of the school’s auditorium, where Bloomberg’s speech was delivered.
When I asked about the $20,000 incentive pay, Mulgrew said it hasn’t worked in other school districts.
“The objection is, everywhere it’s been done it’s proven to actually harm the education system,” he said. “It leads to more test prep.”
