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2010 Candidates Forum: Watch the video!

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 First ever Candidates Forum for the UFT elections hosted by Teachers Unite and NYCoRE!

Click here to view the opening and closing statements. Each video segment is 10 minutes.

When a union works with parents to fight privatization: News from LA

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Charter Schools Iced, Los Angeles Teachers Win Bids To Run New Schools
by Paul Abowd | Wed, 02/24/2010 - 5:01pm

 

Teachers packed a February 23 school board meeting and rallied after winning bids to run 29 district schools. Yesterday’s competition is just the first round of what promises to be a titanic fight between charter operators and union-backed coalitions in Los Angeles as 250 district schools will be opened to outside bids in the next several years. 

Charter school companies in Los Angeles were licking their chopslast summer when the school board gave outside managers a chance to operate 36 schools next year.

Greed and Sleaze behind Charter Schools: An Expose by Juan Gonzalez

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Eva Moskowitz has special access to Schools Chancellor Klein - and support others can only dream of
Juan Gonzalez - News
Thursday, February 25th 2010, 4:00 AM

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Eva Moskowitz and Joel Klein share a laugh last year.
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Schools Chancellor Joel Klein often lauds a small group of Harlem charter schools founded by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz.

New Politics blog post by Lois Weiner: Winds of Change in US Teacher Unions

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Winds of change in US teacher unions
Lois Weiner February 18, 2010

Though you wouldn’t know it from the mass media, which focuses its attention on the way teacher unions impede “educational innovation,” (e.g., standardized testing’s stranglehold; privatization; cuts in funding), we are witnessing a growing swell of reform in teacher unions. Transformation of both national teacher unions is absolutely essential to turn back the neoliberal program that the Obama administration is pushing.

Rank and File Chicago Teachers Push Back on Obama Education Agenda

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 Teachers File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama Administration's School "Turnaround" Plan.

 

Teachers Unite stands in solidarity with CORE in Chicago! What can we learn from them?

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