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NEW ACTION SLATE 2013

Published March 24, 2013 New Action , UFT elections Closed

OFFICERS
President Michael Mulgrew, Wm. Grady HS
Secretary Carol Widom, PS 219K
Assistant Secretary Cheryl F. Hawkins, PS/IS 150K, Retired
Treasurer Ronald Leung, Fort Hamilton HS
Assistant Treasurer Bruce Rajswasser, Curtis HS
VP, at Large Gregory DiStefano, Tottenville HS, Retired, UFT Organizing Committee
VP, Special Education Tom McDonough NYC Museum School
VP, Elementary Ama Willock, PS 245K
VP, IS/JHS/MS Nelson Santiago, IS 63R
VP, Academic HS John McCabe III Tottenville HS

EXECUTIVE BOARD ELEMENTARY
Rachael Bulla
Alyssa Colarossi
Sharon Coughlin
Lauren Donner
Lynn Halligan
Phylicita Nelson-Walker
Tracey Pearson
Marva St Clair
Michael Streiker
Earl Terrill
Almarie Walker

EXECUTIVE BOARD IS/JHS/MS
Ginger Brown
Diana Buono
Jessica Carter Mendiata
Yrvin Espinal
Bea Robertson

EXECUTIVE BOARD HIGH SCHOOL
Alan Ettman, DeWitt Clinton HS
Keith Fessel, Ft Hamilton HS
William Goldman, Tottenville HS
Jonathan Halabi HS of American Studies
Anthony Klug, Wadleigh HS
Greg Lundahl, Washington Irving HS
James Vasquez, Newcomers HS

EXECUTIVE BOARD FUNCTIONAL
Irina Benediktova, School Psychologist
Noelle Delli Paoli, Guidance Counselor
Bernadette D’Onofrio, Social Worker
Jacques Dorcely, School Psychologist
Richard Dunlop, Social Worker
Barbara Falik, School Psychologist
Linda Langen, Paraprofessional
Dalia Maxwell, School Psychologist
Osama Mostafa, Guidance Counselor
Eve Rittle, School Secretary
Katherine Sisco, Paraprofessional

EXECUTIVE BOARD AT-LARGE
Jonas Abry
Kuljit Ahluwalia
Chris Ballerini
Charles Bayor
Joel Berger
Kim Brown
Lisa Buono
Dawn L. Campbell
John G Carlson
Linda Costello
Maurice Crooks
Angelo D’Angelo
Diane De Bernardo
Robert Dehler
Francis D’Souza
Nelson Espinal
Paul Feingold
Michael Freydin
Joel Garcia
Regina Gori
Robert Greenberg
Douglas Haynes
Arjun Janah
Mark Karwowski
Martin Kellerman
Jonathan Leventon
Fern Lowenfels
Carl Makower
Kate Martin-Bridge
Ruth McKenzie
Paul Millstein
John D Pallone
Francisco A Peña
Laurence Pittis
Gregorio Quinn
Dacio Quintana
Maria Ramos
Paul Regenbogen
Jon Dennis Regier
Paula Rogovin
Judy Rosenstein
Linda Scheer
Michael Sherwood
Michael Shulman
Justo Soriano
Barbara Stensholt
Diane Vines
David Widom

Why New Action opposes the recommendations to modify mayoral control

Published March 19, 2013 New Action , UFT 1 Comment
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At Monday’s Executive Board the Committee on School Governance presented a set of School Governance Recommendations.

The committee worked hard on its recommendations. The individual proposals are positive.  But they are framed as modifications, as checks and balances on Mayoral Control.

One of the positive proposals deserves special mention. The UFT now stands for no waiver for the Chancellor. New Action’s David Kaufman made just such a proposal, well-reasoned, last time we had a governance report. And it was roundly, and wrongly, rejected. We wish that Dave were here today to see the union belatedly adopting his proposal.

New Action has opposed Mayoral Control. It has been a disaster for our schools, our students, our members. Last year we circulated petitions calling for an end of Mayoral Control. And we remain opposed to Mayoral Control. This year we declined to serve on the Governance Committee – the correct conclusion – ending Mayoral Control – was obvious.

Thus, at Monday’s Exec Board, we felt compelled to vote against otherwise positive recommendations, for not being part of an overall stance of ending Mayoral Control.

Our union, the UFT, should take the committee’s recommendations, and embed them in a proposal to end Mayoral Control. Then  New Action/UFT would proudly endorse them.

 

An Unfortunate Decade of Mayoral Mistakes

Published March 6, 2013 New Action , UFT , United Federation of Teachers Closed
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(from the New Action leaflet distributed at the February 2013 UFT Delegate Assembly).
For a printable version click: NA/UFT 02/2013 leaflet

Year

New Action Recommends

Did we listen?

Result
2002 No to Mayoral Control No. First Mayoral Control bill gives Bloomberg unfettered control Countless Disruptive Reorganizations – managers (not educators)  dominate the DoE bureaucracy
2009 No Extension of Term Limits No, even though we could have stopped Bloomberg by swinging a handful of City Council votes The worst of Bloomberg’s terms
2009 Let Mayoral Control Sunset No. We put in “checks and balances” …. … but those “checks and balances“ did not limit the mayoral dictatorship
2009 No Waiver for Chancellors No Cathie Black
2009 Endorse Bill Thompson against Bloomberg No, we sit out the election Bloomberg squeaks by for four more years of school closings, abusive administrators,  and mountains of paperwork
2013 Remove Christine Quinn from consideration for our endorsement

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