NEW DOE OUTRAGE – “GALAXY FLAGGING”
From the May 2012 New Action Delegate Assembly leaflet. For the entire leaflet, click: Leaflet 2012 May (sign the petition against Mayoral Control, support the resolution against Stop and Frisk, and this piece) “employees who have been the subject of disciplinary action will be identified with a
Petition to End Mayoral Control
This one needs no explanation. Mayoral Control has been a disaster for students, parents, teachers, schools – even in many cases for administrators. Download the petition to add your voice, your coworkers’ voices, your neighbors’ voices. Print as many as you like. Completed petitio
New Action Call for Justice for Trayvon Martin
from the April 2012 New Action Delegate Assembly leaflet: Leaflet 2012 April On March 26, 2012, New Action leaders on the UFT Executive Board put our union on record, calling for justice for Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman, a “neighborhood watch volunteer” admitted he shot and killed 15 year o
OPPOSE THE NYPD’S “STOP AND FRISK” PRACTICES
From New Action’s April 2012 Delegate Assembly leaflet: Leaflet 2012 April Since 2002 the number of NYPD stops of African-Americans and Latinos has jumped nearly 700%. In 2011 685,000 stop and searches were conducted by the NYPD. As today’s resolution states,“87 percent of the people sto
TEACHER DATA REPORTS – TIME for DIRECT RESPONSE
New Action/UFT …a caucus of the United Federation of Teachers PO Box 180574 North Richmond Hill, NY 11418 http://newaction.wordpress.com/ March 2012 TEACHER DATA REPORTS – TIME for DIRECT RESPONSE Bloomberg can point a finger at the courts and say they did it. But the publication in the media ha
End Mayoral Control; We need a day of solidarity; Beat back Tier 6
From the February 2012 New Action Delegate Assembly Leaflet. For the original leaflet, click: Leaflet 2012 February New Action/UFT …a caucus of the United Federation of Teachers PO Box 180574 North Richmond Hill, NY 11418 http://newaction.wordpress.com/ February 2012 TIME TO CALL FOR AN END
New Action opposed the UFT Constitutional Amendments
January 2012 (Click for PDF version: Leaflet 2012 January) VOTE NO DELAY CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES GUARANTEE REPRESENTATION FOR ALL On Monday, December 19 2011, New Action Executive Board members and co-chairs Jon Halabi and Michael Shulman spoke against the proposed changes to the UFT Constitution.
A Primer on School Change / 14 Steps to get rid of an abusive administrator
Click here: DA Leaflet December 2011 (for a printable version of this leaflet). December 2011 Mayor Mike Bloomberg this past week declared that if he had his way he’d dump half of NYC’s teachers and raise class size. He stated that he would “weed out all the bad ones.” This attitude filt
Support Dignity for ATRs
from the October 2011 New Action leaflet for the UFT Delegate Assembly New Action is proud to support this bipartisan resolution. As part of the no-layoff agreement, ATRs can be forced to move every week; let’s make sure they are greeted in their new chapters, and that all Chapter Leaders understa
DANIELSON AND TEACHER EVALUATION
October 2011 There has been much discussion of the “Danielson framework” – an evaluation system based on the work of Charlotte Danielson, designed to promote professional conversation and growth. Clearly Department of Education administrators are abusing the framework, using it to promote driv