Three Resolutions
(from the New Action leaflet distributed at the September 2013 Citywide Chapter Leaders Meeting). For a printable version click: NA/UFT DA Leaflet October 2013 Lesson Plan Resolution New Action Executive Board member, Bill Goldman, Chapter Leader of Tottenville HS, presented the resolution on lesson
The Teacher Evaluation Train Wreck is Unfolding Before Us…
(from the New Action leaflet distributed at the September 2013 Citywide Chapter Leaders Meeting). For a printable version click: NA/UFT DA Leaflet October 2013 The Teacher Evaluation Train Wreck is Unfolding Before Us Since January 2010, New Action’s record on a new Teacher Evaluation System and T
Report from UFT October 7 Executive Board
Open mike – there was only one speaker, Marjorie Stamberg, who spoke about the repression of teachers in Mexico, especially from the south (I think she mentioned Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas). Marjorie spent time this summer in Mexico. She said that she would bring the information to the Comm
Coping with the new teacher evaluation
(from the New Action leaflet distributed at the June 2013 UFT Delegate Assembly). For a printable version click: Leaflet 2013 June Coping with the new teacher evaluation The system is here, like it or not. We are immediately faced with complexities: school-based committee to choose local measures, o
New Action Opposes the New Teacher Evaluation Plan at the June 3 UFT Exec Board
On Monday, June 3, 2013, New Action co-chair, Jonathan Halabi spoke against the newly imposed teacher evaluation system announced by New York State education commissioner John King. King stated that the new system would make it easier to fire teachers with poor evaluations. Mr. King stated that, “
Teacher Evaluation and Binding Arbitration – No Way to Go!
(from the New Action leaflet distributed at the February 2013 UFT Delegate Assembly). For a printable version click: NA/UFT 02/2013 leaflet “Cuomo told Bloomberg and the United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew that if they can’t hammer out an agreement for an evaluation system b