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Diversity in New York City Schools

Published December 15, 2012 New Action , New York CIty Department of Education , UFT , United Federation of Teachers Closed
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(from the New Action leaflet distributed at the December 2012 UFT Delegate Assembly).
For a printable version click: Leaflet 2012 December

New Action/UFT strongly urges Chapter Leaders and delegates to support today’s [substitute] resolution calling for support to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund /Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund civil rights complaint regarding specialized high school admissions, and further calling for a UFT committee to consider alternatives.

Almost two years ago this body passed a resolution resolving that “the UFT demand that the New York City Department of Education rededicate itself to a policy of actively recruiting and hiring teachers of diverse backgrounds in order to reverse the downward trend of the last eight years in the percentages of African-American and Latino classroom teachers and to diminish the considerable gap between the numbers of African-American and Latino students and the numbers of teachers of color.” It is time to push again for diversity, on all fronts.

What is The Kings College?

Published December 7, 2012 UFT , United Federation of Teachers 1 Comment
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(from the New Action leaflet distributed at the November 2012 UFT Delegate Assembly).
For a printable version click: Leaflet 2012 November

Some of us have noticed that The Kings College is now renting space in 52 Broadway. TKC is an ultra-conservative institution whose president, until recently, was ideologue Dinesh D’Souza. At the November 19 UFT Executive Board New Action co-chair Michael Shulman asked how the decision to rent space to The Kings College was made. The response was that we rent space to many educational institutions, including GED programs and to programs run by the DoE itself, and while The Kings College students are here we will be mingling with them and influencing them.

NEW DOE OUTRAGE – “GALAXY FLAGGING”

Published May 17, 2012 New York CIty Department of Education , UFT , United Federation of Teachers Closed

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 flag symbol in Galaxy” – PWeekly, 5/1/12

NEW DOE OUTRAGE – “GALAXY FLAGGING”

The DOE unilaterally announced a new policy regarding employees who have been the subject of disciplinary action in the Principals Weekly. Employees who have been the subject of disciplinary action will have a flag symbol placed next to their names in Galaxy. “Disciplinary action” could be as little as a letter in file, or verbal reprimand. This “flag” will defame teachers based in some cases only on accusations, in others based on a deal reached to accept a lesser charge to return to work. And employees who are flagged will find it difficult, if not impossible to transfer.

We, the UFT, must consider all possible routes to address this, given that the DOE so often refuses to hold reasonable discussions with us. Our members need a strong response, to stop Bloomberg and Walcott from implementing this injustice.

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