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Learning Environment Surveys – Does Your Principal Respect You?

(from the New Action leaflet distributed at the December 2012 UFT Delegate Assembly).
For a printable version click: Leaflet 2012 December

At many schools a majority of teachers disagreed with the statement “I feel respected by the principal.” If there are extenuating circumstances for a school listed here, let us know, and we will correct the information (perhaps some principals were removed?). The list excludes schools where the response rate is under 50%. Here are the top twenty:

Dist	Borough	School	Not respected
12	Bronx	P.S. 044 David C. Farragut	80%
17	Brooklyn	Paul Robeson High School	79%
5	Manhattan	Academy For Social Action: A College Board School	73%
23	Brooklyn	P.S. 150 Christopher	70%
30	Queens	P.S. 127 Aerospace Science Magne	68%
9	Bronx	P.S. 132 Garret A. Morgan	68%
31	Staten Island	P.S. 019 The Curtis School	67%
21	Brooklyn	P.S. 90 Edna Cohen School	66%
11	Bronx	P.S. 108 Philip J. Abinanti	65%
25	Queens	P.S. 165 Edith K. Bergtraum	64%
10	Bronx	The Celia Cruz Bronx High School Of Music	64%
2	Manhattan	N.Y.C. Museum School	63%
5	Manhattan	P.S. 133 Fred R Moore	63%
24	Queens	P.S. 290	63%
29	Queens	P.S. 118 Lorraine Hansberry	63%
18	Brooklyn	Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School	60%
24	Queens	P.S. 58 – School Of Heroes	59%
30	Queens	I.S. 230	59%
9	Bronx	Bronx Early College Academy For Teaching & Learning	59%
2	Manhattan	Murry Bergtraum High School For Business Careers	58%

“Abusive Administrators” — a real and ongoing problem in many schools

Published December 17, 2012 Abusive Administrators , New York CIty Department of Education , NYC , UFT , United Federation of Teachers Closed

(from the New Action leaflet distributed at the December 2012 UFT Delegate Assembly).
For a printable version click: Leaflet 2012 December

New Action continues to receive numerous reports about abusive administrators. The DOE itself now says that the Principals Leadership Academy has not worked. See the December 6, 2012 issue of the New York Teacher (editorial on page 8). New Action has been saying this since the inception of the “Leadership Academy.” Not long along New Action put out a leaflet that laid out 14 steps to deal with abusive principals. It first requires serious solidarity amongst the staff to be successful.

Look at our list at our website. Consult your DR. Speak with colleagues about ways to support one another.

Diversity in New York City Schools

Published December 15, 2012 New Action , New York CIty Department of Education , UFT , United Federation of Teachers Closed
Tags: Diversity, Specialized High Schools

(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.

New Action – UFT

Archive Page 108

Learning Environment Surveys – Does Your Principal Respect You?

“Abusive Administrators” — a real and ongoing problem in many schools

Diversity in New York City Schools

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