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Monday, September 12, 2011

NYC Educator: The Voice of the People

NYC Educator: The Voice of the People:

The Voice of the People

This week, UFT chapter leaders and delegates received an extraordinary invite:

Vice President Joe Biden invites you and your colleagues in education to join him for a conference call on Monday, Sept. 12 to discuss the administration’s commitment to preventing teacher layoffs.

Wow. A chance to discuss what this administration has done to prevent teacher layoffs. A chance to ask why on earth they would praise a school for firing the entire staff. A chance to ask why on earth they would pick an Education Secretary with failed local program and replicate it for the entire country. A chance to ask