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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Pink Slime: Anna Phillips Reflecting On Dennis M. Walcott's First Year as "Chancellor" - ParentAdvocates.org

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Pink Slime: Anna Phillips Reflecting On Dennis M. Walcott's First Year as "Chancellor" (Without A Contract) by Betsy Combier
re-posted from NYC Rubber Room Reporter: I'm going to address the ridiculous article printed by SchoolBook's Anna Phillips and the media rush the past couple of days to glorify Dennis M. Walcott - and thus praise Mayor Bloomberg - and libel the teachers who, by fighting well with evidence and truth, were not terminated at 3020-a arbitration. 
           
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Pink Slime: Anna Phillips Reflecting On Dennis M. Walcott's First Year as "Chancellor" (Without A Contract)

I'm going to address the ridiculous article printed by SchoolBook's Anna Phillips and the media rush the past couple of days to glorify Dennis M. Walcott - and thus praise Mayor Bloomberg - and libel the teachers who, by fighting well with evidence and truth, were not terminated at 3020-a arbitration, the "teacher trials" .

Anyone who has gone through the 3020-a arbitration in New York City knows it is a set up. NYSUT, UFT, and Department of Education lawyers as well as employees know that this forum is designed to (a) play up the DOE as an agency which values zero tolerance for any act of touching or speaking deemed by them as "improper", if you are a tenured teacher or