Teachers Unite Announcements

 Teachers Unite and the Right to the City

Wednesday, March 17th
5-7pm
90 John St.
Suite 308

RSVP to JESSICA.SHILLER@lehman.cuny.edu for more details

WHAT IS *RIGHT TO THE CITY*?

It's a new kind of urban politics that asserts that everyone,
particularly the disenfranchised, not only has a right to the city,
but as inhabitants, have a right to shape it, design it, and
operationalize an urban human rights agenda.

Right to the City Alliance (http://www.righttothecity.org) emerged in 2007 to halt the displacement of low-income people, LGBTQ, and youth of color from the neighborhoods they have been living in for years.

HOW IS TEACHERS UNITE GETTING INVOLVED?

Charter Schools Iced, Los Angeles Teachers Win Bids To Run New Schools
by Paul Abowd | Wed, 02/24/2010 - 5:01pm

Teachers packed a February 23 school board meeting and rallied after winning bids to run 29 district schools. Yesterday’s competition is just the first round of what promises to be a titanic fight between charter operators and union-backed coalitions in Los Angeles as 250 district schools will be opened to outside bids in the next several years. 

Charter school companies in Los Angeles were licking their chopslast summer when the school board gave outside managers a chance to operate 36 schools next year.

Eva Moskowitz has special access to Schools Chancellor Klein - and support others can only dream of
Juan Gonzalez - News
Thursday, February 25th 2010, 4:00 AM

Lombard for News
Eva Moskowitz and Joel Klein share a laugh last year.
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Schools Chancellor Joel Klein often lauds a small group of Harlem charter schools founded by former City Councilwoman Eva Moskowitz.

Winds of change in US teacher unions
Lois Weiner February 18, 2010

Though you wouldn’t know it from the mass media, which focuses its attention on the way teacher unions impede “educational innovation,” (e.g., standardized testing’s stranglehold; privatization; cuts in funding), we are witnessing a growing swell of reform in teacher unions. Transformation of both national teacher unions is absolutely essential to turn back the neoliberal program that the Obama administration is pushing.

 Teachers File Racial Discrimination Suit Against Obama Administration's School "Turnaround" Plan.

Teachers Unite stands in solidarity with CORE in Chicago! What can we learn from them?

http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/teachers-file-racial-discrimination-suit-against-obama-administrations-school-“turnaround”-p

http://labornotes.org/node/2472

Teacher Reformers Prepare for Battle over Public Education

— Paul Abowd

Click to view video:  http://blip.tv/file/2428857

 Right to the City NYC (RTTC-NYC) alliance is very excited to share with you the recently completed 2009 Right to the City NYC Policy Platform.  Thi

Published 5/13/09 in Edutopia

by Evantheia Schibsted

A recent report found that educators believe that the secret to effective discipline is proactively building relationships, not reacting punitively to student misbehavior. In surveys with 300 New York City public school teachers that included an open-ended question about the largest threat to school safety, the most common response was a lack of cohesive culture and positive relationships between staff and students. (Download a PDF of the report, "Teachers Talk: School Culture, Safety and Human Rights.")