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Off to Chicago
My flight is delayed 40 minutes, so I have a few more seconds of free Tampa airport wireless. I’m a delegate to the AFT national convention this weekend, and I have no idea how much time I’ll have online. I’ve brought some work with me in case I get bored (ha!). I return in the […]
The costs of layoffs
It looks like faculty at USF are “getting off” lightly in terms of layoffs by almost any measure. I have some questions remaining about the choices available to my institution, but the position of faculty here is better than USF staff and better than those who work in other sectors hit hard by the recession. […]
The rest of the story on the excessed teacher controversy
I had been wondering what else was going on with the controversy over the excessed teacher pool in New York City. The politics here just seemed as if something was missing. Leo Casey calls it a naked political power play and lays out UFT’s perspective, along with a trail of specifics. The core of the […]
An NEA member at the head of AFT?
In all the discussion about Randi Weingarten’s imminent rise to the AFT presidency is one small detail that hasn’t yet been discussed: UFT’s state affiliate NYSUT is now merged and affiliated with both NEA and AFT. Which makes Weingarten an NEA member. I have no clue whether Weingarten is a delegate to the NEA convention […]
Insomnia and IHE
If you’re here because of the IHE article, welcome! Look around, add comments, subscribe to the RSS feed, and come back often. Here’s the story behind Scott Jaschik’s piece: I was awake early Sunday morning (or in the wee hours between Saturday and Sunday) and in shape to do not much more than crawl through […]