Saving high school tech
This isn’t about budget cuts. High school tech at Middleburgh High School was flooded out. NYSUT Secretary-Treasurer Lee Cutler and staffers Lynette Metz and Dave Adkins met with Middleburgh TA...
View ArticleSchool cuts hurt
Events for the Alliance for Quality Education’s week of action kick off today. Long Island is first at 11 a.m. followed by New York City at noon.Then the rally in Massena starts at 6:30 tonight. Here’s...
View ArticleSchool cuts still hurt
Events for the Alliance for Quality Education’s week of action continue today. There’s event’s at 4:30 in Poughkeepsie, at 5:30 p.m. at Niagara Square in Buffalo and at 6 p.m. in Albany, Rochester and...
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Speaking against cuts
A week of events against how state aid cuts hurt ends today. Here’s some links to coverage from Syracuse, from New York City, from Poughkeepsie, and from Albany. Here’s a pic from Massena Here’s...
View ArticleHow long can schools survive?
That’s the question a group of school superintendent bring up in this article from the Ithaca Journal. Here’s a few specifics: Trumansburg Superintendent Paula Hurley said she is sick of watching...
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Next #nysutchat on how budget cuts hurt
Now that schools and colleges are finishing up their second month of the 2011-12 school year, folks should have some concrete, specific examples of how the budget that lawmakers approved in April is...
View ArticleRemember #nysutchat tonight
Is it the third NYSUT tweetup tonight? Sure is. Remember our topic is “What’s the impact of budget cuts on your _______ (fill in the blank with students, classroom, school, district, college, lab,...
View ArticleTweetup Recap: What’s the impact of budget cuts in your school district?...
We had another good #nysutchat Sunday night as local union tweeters offered specific examples of the impact of budget cuts enacted by lawmakers in April. Tweeters weren’t content to just leave it...
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Anybody still got those glowsticks?
NYSUT political action leaders will join members from a variety of labor unions and other community activists on Friday to show support for the Occupy Albany events. The vigil will run from 6 to 7:30...
View ArticleStudents pay the price
Back to Inequality is the title of the Alliance for Quality Education’s report about the impact of state budget cuts. The report gives details of each of the state’s 684 public school districts by...
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