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New Bedford Educators Association: MTA president: Charter initiative would undermine public schools andcommunities
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New Bedford Educators Association. Thursday, August 6, 2015. MTA president: Charter initiative would undermine public schools and communities. Proposal bypasses cap and “blows the lid off of any meaningful restrictions”. MTA President Barbara Madeloni says that a charter ballot initiative filed on Aug. 5 would “effectively obliterate any meaningful caps on charter schools and undermine our public schools and our communities.”. The initiative petition, intended for the November 2016 ballot, purports to ke...
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New Bedford Educators Association: School Committee, superintendent not beholden to City Council .... ByJack Livramento
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New Bedford Educators Association. Friday, June 26, 2015. School Committee, superintendent not beholden to City Council . By Jack Livramento. So I guess the request to attend a council meeting by a council member is not a “request,” it is a “demand.” After verbally abusing Dr. Durkin, Ms. Morad picked up her belongings and stormed out of the meeting without even asking a single question about the budget. Here are just a few points of clarification. 1 Dr Durkin is hired by the School Committee. She is...
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New Bedford Educators Association: Message from President Madeloni
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New Bedford Educators Association. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Message from President Madeloni. RETELL Deadline Moved to Aug. 3. Registration for the fall 2015 Sheltered English Immersion Endorsement courses required under the RETELL initiative begins on Monday, Aug. 3 - later than was previously announced. Click here. It's not too late to sign up for MTA's Summer Conference. With a Book Group. How to Jump-Start Your Union. Read MTA Members' Testimony on Testing. We have now posted testimony. From most of ...
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New Bedford Educators Association: MTA members come out in force for testing moratorium bill
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New Bedford Educators Association. Saturday, June 20, 2015. MTA members come out in force for testing moratorium bill. Of the estimated 300 people who attended the State House hearing on testing on Thursday, June 11, more than 50 were MTA members who submitted testimony in favor of House 340,. An Act Relative to a Moratorium on High-Stakes Testing and PARCC. Below are their names, with links to their testimony. House Bill 340 Testimony. Adeline Bee - Attleboro. Andrew Frankenfield - Westwood. Bob Erlands...
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New Bedford Educators Association: School Committee needs to cooperate with the City Council .... By ChrisCotter
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New Bedford Educators Association. Thursday, July 9, 2015. School Committee needs to cooperate with the City Council . By Chris Cotter. Here are some of my responses to Mr. Livramento's “points of clarification”:. 1 He is correct that Dr. Durkin was hired by the School Committee. Was this just at the recommendation of the School Committee, or with a strong recommendation by the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and Mitchell Chester? He stated that the School Committee members are ele...
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New Bedford Educators Association: SEI Endorsement and RETELL Advisory No. 12
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New Bedford Educators Association. Tuesday, July 21, 2015. SEI Endorsement and RETELL Advisory No. 12. Fall 2015 Course Registration. For more information, go to www.massteacher.org/ell. Fall 2015 SEI Endorsement Course Registration. This is the final year. SEI Endorsement courses will be offered by the DESE. Course registration begins Aug. 3. The site will not go live until then. Link to the registration site: http:/ www.doe.mass.edu/retell/. Have your personal/professional calendar at hand. If you are ...
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New Bedford Educators Association: Urge the U.S. Senate to Reduce Testing
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New Bedford Educators Association. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Urge the U.S. Senate to Reduce Testing. To send a letter to Massachusetts Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey urging them to support the Tester amendment and other provisions that would reduce testing in our public schools. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Bristol County Savings Bank. Cove Surf and Turf. First Citizens Federal Credit Union. New Bedford Credit Union. Less Testing, More Learning. The Elephant's New Clothes. The New Bedfo...
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New Bedford Educators Association: A bittersweet victory on accountability
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New Bedford Educators Association. Saturday, July 18, 2015. A bittersweet victory on accountability. MTA President Barbara Madeloni issued the following statement on July 17 about the Every Child Achieves Act, which was passed by the U.S. Senate on July 16. It is a bittersweet victory to applaud the power of school accountability going back to the states, should this bill become law. The bill continues to ignore the real problems of racial and economic injustice that plague our schools and communities.
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New Bedford Educators Association: Fight Workplace Bullying!
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New Bedford Educators Association. Thursday, July 9, 2015. While there are laws to protect students from being bullied - and there should be - there are no laws to protect public employees from being bullied by their employers. That needs to be fixed. The MTA is backing. At 1 pm on Tuesday, July 21. In Room A-2. For more information, contact MTA lobbyist Julie Johnson at. We have enough of that going on in our school system. 13 July, 2015. 05 August, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The New Bedf...
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New Bedford Educators Association: Vote on Autism Endorsement regulations postponed until September
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New Bedford Educators Association. Thursday, July 9, 2015. Vote on Autism Endorsement regulations postponed until September. In 2014, the Massachusetts Legislature passed a bill making an Autism Endorsement available to special education teachers who work with autistic children. On June 23, the BESE was scheduled to vote on the regulations. MTA Vice President Janet Anderson presented public comment at the meeting, and BESE member Ed Doherty offered a motion that would have added the MTA’s propo...The MTA...