tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post2925187092300486376..comments2024-02-06T16:00:09.709-05:00Comments on Under Assault: teaching in NYC: Is there a blacklist?UAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18260404972111353175noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-59237570873336617782024-02-06T16:00:09.709-05:002024-02-06T16:00:09.709-05:00Does the United Federation of Teachers have any ob...Does the United Federation of Teachers have any obligation to deny or affirm the establishment and maintenance of a Blacklist by the NYC DOE?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-84069924592494066952023-12-12T18:40:08.569-05:002023-12-12T18:40:08.569-05:001. Right to union representation during Discontinu...1. Right to union representation during Discontinuance.<br />2. Incumbent upon DOE to document waiver of Weingarten RIghts.<br />3. Verification of license(s) of persons who Recommend Discontinuance.<br />4. Documentation of the role of the Superintendent in Discontinuance. <br />5. Qualifications/credentials of the person(s) who determines waiver of Weingarten Rights.<br />6. Statistical review of Discontinuance by Race, and school districts in NYC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-61083012932773127662023-12-07T17:54:08.552-05:002023-12-07T17:54:08.552-05:00Compel the DOE to answer all FOIL requests of Disc...Compel the DOE to answer all FOIL requests of Discontinued and Blacklisted Teacher within 60 calendar days regarding the maintenance of their records.<br />Copies of all licenses issued, all In-service G courses taken. Do not allow them to stymie and delay maters further.<br />Compel them to document proof of Notification of Discontinued Status, proof of union representation during Discontinuance, proof of union representation during Blacklisting, and proof of Notification of placement on the Blacklist.<br />Vouchsafe that the union and the municipality do not obfuscate these et al through a conflict of interests.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-51462864052188958492023-11-28T18:19:42.035-05:002023-11-28T18:19:42.035-05:00DOE is funded by tax dollars in this State of New ...DOE is funded by tax dollars in this State of New York. As a gov't agency it must reply to FOIL requests in timely fashion.<br /><br />We may ask elected officials to assist in making FOIL requests.<br />Both the UFT and DOE will attempt to be evasive, furnish as little information as possible.<br />Question is: What information re the Blacklist is accessible to the general public regarding this Blacklist?<br />How many have challenged placement on the Blacklist as discriminatory?<br />What is the joint and affirmative burden of both the UFT and the NYC DOE<br />to address issues of discrimination in its personnel actions in general and Blacklist and Discontinuance in particular? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-14770445841292024262023-10-23T08:08:56.692-04:002023-10-23T08:08:56.692-04:00What is foil request? I’m investigating this situa...What is foil request? I’m investigating this situation now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-69717884706584218582023-10-05T16:09:14.576-04:002023-10-05T16:09:14.576-04:00By what lawful authority does the DOE communicate ...By what lawful authority does the DOE communicate information regarding the Blacklist via the Internet?<br />Date of inception of the Blacklist.<br />When the Blacklist was first established the Internet was not in common usage. Thusly, we must challenge transmitting personnel information regarding the Blacklisted on the Internet as unlawful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-87421103611017131882023-10-05T16:01:56.044-04:002023-10-05T16:01:56.044-04:00List of all those with unencumbered access to the ...List of all those with unencumbered access to the Blacklist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-22414187291634698392023-09-27T16:01:26.358-04:002023-09-27T16:01:26.358-04:00How much information regarding the Blacklist is ac...How much information regarding the Blacklist is accessible thru FOIL requests?<br />List all the Blacklisted----living and deceased.<br />List of all those Blacklisted----in excess of 25 years. <br />List of all those removed from the Blacklist.<br />List of all those who challenged placement on Blacklist by asserting discrimination.<br />Joint and affirmative burden of the NYC DOE and the UFT to delineate pursuant to the Collective Barging Agreement contractual right to lawful service of Notification of placement on Blacklist.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-5810011427508917122023-07-23T15:51:49.618-04:002023-07-23T15:51:49.618-04:00Is it incumbent upon the NYC DOE to maintain files...Is it incumbent upon the NYC DOE to maintain files of persons Blacklisted? Do such persons have lawful access to such files? Is it incumbent the NYC DOE to acknowledge FOIL requests in regards to maintenance of such files? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-91046806552664442152023-07-01T12:55:47.141-04:002023-07-01T12:55:47.141-04:00How to prove collusion/conflict of interests betwe...How to prove collusion/conflict of interests between UFT and the DOE?<br />How many DOE personnel have been Blacklisted subsequent to a hearing <br />wherein records were subsequently destroyed...or missing? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-6512459232780439062023-03-25T15:17:58.945-04:002023-03-25T15:17:58.945-04:00Is it incumbent upon the NYC DOE to respond to a ...Is it incumbent upon the NYC DOE to respond to a FOIL request compelling it to deny or affirm the establishment and maintenance of an Ineligible list?<br />Is it incumbent upon the NYC DOE to respond to a FOIL request compelling it to answer whether or not an individual is on th e Ineligible list? <br />Is it meritorious to prevail upon elected officials to compel the NYC DOE to answer this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-79532944747953737622022-09-10T15:17:18.272-04:002022-09-10T15:17:18.272-04:00Review as a conflict of Interests--- that neither ...Review as a conflict of Interests--- that neither the NYC DOE nor the UFT denies or affirms the establishment and maintenance of a Blacklist?.<br />IAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-71205577998355424152022-04-28T18:19:07.874-04:002022-04-28T18:19:07.874-04:00Is it incumbent both the NYC DOE and the UFT to de...Is it incumbent both the NYC DOE and the UFT to deny of affirm the establishment and maintenance of a Blacklist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-15216312090059763652022-04-02T16:41:40.286-04:002022-04-02T16:41:40.286-04:00Can the Chancellor's district send out a Repr...Can the Chancellor's district send out a Representative years after it closed? How is this possible? How does it have any authority?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-48375763719628954212022-03-23T17:15:39.775-04:002022-03-23T17:15:39.775-04:00Trying to get information on Saul Brodsky. What D...Trying to get information on Saul Brodsky. What District does he represent?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-4232019884219365452022-02-19T15:12:48.241-05:002022-02-19T15:12:48.241-05:00Is the NYC Dept of Personnel Investigations lawful...Is the NYC Dept of Personnel Investigations lawfully obligated to reply to request s by Blacklisted Teachers...to verify their status?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-13388775498523451172022-02-12T15:52:00.224-05:002022-02-12T15:52:00.224-05:00Have written the NYC DOE Department of Professiona...Have written the NYC DOE Department of Professional Investigations....<br />It does not respond!!!!<br /><br />Any suggestions??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-25375665320804487902017-12-17T17:45:49.629-05:002017-12-17T17:45:49.629-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00871096558782176510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-69928438576961242562015-10-03T00:36:18.451-04:002015-10-03T00:36:18.451-04:00I myself am thinking there are blacklists. I quit ...I myself am thinking there are blacklists. I quit a school district of 200,000 students in 2006. Since that time I have had 3 job offers. I am bilinguo Special Es. My longest lasting job was 1.5 years at a charter school. I have been a teacher since 1999. After 25 applications I received 2 interviews. I was not even accepted at the city with the highest crime rate of America. I have had Special Ed supervisors who never taught a day in their life and vice principals with 3 years of teaching experience. The best was one boss who had a bachelors in Special Ed and I have a Masters. At rhe moment I am 9 months behind on my mortgage and am on food stamps. This is all because a student pumched me and I made a police report. The student returned to school and I was fired.Angiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08278056150922051163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-7276442551431809232011-11-27T14:00:12.504-05:002011-11-27T14:00:12.504-05:00Though I'm no longer involved or seeing things...Though I'm no longer involved or seeing things first-hand now that I've retired, I can't say much except the situation has gotten more complicated. <br />Over time we realized that much of EdDeform was solely to break the union, little to do with moving toward quality education. (Quality Education would mean smaller class size, trusting hands-on educators with a lot of NYC experience instead of newbie admin trainees and outside consultants, providing all kinds of services and environments for struggling and unsupported learners, not cutting these; etc.) <br />I think principals are probably trained to keep several things in focus: the bigger salaries, the bigger mouths, and the bigger union involvement. If you keep those factors in mind, you can extricate your own ego from the job search process and come to terms with the fact you're going to get sidelined if you fit into one or more of these categories. <br />The union threw in the towel years ago. They tolerated if not collaborated on one-size-fits-all teaching methodologies, and now they're doing the same with teacher evaluations.UAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18260404972111353175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-15644993781896369002011-11-27T13:19:53.526-05:002011-11-27T13:19:53.526-05:00Hi,
Hoping, again, you're still checking in o...Hi,<br /><br />Hoping, again, you're still checking in on this blog. I'd really like to touch base with you. It's now November 2011, I had a job for 10 months with a non-profit, but our funding was not approved for contract renewal. So I am-once again-unemployed and experiencing-once again-some situations that leave me to believe that this 'ineligible list' is accessible to more than those in the DOE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-11546733013195827922011-06-09T22:57:33.497-04:002011-06-09T22:57:33.497-04:00Anon., I am so sorry this happened to you. I don&...Anon., I am so sorry this happened to you. I don't understand why he was pushing you out, then made it hard for you to get another job. At first I thought it might be a computer thing: they see you resigned under the 30 days, so it caused you to go on that ineligible list. But then, why would he lie and say he did give you notice? So weird.<br />PS. I leave this blog up because we're under the same contract still, and it has information pertaining to it. Best regards,UAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18260404972111353175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-82711691189486742922011-06-09T21:59:13.480-04:002011-06-09T21:59:13.480-04:00Don't know if you still read posts on this blo...Don't know if you still read posts on this blog, but it came up in a search I put in for "are NYC teachers blacklisted". After reading your post, I will share that I am teacher with 10 years experience, 2 in NYC when I decided to leave the classroom in 2007. The last principal I worked for was a real &ick. While he agreed I was a wonderful educator, and I received only Satisfactory evaluations and observations, he felt that he wanted a different type of staff and was indirectly asking people to leave. Which wasn't a problem since I wanted to leave anyway-but I was initially trying to find a transfer of some compacity. He harrassed me by phone over the summer and when I finally resigned-I did so without a full 30 days notice. Ignorance is no excuse, but I didn't know the DOE required a full 30 days notice. I resigned August 2007 and in January 2008 I receiveda letter of ineligible to be rehired. The DOE has a policy that allows principals, without evidence or due process, to place a teacher on the list of ineligibility for the city of New York. It's a life-long ban, that bans me from the boroughs. There is no formal appeal; but I bitched enough that I got one a year later only to loose when the principal falsified documents stating he informed me of the 30day notice. I can't even get a job as a custodian for a school in NYC. And there's nothing I can do about this. The union completely abandoned me saying it happens to a lot of teachers and it's just something administrators are allowed to do. What's worse is that being on this list actually also flags my fingerprints. Subsequent, non-classroom positions that required fingerprints were forced not to hire me becaus the DOE would not disclose the nature of the "red flag" on my file and employer-understandably-cannot take my word for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-17553451563839592352009-01-20T17:46:00.000-05:002009-01-20T17:46:00.000-05:00Thanks, anon. from Texas. I can't imagine working ...Thanks, anon. from Texas. I can't imagine working without a union, though I think ours is mostly selling out.<BR/><BR/>You know, I never had a problem with administrators who rise from the ranks, becoming principals or APs after 20 years in the classroom. Somebody's got to run the place.<BR/> <BR/>But this idea of non-educator administrators, people who come into the system with a corporate psyche or buy into it when they attend the Leadership Academy, this will not solve our problems. Their values are way too different from ours.Under Assaulthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222267229529062957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132951117640035190.post-24471306025539670222009-01-20T15:17:00.000-05:002009-01-20T15:17:00.000-05:00I have had a similar experience in Texas, where th...I have had a similar experience in Texas, where there is no union. Repeatedly a principal has made an offer to hire me pending paperwork in personnel, and then I hear nothing. When I contact the principal and human resources, I am given reasons that I was gullible enough to believe for the first semester of fulltime job hunting. My vice principal last year was a key figure in his high school perpetuating the Texas School-to-Prison Pipeline, and I resisted his efforts to send my credit retrieval students off to alternative school on the least excuse. Twice and they drop out of school, which improves the statistics of the school so funding isn't lost. I'm pretty sure he has found some way to blacklist me. What I can't figure out is (coming from a university department) how the heck did public schools decide to have administrators be over the teachers?! Can you imagine a doctor or lawyer working for his secretary? What's with all the paperwork. Doesn't "administration" imply taking care of some of that so the teachers can teach? A lot of education is ignored when teachers' input is ignored. Why aren't schools teacher-run, for cryin' out loud? The system is upside-down. Here they want to pay teacher incentives, but they don't pay for us to have supplies to make lessons interesting. Not even the basics. What kind of business doesn't have a supply closet? My gosh, schools do not seem to have it together at all. They measure the performance of teachers, but never ask them what the problem is. If they did, they would say the administrators are not supportive and are in fact blocking the teachers' efforts. That's why so many teachers drop out, not because of the students.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com