Walks on campus increase visibility
-By Alan Akins, Staff Writer
Last Wednesday, faculty, professional staff, librarians and other members of labor unions on campus participated in the first weekly Solidarity Walk sponsored by the American Federations of Teachers (AFT) Local 1904.
Solidarity Walks start at Café Diem each Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. and follow a mile-long route ending at the Alumni Green.…
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The Education Department will release a report on Friday calling for new regulations that would tie teacher-training grants to the test scores of the teachers’ students.
According to sources familiar with the report, the department wants to hold teachers’ colleges accountable for how well their graduates’ future students perform on standardized tests. Under its plan, states would be required to report test scores for students taught by graduates of their federally financed teacher-education programs.…
Read MoreH.R. 1351 is a bill which would prevent the financial collapse of the U.S. Postal Service without costing taxpayers a single cent, preserve collective bargaining rights for workers, and keep 120,000 people working during a time when our economy needs jobs.
Please take a moment to send a message to your Congressperson either thanking them, if they have signed on as a co-sponsor of H.R.…
Read MoreThe Delegate Assembly of the United University Professions, the faculty union of the State University of New York, has adopted a package of measures designed to promote the interests of non-tenure-track faculty members. The UUP, affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors, pledged to adopt a system in which adjuncts who go on and off payroll can remain members of the union.…
Read MoreOne change to New Jersey’s charter school law passed the legislature yesterday, while talk mounts that a broader rewrite of the state’s 15-year-old statute governing the semi-autonomous schools may be in the offing.
The state Senate passed a bill that would allow certain parochial and private schools to convert to charters.…
Read MoreAFTNJ helps to build power for working people. Sign up on the AFTNJ calendar for events to participate.
… Read MoreImportant New Jersey Legislative Elections are quickly approaching and AFTNJ is working with other unions in key districts. If you’ve never participated in one, Labor Walks are a fun way to get out and spend a Saturday morning.
SPRINGFIELD — Pietro Petino, remembered as one of the loudest voices for teachers’ labor rights in Newark, died at his home Friday night after a nearly 15-month battle with cancer.
The 68-year-old Springfield resident spent more than 40 years working with the Newark Teachers Union, Local 481, serving most recently as the union’s executive director.
“He was a huge part of the union, from the day that I started teaching back in 1970.…
Read MoreNewark Teachers Union President Joe Del Grosso said he is troubled by the ongoing secrecy surrounding the Facebook donation.
“We don’t know what the foundation is doing or how they intend to spend the other money,” Del Grosso said. “With that money comes a responsibility to the public to be clear about its use.”
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Gov. Chris Christie commissioned a task force, which has recommended the merging of Rutgers University and parts of UMDNJ.
Rutgers is our flagship state university with an enormous commitment to science and health, but it doesn’t have a medical school. Robert Wood Johnson is a medical school with a great reputation.
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Read MoreNBC and MSNBC will be focusing on education during this week’s Education Nation programming. President Weingarten will be a guest on a number of panels and news shows. She is currently scheduled to appear on:
SUNDAY, Sept. 25 – 9 a.m. ET – MSNBC’s UP with Chris Hayes
SUNDAY, Sept. 25 – 12 noon to 2 p.m.…
Martha Woodall and Susan Snyder
Inquirer Staff Writers
State Rep. Dwight Evans and Robert L. Archie Jr., former chairman of the Philadelphia School Reform Commission, waged a relentless Godfather-style campaign to ensure that a New Jersey nonprofit would win a contract to manage Martin Luther King High School and, when that failed, pressured the Atlanta company that won the contract to back out.…
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It sounds easy enough: Take two of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey’s schools and its cancer institute and merge them into Rutgers University.
But in reality, folding pieces of one university into another is legally complicated and potentially costly, higher education officials say.
What happens to workers’ union contracts?…
Read MoreThe union representing more than 3,500 nurses and health professionals at UMDNJ noted that the report contained “no full explanation of the financial costs or impact of the mergers.”
“Even the interim report noted that they have not yet looked at the impact on jobs, and that ‘additional study’ was required,” Ann Twomey, president of the Health Professionals and Allied Employees, said in a statement.…
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