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Speech from Fordham Rally
On March 13, 2009, 400 teachers from throughout the Bronx rallied in front of the Theodore Roosevelt building on Fordham Road to protest Iris Blige, abusive principal of the Fordham HS of the Arts, and...
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Former Bronx HS UFT Rep challenges school closings
[Lynne Winderbaum, retired ESL teacher from JFK, longtime Chapter Leader, and through most of the Bloomberg years, our Bronx UFT HS District Representative, responds to the announced school closings....
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JFK Case Study: What happens to NYC Dept of Education investigations?
Lynne Winderbaum was JFK High School UFT Chapter Leader 1994 – 2003, Bronx High School District Representative 2003 – 2009, and has served on the UFT Executive Board since 2006. She taught at JFK from...
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“A thick, dank, fetid cloud…”
Yesterday, September 16, 2010, almost 100 teachers from throughout the Bronx rallied in front of the Theodore Roosevelt building on Fordham Road to protest a sexually-harassing principal and his...
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Cathie Black: How can this be what we need? Part I – No Gaps
[Lynne Winderbaum, retired ESL teacher from JFK, longtime Chapter Leader, and through most of the Bloomberg years, our Bronx UFT HS District Representative, responds to the announcement that Joel Klein...
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Cathie Black: How can this be what we need? Part 2 – Data vs Kids
[Lynne Winderbaum, retired ESL teacher from JFK, longtime Chapter Leader, and through most of the Bloomberg years, our Bronx UFT HS District Representative, responds to the announcement that Joel Klein...
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Cathie Black: How can this be what we need? Part 3 – excluding parents and...
[Lynne Winderbaum, retired ESL teacher from JFK, longtime Chapter Leader, and through most of the Bloomberg years, our Bronx UFT HS District Representative, responds to the announcement that Joel Klein...
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Bloomberg is Understanding
BLOOMBERG iS UNDERSTANDING (by Lynne Winderbaum, retired teacher) No one should say that our mayor is not understanding of how unique challenges can affect the statistical measurement of one’s job...
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Could I have been a great teacher without a union? No, never.
by Lynne Winderbaum So you ask me, “Why did you need a union? You had a good reputation as a teacher, good reports from your supervisors, loved your job, and thanks to social networking, have students...
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Raqnel James – Not Guilty!
Raqnel James won a just verdict, but when will real justice come? Three years ago Fordham HS for the Arts principal Iris Blige had Raqnel arrested, paraded of out school in handcuffs, for threatening...
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What’s Wrong With Walcott?
by Lynne Winderbaum, retired ESL teacher, JFK HS, and former Bronx High School UFT District Rep “I’m not going to remove him, but he knows he cannot have any similar type of comments. He is on a very...
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Tweed Finds New Way to Harm Teachers: Flag them for Principals
by Lynne Winderbaum, retired ESL teacher, JFK HS, and former Bronx High School UFT District Rep Principal’s Weekly May 1, 2012 New Notification of Employee Disciplinary Flags All schools In accordance...
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Why the Courage of Dr. Virginia Barden Matters
by Lynne Winderbaum March 19 marked 4 years since 400 of us rallied against the abusive behavior of Iris Blige the “leader” who never taught a class herself and holds no teaching certification....
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The Fixation With Standardized Test Scores
Lynne Winderbaum takes down the new NYC Teacher Evaluation System and standardized test scores I wish Governor Cuomo [link] and Mayor Bloomberg [link] were not on record as wanting to fire teachers. I...
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The perils of the ATR
by Lynne Winderbaum, retired ESL teacher, JFK HS, and former Bronx High School UFT District Rep For the greater part of the 44 years that I have been a member of the UFT teachers truly believed that an...
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Who closed the Bronx’s high schools? by Lynne Winderbaum
by Lynne Winderbaum, retired ESL teacher, JFK HS, and former Bronx High School UFT District Rep I wrote an intro piece on the destruction of the large high schools in the Bronx last week – Lynne, a...
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