To the extent possible the UFT is a membership-driven organization, of course, with 190,000 members, a complex task. Only 25% of members voted in previous elections, the same percentage as the public in elections despite early voting and no excuse-absentee balloting. Unions play a major role in elections, actually in the primary election, the cityContinue reading “What are the UFT Election Endorsement Procedures? And, Why They Matter”
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Would “Mayor” Cuomo Protect New York City, Our Schools and Teachers from Trump?
A few days before Christmas in 1991, two months before the “first in the nation” New Hampshire presidential primary Mario Cuomo stepped up to microphone in Albany, the plane to New Hampshire was revving its engines, and announced he would not be a candidate for the presidency. The speciation over his decision has been parsedContinue reading “Would “Mayor” Cuomo Protect New York City, Our Schools and Teachers from Trump?”
Public Schools, Unions and Teachers: Facing A Yawning Abyss
Monday was the first day for collecting signatures to get on the June 24th Democratic Primary Ballot for the City Council and I’m helping a friend. You have to be a registered democrat and live in the district to sign a nominating petition. Recent politics in NYC has turned off voters, the June 24th turnoutContinue reading “Public Schools, Unions and Teachers: Facing A Yawning Abyss”
“We must all hang together or most assuredly we’ll hang separately,”
“We must all hang together or most assuredly we’ll hang separately,” Benjamin Franklin Less than a month into the Trump-Elon regency and the attack on public education and labor unions is just beginning. Utah is the third state to bar public employees from collective bargaining, and we expect a Trump attempt. perhaps through a presidentialContinue reading ““We must all hang together or most assuredly we’ll hang separately,””
The Impending Dismantling of the Department of Education, Public Education, Teacher Unions and perhaps our Democracy
Trump and his minions are preparing to dismantle the Department of Education and move on to dismantling public education and teacher unions, and perhaps our democracy. The Department of Education is the smallest and most recent cabinet level department. As part of LBJ’s Great Society the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) became law andContinue reading “The Impending Dismantling of the Department of Education, Public Education, Teacher Unions and perhaps our Democracy”
An Autopsy: Did Trump Win or Did Harris Lose?
I must live in a bubble, a Harris bubble. I’m surrounded by smart, politically engaged women; this was the election of a lifetime. I was certain, a tsunami of women voters would determine the outcome. We would see an enormous turnout. Pollsters were predicting a close, a very close election, days, maybe weeks before a winnerContinue reading “An Autopsy: Did Trump Win or Did Harris Lose?”
Kamala Wins as an Unexpected Tsunami of Women Voters Swamp Trump (my taro cards are never wrong)
Nate Silver writes The Tilt in the NYT, parsing polling, Nate is not a pollster, he’s a journalist (and a professional poker player) writing about polls. Polls vary from pollster to pollster, a week away from election day The Tilt, sort of, without confidence, predicts a Trump victory, In an election where the seven battleground states are all pollingContinue reading “Kamala Wins as an Unexpected Tsunami of Women Voters Swamp Trump (my taro cards are never wrong)”
Will “Unexpected Voters” Determine the Outcome of the Presidential Election?
The self described newspaper of record, the N.Y. Times displays graphs, red lines and blue lines and comments on polls almost every day. What is a poll? A poll is a prediction of a particular event at a specific time. Newspapers, media in general, rarely discusses the methodologies that vary from pollster to pollster norContinue reading “Will “Unexpected Voters” Determine the Outcome of the Presidential Election?”
