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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

State of Our Union/State of Our Schools October 24th Meeting


Full Schedule for State of Our Union / State of Our Schools

by morecaucusnyc
It's not too late to REGISTER @ tinyurl.com/MORE-SOU!
Take a look at the completed final schedule for the conference below.
Distribute the single sided or double sided flyers to your coworkers and forward the updated conference announcement below.
There is no substitute for one-to-one conversations encouraging people to register

State of our Union

State of our Schools

How can the UFT become a force for change in our schools?

Saturday, Oct. 24

10 am - 6pm

at PS 58 The Carroll School

330 Smith St, Brooklyn - F/G to Carroll St. - Everyone Welcome - Suggested Donation $10
Childcare available (email MORE@morecaucusnyc.org TODAY to reserve a spot)
SOU Conference Schedule

Featured Speakers:

Liza Campbell, Seattle teacher with an participant's report on recent strike
Jia Lee, Chapter Leader of the Earth School, high stakes testing conscientious objector
Lauren Cohen, Chapter Leader at PS321K
Leonie Haimson, Class Size Matters
Ismael Jimenez, WE Caucus, Philadelphia Teachers Union
Joe Burns, Author of Strike Back: Using the Militant Tactics of Labor's Past to Reignite Public Sector Unionism Today
Alan Singer, Hofstra University, Social Studies Educator
Charmaine Dixon, Parent, Change the Stakes
Benita Rivera, The Many
Akinlabi McCall, Coalition for Public Education

Endorsing Organizations:

NYCORE, Change the Stakes, NYCOPTOUT, The Teacher Diversity Committee of New York, NYS Stronger Together Caucus, Bad Ass Teachers Association, Coalition for Public Education.

Our schools are under assault by corporate reform efforts, standardized testing, and a governor who is eager to fire teachers and close schools. As working and learning conditions deteriorate, our union leadership has neither put up an effective resistance nor been a force for change for better schools.
The Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) invites all UFT members, parents, students, and friends to help develop a strategy to create a more democratic and more proactive UFT that can be a force for change in education in New York City.
Let’s use this year's upcoming union elections to transform the UFT by bringing together our voices, finding common ground, and increasing our participation from the chapter level up.
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Unlike the UFT leadership, MORE is asking your input for shaping our union's program! The workshops at this conference will help define the language of our election platform.

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