MORE Weekly Update #70: Are you coming out for Win Back Wednesday?

You should be getting the idea of why you should drag your ass over the 52 Broadway this Weds (Oct 9) for the 4PM "Win Back Wednesday" rally. Certainly if you read my earlier piece on what is going on in Newark where the pressure of an insurgent social justice oriented caucus has led to the Unity style leader, who only won re-election by 9 votes, to take a position against RTTT. And you should sign up to distribute the MORE newsletter in your mail boxes. We ran out of our first run and 5000 more are being printed. My goal this year: To have 25,000 MORE Stuff in Your Mailbox going out to - well - UFT member mail boxes.

And it you are a chapter leader or delegate there is no excuse not to be in the dynamic MORE Chapter Leader (discussion for chapter activists) CL/Del listserve where you can get expert help on contract items and other issues in your school.


Time to stop the test-based evaluation system!

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Weekly Update #70

October 7, 2013

Join MORE Today Make Sure You Are On Our Listserves! Click below to join:  News (announcements/articles) Discussion (debate/back-and-forth) Chapter Leader (discussion for chapter activists) Day of Action Against Test-Based Evaluations Wednesday, October 9th Outside DA @ UFT HQ 52 B'way - 4pm-6pm City-wide at schools FALL GENERAL MEETINGS 3rd Saturday - Noon to 3:00pm October 19 224 West 29th St 14th fl. (btwn 7th and 8th ave) November 16th Location TBA COMMITTEES: Contract Committee contract@morecaucusnyc.org Wed. Oct 9th at 6:15pm Au Bon Pain - 60 Broad St. Meeting Minutes here Steering Committee steering@morecaucusnyc.org TODAY Mon. Oct. 7th at 8pm Phone Conference - reply for details Mon. Oct. 21th at 5PM CUNY Grad Center, Rm. 5409 Meeting minutes here Newsletter Committee news@morecaucusnyc.org Membership Committee membership@morecaucusnyc.org Wed. Oct 9th at 6:15pm Au Bon Pain - 60 Broad St. Chapter Organizing Committee chapters@morecaucusnyc.org Media Committee media@morecaucusnyc.org High Stake Testing Committee testing@morecaucusnyc.org Monday, Oct. 14th, 2:00-4:00pm. CUNY Grad Center, Rm 5414 STAYING IN TOUCH:  Comments? Suggestions? Email update@morecacusnyc.org with items for future updates Facebook Twitter Email

OCTOBER 9th Day of Action! Check out the toolkit and stickers (PDF, doc) Mobilize your coworkers, parents and community to take a stand against test-based teacher evals.  Wear RED and stickers to work Distribute this flyer to coworkers Join us at the UFT Delegate Assembly at 4:00-6:00pm (52 Broadway, 4/5 to Wall St. A/C to Fulton) Make copies of the flyer to distribute there (will be posted tomorrow on MORE website) On October 9th at 4:00 p.m., activists from all over the city will gather at UFT headquarters to protest the emphasis on high stakes testing that is harming our children, educators, and public schools. Read more at MOREcaucusNYC.org... RSVP on Facebook here High Stakes Disaster Around New York MORE's Jia Lee and CTS' Fred Smith speak out at HST Forum in District 15. Lisa North points out that the UFT said not to evaluate based on test scores Almost 40% of Syracuse Teachers need improvement plan under new eval system. Common core textbooks still not delivered to New York City schools 2500 teachers, parents and administrators protest high-stakes testing in Buffalo Educator under attack?  Join MORE's "Don't Tread on Educators" support group by emailing dtoe-subscribe@googlegroups.com MORE's next general meeting is on Saturday, October 19th [at 224 West 29th St 14th fl., btwn 7th and 8th ave]. Discussions will include the our campaign against the high-stakes test based evaluation system and MORE's strategy and tactics in the UFT Delegate Assembly. MORE Newsletter Sign up to help distribute MORE's newsletter, "MORE Stuff in Your Mailbox," to your colleagues. Reply to this email if you can pick up copies or would like to help distribute it, or pick up copies at our general meeting. And read the newsletter online: morecaucusnyc.org/newsletter