Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Solving the budget and learning deficit, together

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At the November SPFT membership meeting, the members present determined that we should go through a process of gathering input from members ...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Sorrow from Central High School

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The work that fills the days of all of us is put into perspective by the tragic death of a child, one of our students. Children are the reas...
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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Devastating Race to the Top news

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Minnesota is not a finalist for the Phase 1 Race to the Top grant funds from the Federal Department of Education. The St. Paul Federation of...
Friday, January 22, 2010

To everything, a season

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The Saint Paul Federation of Teachers knew that we were going to have difficult contract negotiations when we formed our team last year. Sta...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Tentative Agreement for Teachers

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The Values guiding our negotiating work: • The most important work in education occurs between educator and student • Effective decision-mak...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

A process well-traveled

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Tonight the St. Paul Public Schools Board of Education will announce the results of their search for a new superintendent. This will be the ...
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Friday, November 13, 2009

Partners in education? Wait & See

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One of the two most prominent findings this fall, from the superintendent search firm Hazard, Young & Associates, was the identification...
Monday, November 2, 2009

Vote for Vallay Moua Varro and Jean O'Connell!

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The Saint Paul Federation of Teachers is looking forward to the future of St. Paul Public Schools, which is why we chose to endorse two cand...
Thursday, September 10, 2009

Back-to-school business

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Today as I was visiting two buildings, one elementary and one middle school, it struck me how much teachers build on the work of each other ...
Friday, September 4, 2009

All in a day's work

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Questioning the motivation of reaching out to students. Reviled for wanting to spend time with them at all when there’s more Important work ...