Advising on Their New School P 5 n Crowds arrive and register in the grand mezzanine of the Hilton New York. Old friends exchange greetings. December 2010* Volume 44, Number 4 Local 1, American Federation of School Administrators, AFL-CIO CSANEWS COUNCIL OF SCHOOL SUPERVISORS AND ADMINISTRATORS Special 2010 ConferenceReport n President Logan’s rousing speech received several standing ovations. Logan’s Address P 2-3 Complete Coverage P9-15 n Guests viewed a cornucopia of education materials in the busy exhibit hall. Retirees at the Conference, p 17-18 n At lunch, 1, 355 members and guest contribute to a gala affair. 2 CSA NEWS December 2010 December 2010 CSA NEWS 3 December 2010 LOGAN’S ADDRESS AT THE CONFERENCE COMING EVENTS Events are at CSA’s We Must to Brooklyn Headquarters, Fight ( 16 Court Street, unless ) otherwise noted. Council of School DEC. 14, 5 PM: Supervisors & Administrators Keep What We Have Association of Black American Federation of School Administrators, AFL-CIO, Local 1 Educators of New 16 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11241-1003 York Phone: (718) 852-3000 Maintaining the Labor Movement’s Legacy. ByErnestA.Logan Fax: (718) 403-0278 RACHEL ELKIND DEC. 14, 5 PM: CSA www.csa-nyc.org that we’ve spent, we should do a better job of how n CSA’s officers, Executive Board members and District Chairs attended a reception for ‘dais’ guests at the CSA Conference. After the reception, the Latino Caucus we look at our school system. guests including state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and AFSA President Diann Woodard proceeded into the Grand Ballroom. President To keep imagination alive, we must also stop DEC. 15, 5 PM: CSA Ernest A. Logan Executive Board Executive Vice President allowing the arts to get the axe every time we face Peter J. McNally a budget cut. Do you remember when an arts and sector employees, government workers – including those of us us until we come crawling to the table, taking peanuts that they DEC. 16, 10 AM: CSA First Vice President science education was what everyone wanted – who educate children – to sacrifice more and be grateful to have offer. [Editor’s Note: The 1982 Triborough Amendment prohibits a Retiree Chapter Randi Herman, Ed.D what everyone dreamed of? The arts didn’t take a a paycheck, any kind of paycheck. public employer from altering an expired labor agreement until a new Secretary back seat. We know that artistic imagination is as Some of the most imaginative, creative, innovative contract is reached.] Executive Board Mark Cannizzaro important to society as scientific imagination. I Americans founded the labor movement. They were not inter- I am a firm supporter of collective bargaining. It requires DEC. 20, 5 PM: Irish Treasurer know, as a school leader, that we’ve all felt we had ested in a “race to the bottom.”Neither are we. imagination, creativity and innovation. I support constructive Laverne Burrowes American to cut a music program or a poetry program We’re interested in fighting for the legacy of those brilliant changes and flexibility to work rules and conditions. I believe in Vice Presidents Committee of the Jermaine J. Garden, because there just wasn’t enough money to go men and women who created a movement in America more accountability. But I will fight to the end if only we, America’s Robert Kazanowitz, around. Let’s face it: These programs are the ones than a century ago. We want to live up to the vision of those organized workers, are asked to lower our expectations for a DOE Richard Oppenheimer, Henry Rubio, Nancy Russo, that make a lot of your students want to come to who brought us the 40-hour work week, a safe working environ- decent life while the rich get even richer and the gulf between JAN. 4, 4 PM: CSA Irwin Shanes, Retiree Chapter school. They’re important even if the subjects ment, a two-day weekend and an end to child labor. Before the rich and the poor grows so wide that the middle class disap- Pre-Retirement “aren’t on the test.” unions pushed for pensions for workers, only the wealthy could pears altogether. Executive Director Operations Workshop Anita Gomez-Palacio • • • retire. Today, the wealthy are still at a huge advantage over the When we fight for a decent life for our unionized educators General Counsel rest of us. But, we don’t hear enough of an outcry when corpo- we are fighting for the children in our public schools. Without JAN. 5, 4:30 PM: CSA Bruce K. Bryant If you paid attention today to what you heard rate giants make their multi-million dollar salaries, get their decent salaries, benefits and protections, the best and the bright- District Chairs Counsel about imagination and creativity you know you multi-million dollar bonuses, and win their golden parachutes. est will not be willing to lead and teach in our schools. Without David Grandwetter have to make that part of what you do every sin- a strong union, the city can impose rules and regulations on our Charity Guerra JAN. 6, 5 PM: gle day. • • • school leaders that are budget-oriented, not child-oriented. Comptroller NYCESPA Phil Fodera Lately, the buzz about education seems to cen- et us not allow corporate America to scapegoat us. Let us Now we face another fight. The city thinks it can save CSA President Ernest Logan made his annual address to the union’s Special Assistant to President ter around one of my super heroes, Superman. I was a little sur- not allow them to lower salaries, reduce hard-earned money by sending students with special needs to local schools. JAN. 10, 5 PM: Gary Goldstein membership at the 46th Educational Leadership Conference on Nov. prised to learn that Geoffrey Canada, who I know, thought benefits and lower expectations for our children’s educa- We will fight to make sure that our school leaders have all the Association of 13. His remarks, below, have been edited for publication. In his opening Executive Director Field Services Superman was coming to the hood. For years as a child, I read tion and future employment. We must remain vigilant training, all the resources and all the tools they need to meet Assistant Principals Audrey Fuentes statement, he thanked CSA Executive Vice President Peter McNally and about Superman’s exploits and I watched him on TV, and none Land respond with all our might when the giants of industry and the needs of those children. This shouldn’t be about the city’s Field Directors CSA First Vice President Randi Herman for their support and acknowl- of those neighborhoods that he flew into looked like mine. I finance stir up the public’s rage against us and come to snatch need to save a few bucks by consolidating special education pro- JAN. 10, 5 PM: Juanita Bass, Stephen Bennett, edged lawmakers and special guests on the dais. (Watch Mr. Logan’s Phyliss Bullion, Bernard Lopez, came into this profession understanding and believing that I what we have earned. grams. This should be about our children. And without strong Education William Meehan, Kathleen Murphy, speech at www.youtube.com/user/FollowCSA.) was the superhero – I could make a difference in a child’s life. I Every one of us in this room should be especially concerned education unions, the city would be far less accountable. Administrator’s Daisy O’Gorman, Steven M. Rosen, Margaret Williams didn’t come looking for someone to do the job that I could do, about the onslaught of anti-unionism. CSA doesn’t have a con- These are the principles that CSA has fought for over the past Association ou folks have made me look real, real good. So and can do. Neither did you – You ARE the super heroes! Don’t tract yet. UFT doesn’t have a contract yet. Our city-funded Day nearly 50 years and that’s what CSA will continue to fight for in Assistant Field Directors Mary Aloisio, Mildred Boyce, give yourselves a hand. It’s what you do day in let anybody tell you different. Care Directors and Assistant Directors haven’t had a contract for the upcoming contract negotiations. We want to raise your Please check with the Mark Brodsky, Joseph Costa, and day out, no matter what people throw at you; But a lot of folks who really don’t know very much about more than four years. We should be outraged. expectations for a good life so that you can raise the expecta- event organizer to confirm Charles Dluzniewski, Martin Fiasconaro, Joanne Frank, Aura Gangemi, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes education, think this documentary, Waiting for Superman, is What they would like to do is change the Triborough tions for your students. We want our public school children to times and dates Pat Glassman, Ellie Greenberg, schools work. Amendment. Why? Because they’ll never have to negotiate with have great lives. Ray Gregory, James Harrigan, Now, let me talk about my friend, Joel Klein. This past Robert Jeanette, Kate Leonard, Y Christine Martin, Monica McDonald, week, he surprised us with the news of his resignation just as I will fight to the end if union Lena Medley, Thelma Peeples, we were finally getting used to each other. He said something Mercedes Qualls, Cynthia Sanders, Shelli Sklar from the heart when he spoke earlier today. He said, “I made members are asked to lower Teachers’ Grievance Director him a better Chancellor.” But he stopped there. If he had only their expectations while the rich State, City Deal for Black Appointment Retirement System Robert J.