Check out the links below for more education and union related issues. Please forward when appropriate to people you know in your life outside of the field of education, in an effort to help educate the greater society.
This site provides links for contacting legislators about the dangers of high stakes testing:
http://educationvotes.nea.org/2013/02/12/how-you-can-help-build-the-movement-to-end-testing-mania/
This is a "must-read and "must-share"! Click the link below to read a fabulous article by Diane Ravitch on the problems with current educational "reform" and the trouble with current "reforms" to evaluate teachers based on student scores:
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/feb/01/holding-education-hostage/
And here is some useful information about the tax cap and NYSUT's efforts to push back against it:
http://blog.timesunion.com/capitol/archives/179030/nysut-will-file-legal-challenge-to-tax-cap-today/