Daniel interviews Norm Scott, retired teacher, blogger, filmmaker, and union activist. Norm spent most of his 35 years in the NYC Board of Education as a UFT member teaching in an elementary in Brooklyn. In the 70s he was a member of an opposition caucus to Unity. In 1997 be began an independent publication, Education Notes, a newsletter for NYC teachers which he turned into a blog, ednotesonline, in 2006. He is a founding member of UFT Caucuses Independent Community of Educators (ICE) and MORE, in addition to the Grassroots Education Movement (GEM). He was one of the producers of The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, perhaps the best expose of the Bloomberg/Klein years.
Norm Scott's Ed Notes Online
https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/p/about-education-notes.html
The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman
https://theinconvenienttruthbehindwaitingforsuperman.com/