When an educator in NYC is reassigned from their position, pending very, very slow investigations, they go to the Rubber Room Hub first. That hub is room 1201 of 49-51 Chambers Street, NY, NY. There you first meet the receptionist, Dr. CY, who has you sign in and then gives… Continue reading
UPDATE: City of NY Visits the post below: Today’s DNAInfo.com article titled Eva Moskowitz’s Success Academy Got Preferential DOE Treatment, Emails Show, discusses how DOE leaders bent over backwards to accommodate schools for Success Academy Charters. One of those that laid down the red carpet was Deputy Chancellor of Operations… Continue reading
Depending how long you have been following, you may have read that I actually received Hate Mail (email) from someone. Besides the name calling they also left comments (the only negative comments ever left on my blog) and spoke about my children. Well, it seems they struck again. You may… Continue reading
Education Commissioner King is coming to town. http://usny.nysed.gov/community-forum-schedule.html December 10 Brooklyn Medgar Evers College 6:30-8:30 PM December 10 Bronx Evander Childs Campus Time: 6:00-8:00 PM December 11 Manhattan Spruce Street School 5:00-7:00 PM ————————– This photo was taken after an Educators for Excellence forum in Manhattan last April. I remember… Continue reading
In case you missed them: Part 1:The Special Commissioner of Investigations Hand is in the Pocket of the Chancellor Part 2:A Tale of Two Videos Part 3:Principal, Playboy and NY Post…Oh My! Part 4:$ubpoena with a Capital $ I received a call from a retired teacher who stated he was… Continue reading
We seemed to have reached the halfway point of my termination hearing or 3020-a. Today is 674 days since they took aim to fire me. I’m still here. I hope this encourages others to speak up and spreads hope. Fear not. After twelve days, spanning three months, calling in over… Continue reading
What happens when a parent in the community is also a teacher in a school What happens when they raise concerns and the decision is made to “Get them out!“, but that parent/educator was previously praised and has no negative items in their personnel file The answer is…you make things… Continue reading
I created the below video when I usually created my student tutorials…after school. I wonder how I had time to create all these videos, when I was so busy running a “Real Estate” business after school. I was removed from school with no notice, so I lost A LOT of… Continue reading
A subpoena duces tecum (or subpoena for production of evidence) is a court summons ordering the recipient to appear before the court and produce documents or other tangible evidence for use at a hearing or trial. This is part four of an ongoing series I started on my own… Continue reading
Back in early 2013, I was approached by the large and reputable law firm of Morrison & Foerster. They were creating a workplace bullying video and heard about my story through one of their clients. We met twice to discuss and I eventually participated in an interview. The team did… Continue reading
This is Part 3 of EducatorFightsBack.org’s series on the Office of the Special Commissioner of Investigation. In case you missed them: Part 1:The Special Commissioner of Investigations Hand is in the Pocket of the Chancellor Part 2:A Tale of Two Videos Readers, I wish I was making this up.… Continue reading
BREAKING NEWS- Supreme Court Judge Confirms Portelos Arbitration Win A great win for the staff and students of Berta Dreyfus Intermediate School 49 AND All UFT Chapter Leaders! Thanks to NYSUT and UFT. As you may know, I am the duly elected UFT Chapter Leader for IS 49. I was… Continue reading
On Thursday November 14, 2013, we held our first open forum “Don’t Tread on Educators“. I and others believe it was successful and a great start. As I was pulling out of the parking lot, one educator rolled down their window and said “Thank you. I feel better and going… Continue reading
Today is my 7th day of my Termination Hearing (3020-a). I got out of the subway and ran into a man holding a large sign outside of Tweed (NYC DOE Headquarters). His name is Bill Gunlocke and I spoke to him before and had another conversation today. He tells me… Continue reading
Here is a test. Open Google.com and search my principal’s Senior Field Counsel network attorney –Marisol Vaqzquez esq She is my principal’s attorney and has been advising her from day one. Great job Marisol! What comes upProtectPortelos.org Google Search –David Brodsky esq He is the Director of Labor Relations and… Continue reading
DTOE From Coast to Coast Against the Ones Students Need the Most You like the rhyme From what I remember, the first time I realized this Accuse and Remove method used on educators was bigger than our local NYC school district was when I was approached by Karen Horwitz of… Continue reading
What Does @deBlasioNYC Mean for @NYCSchools I do not have an answer to that question. All my research, that my educator exile has afforded me, has not given me anything concrete as to what’s to come. I know what I and most parents and educators of NYC want it to… Continue reading
On the 649th day since I first reported alleged financial misconduct at IS 49, I have just been informed that the case is now closed and under review. See below response from Director of OSI. This is in response to asking who replaced the investigator that had the case: ________… Continue reading
Ode to My Facebook Friends This post has been in the works for over almost 700 days. That’s how long this battle has been going on. Some of you were there from the beginning. Some of you jumped in later on. In either case you have been a tremendous source… Continue reading
It’s early Saturday morning here at the Portelos house. That means we usually have my one year old waking up and making some noise between the hours of 5:30 am and 6:30 am. This causes a chain reaction and before we know it it’s 7 am, everyone is up and… Continue reading
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