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Berkeley High Teacher Brian Crowell On (B-PAR) Program & The Attack On Public Education

by Labor Video Project
Brian Crowell, a Berkeley High school teacher and Berkeley Federation of Teachers shop steward discusses the Berkeley Peer Assistance and Review (B-PAR) program and how it was used to target senior teachers and involved the Cathy Cambell the president of the BFT.
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Berkeley High Teacher Brian Crowell On (B-PAR) Program & The Attack On Public Education
Brian Crowell who is a teacher at California Berkeley High and a shop steward
with the Berkeley Federation of Teacher BFT talks about why he became a
teacher and how public education is now under attack.
Crowell discovered that a program Berkeley Peer Assistance and Review (B-PAR)
program was being used to target senior teachers and his BFT union president
Cathy Cambell who was being paid to be part of this anti-labor and discriminatory apparatus.
His struggle to learn about this operation led to his being targeted by the
administration and the union officials. He also discusses the growing national
movement of public school teachers seeking to defend the profession and the
future of public education and the role of the Vergara decision. This interview
was done in the studio of KPFA Pacifica Radio on August 12, 2014.
For more information on his work go to:
http://www.berkeleyschoolslaborcaucus.org
Labor Video Project http://www.laborvideo.org
§Brian Crowell, Berkeley High Teacher and BFT Steward
by Labor Video Project
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Brian Crowell, a Berkeley High teacher and BFT shop steward discovered that a Berkeley Peer Assistance and Review (B-PAR) program was being used to target senior teachers.
§BFT President Cathy Cambell
by Labor Video Project
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Berkeley Federation of Teachers president Cathy Cambell was getting paid thousands of dollars to discipline Berkeley public school teachers despite a conflict of interest as BFT union president.
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