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The Truth About ATRs That THe Media Deliberately Fails To Publish.
Its starting again, the one-sided media onslaught of the ATR pool by again bringing up the so called viable option of an ATR time limit. While, in the beginning of this latest round of media ATR...
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As The Polar Vortex Finally Leaves Will A New Spring Finally Dawn On The DOE?
The end of a brutal and snowy winter is finally in sight and by week's end spring will appear and stay with us for the rest of the school year as the "polar vortex" finally retreats back to the Arctic,...
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Will Mayor De Blasio Practice What He Preaches On Retaining Good Teachers In...
Mayor Bill de Blasio was interviewed by WNYC-FM about the New York City public schools and said that he will make it a "personal crusade" to keep and retain good teachers. Interestingly, at the same...
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Is The DOE Giving Schools More Money To Hire "F" Status Administratrors To...
I was at a school this week where the Principal informed the staff that the requirements under the Teacher Evaluation System has overwhelmed the administration of the school. The Principal stated that...
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Crain's Joins The Media Bashing Of ATRs With A Highly Inaccurate Editorial.
Crain's NY Business has joined the newspaper bashing of ATRs by writing an editorial on why the ATRs should be terminated. The editorial titled"Rubber room must hit the road". Even from the title one...
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Breaking News!
The UFT and DOE have agreed on a nine year contract that includes "retroactive raises"and "service credits" that will allow veteran teachers to retire. As part of the contract the ATRs will be going...
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The Ideologues At The DOE Finds Another Way To Waste Money At The Expense Of...
A highly-regarded large comprehensive school located in Northeast Queens has a serious financial issueand ended up owing the DOE $240,000 for the 2013-14 school year. Despite excessing 20 teachers...
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The ATR Advisory Committee Discusses The Issues But Many Of Them Remain...
Last week the ATR advisory committee met with the UFT's Michael Sill on our first formal meeting to discuss the issues dealing with the ATR pool. Mr. Sill started the meeting by handing out the agenda...
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Changes The Union Must Push The DOE To Do For The Next Contract.
Presently, the union and the City are negotiating a new contract and there is optimism that a final contract will be hammered out by June. What should the contract include beside the money owed to the...
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Why Aren't Administrators Being Brought Up On Corporal Punishment Charges For...
Thousands of parents rightly refused to have their children sit for the poorly-devised and high-stakes NYS testing using a "Common Core" curriculum that was not readily available to the schools. While...
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Why Teacher Due Process Rights Are Important.
There's little question that there has been a coordinated attack on teacher "due process rights" State after State and school districts throughout the nation have various proposals and sometimes new...
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The Reason Why ATRs Should Be Put Back Into The Classroom. It Helps Student...
The Wall Street Journal's education reporter, Leslie Brody wants to talk to ATRs about their situation and what should be done to the ATR pool. She contacted Norm Scott and told him that the she wants...
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The Bloomberg Education Legacy Is One Of Failure.
With the advent of a new administration who has struggled to change the educational landscape, its time to look back at ex-Mayor Michael Bloomberg's education legacy and see what has actually...
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Our Retirement System Is As Good As It Gets.
One of the major perks that we educators have is the retirement system that goes a long way to provide us with lifetime security. If I look at the three stools of retirement, our retirement system...
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Clueless Campbell Brown Lacks Common Sense.
In the New York Post today the clueless Campbell Brown wrote an article called A 'common sense' NYC teachers contract. In the article she recommended what changes should be made in the next teachers...
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The City Is Hiding A Surplus Of Over $6 Billion According To Financial Guru...
Under the Bloomberg years the City vastly understated revenues and overstated debt and always projected a deficit. Of course as the budget came due, not only did the deficit disappear but a modest...
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Finally, At Least One Journalist Got It Right About Why Principals Won't Hire...
I was pleasantly surprised when I read Charkbeat and saw the article Geoff Decker wrote about the contract negotiations that also included the ATR issue. While he didn't specifically identify the...
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How The DOE Budgeting Process Forces Principals To Cut Corners At The Expense...
Under the Bloomberg Administration there were many changes to the decades old Board of Education. Most of them bad. First it became the Department of Education, then the Superintendent staff was...
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Chancellor Carmen Farina's First Four Months Have Been Disappointing.
The first four months of Carmen Farina's tenure as Chancellor of the New York City Schools has been very disappointing. While she has made a few changes at the top (too few), she has failed to"clean...
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Is Our Union Agreeing To An Inferior Contract?
In yesterday's New York Daily News the paper published an articlethat claimed that the City and UFT are closing in on a seven year contract that apparently will include the two 4% raises and the...
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