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The DOE Tries To Lowball The ATR Pool Number And Costs As The ATR Buyout,...
The Independent Budget Office (IBO) crunched the numbers dealing with the ATR pool and found that the DOE spend $151.6 million dollars on the ATR pool as of October 2016. This is over 50% more than...
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Smaller Class Sizes Improve Student Academics, Except When They Get New...
A ground breaking study on the effects of class size on student academics in the New York City classroom have shown that smaller class sizes result in improved student academic learning. However,...
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The DOE's Slogan Of Children First Rings Hollow.
The DOE will claim that everything they do is geared on putting the students first and when bloggers like me point out the hypocrisy of their "children first" claims, the DOE will simply ignore the...
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My Response To The False Accusations Of Parent Nicole Thomas About ATRs.
I read the opinion piece of parent Nicole Thomas and realized it was simply an ATR bashing piece that consisted of lies, half truths, and was right out of the StudentFirst playbook. Her article is...
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Union Proud But Not Proud Of Our Union.
I consider myself a proud union member and greatly appreciate what an effective union represents to their members. At one time, under the effective Albert Shanker, teachers were able to negotiate...
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On Retirement Our Last Year's Summer Pay Is Apparently Excluded.
When a New York City educator retires, usually at the end of the school year, the TRS calculates the Final Average Salary (FAS) of the last three school years. However, the FAS does not include any...
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Tweed Continues To Award Questionable Contracts.
The Daily News reported today that, very quietly, the DOE is set to award a $669,375 contract to an ex DOE administrator for a program that he developed as an employee for the City. In fact, the Ex DOE...
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If Chalkbeat Spoke To An ATR, Their Articles Don't Reflect It.
Over the last two weeks there has been a media frenzy about the City considering hiring ATRs to fill vacancies after October 15th. The articles range from calling ATRs "unwanted" to "bad" teachers....
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The DOE Wants Another Bite Of The Apple To Terminate Teachers.
Before 2009, the DOE had a policy that when a teacher won their 3020-a hearing but was fined for minor infractions, even a simple letter to the file, they were returned to their school and resumed...
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New York Post Continues Their Anti-Teacher Crusade.
In Today's New York Post, columnist Ben Kochman penned an article claiming that the teacher choice of $250 was an election year ploy. This is the very same newspaper who objected to the 2014 contract...
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Renewal And Struggling Schools Get More Teach For America Two-Year Wonders.
Back in 2014 Chancellor Carmen Farina told the news media that the Renewal schools will be sent "highly effective"teachers. Instead, the Renewal schools ended up hiring "newbies" instead. Brooklyn's...
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Homelessness And Poverty Affects Student Academic Achievement.
There is little dispute that deep poverty is associated with poor student academic achievement. In fact the New York Times published an article that found that one out of seven public school students...
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DOE Provides Statistics On The ATR Pool And Offers Schools A Hiring Incentive.
I guess its apparent that the DOE's ATR incentive didn't achieve the results that they had hoped and have now put into motion plan B by offering schools an incentive to hire ATRs by getting them for...
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For Principals Its Not About What's Best For The Students.
Most principals control their school budgets (some Renewal school principals do not). Therefore, the Principal has complete control on staff hiring. Because the DOE's policy of school based Fair...
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ATR Assignments Are On SESIS
Thanks to a comment on my previous post I checked the DOE's SESIS page and sure enough, the September assignment was listed under my name.To access SESIS is easy. First, google SESIS and the...
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The Renewal Schools Continue To Be An Academic Mine Field.
The Renewal Schools continue to shed students and must take over-the-counter students just to kept student numbers from falling over the cliff. Despite Chancellor Carmen Farina's commitment to...
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Long Island "Opt Out" Rates And Demographics.
Its no secret that"opt out"rates are demographically based, with low income, minority communities having low"opt out" rates while middle class and White communities having the highest"opt out"rates....
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Do Not Apply To These Queens High Schools.
Now that the school year is a week away, here is a list of Queens High Schools that ATRs should try to stay clear of, if possible. Previously, blogger JD2718 had published a list of Bronx High Schools...
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ATRs Do Not Even Need To Respond To Job Interviews Outside Their Borough.
Over the last two weeks I have received 8 job interviews for Earth Science positions. They are from the Bronx (ugh), Brooklyn (scary), and Manhattan (no parking). No job offer, mind you, just an...
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Why Alexandra Estrella, As Well As Others, Should Not Be A Superintendent.
I laugh when Chancellor Carmen Farina claims she only selects the best talent to be a Superintendent. Yet, the Chancellor apparently selects Superintendents based upon political loyalties rather than...
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