Comments on: After a long battle, an ultimatum for jobless Teaching Fellows http://gothamschools.org/2009/01/09/after-a-long-battle-an-ultimatum-for-jobless-teaching-fellows/ Sat, 25 May 2013 17:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: yo miss!, formerly in bushwick http://gothamschools.org/2009/01/09/after-a-long-battle-an-ultimatum-for-jobless-teaching-fellows/comment-page-1/#comment-8790 yo miss!, formerly in bushwick Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:47:56 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=7421#comment-8790 Do you know that they are bringing in a new class of TFs this summer? :(

]]> By: Jeff Kaufman http://gothamschools.org/2009/01/09/after-a-long-battle-an-ultimatum-for-jobless-teaching-fellows/comment-page-1/#comment-8690 Jeff Kaufman Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:20:46 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=7421#comment-8690 The result is not surprising. The UFT has long maintained “we have the equivalent of a ‘no-layoff’ clause in our contract. The sad truth is that we lost the no-layoff clause two contracts ago. This is further evidence of its demise.

]]> By: NYC Educator http://gothamschools.org/2009/01/09/after-a-long-battle-an-ultimatum-for-jobless-teaching-fellows/comment-page-1/#comment-8375 NYC Educator Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:01:39 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=7421#comment-8375 Oops/–like they need holes in their heads. Sorry.

]]> By: NYC Educator http://gothamschools.org/2009/01/09/after-a-long-battle-an-ultimatum-for-jobless-teaching-fellows/comment-page-1/#comment-8374 NYC Educator Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:00:12 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=7421#comment-8374 This is not a new thing, and Teaching Fellows have been dumped by the wayside for years now. It’s unconscionable that the folks who run this program recruit people who go through their program only to be unceremoniously tossed from their college classes and left jobless without health insurance. The folks who run the program, unbiased observers who just happen to have millions in city contracts, pretty much proposed the same treatment for veteran teachers stuck in the ATR.

Working Americans need programs like these like need holes in their heads. And as you’ve pointed out, while this goes on, the DoE spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on ad campaigns to recruit new teachers. I watch this stuff and wonder whether we’re all part of some Fellini film.

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