The Post says the city should freeze teacher pay as a way to weather the fiscal crisis.
Some city kids ditched school to attend the Yankees’ ticker-tape parade Friday. (Daily News)
Jay Mathews: Instead of rating teachers, principals should have power to fire them. (Washington Post)
Nicola Vitale, a teacher at Banana Kelly HS, has won an elite science teaching award. (NY1)
Schools nationwide are negotiating dress codes that accommodate students’ gender identities. (Times)
The dairy industry wants to bring chocolate milk back to schools in a big way. (AP)
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No inclusion here of the NY Times editorial that urges the State Legislature to not let New York’s fiscal situation become like California’s, with junk credit ratings and paying people with IOUs. For sure, thing are headed that way. New Yorkers, particularly those involved with schools, seem to think money grows on trees. They don’t want to cut. The healthcare unions don’t want to cut. No one wants to cut. Just create some new tax. We’re certainly on our way . . . .
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Let’s start the cut at Tweed with its unnecessary expenses. Did they truly needed to spend so much money on a hynotist?! Does the DoE need that many PR/media people working there to put these endless spin on the successes of the education mayor? How about the $80 million dollar ARIS, which is rarely used? How about the city paying for these high-priced education consultants whose office is nothing else but a post office mailbox?
So once there’s a cut at Tweed then we can talk about cuts in other agencies.
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I forgot to mention that the city has set aside $1.2 million to create an office called Teacher Performance Unit (TPU) where retired principals and lawyers were hired to fire incompetent teachers. So much money to deal with only less than .1% of incompetent teachers from the teaching staff.
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