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How come no one is asking why they aren’t cutting jobs at the DOE to keep the cuts from the schools?

my “understanding,” such as it is, is that DOE admin staffing has been significantly reduced from the board of ed days, but that central staffing has been increasing lately.  the DOE’s reporting is so opaque that it’s impossible (for me at least) to get a clear picture.

your rudeness is exceeded only by your incoherence.  

how am i bullying anyone? by writing that the DOE’s reporting is opaque? i think it’s pretty clear which of us is the bully. 

Yes I am in the same position at my school.  A gift of 3 years with no one caring or giving a ________.  This is a great bonus.  Poor kids, oh well, they will get over it as they have been let down their whole life.  Where’s the story on the “phase out” schools and what A JOKE it is Gotham reporters?  Imagine being a 10th grader in a “phase out” school where teachers are jumping ship left and right and no one is left?  Where is the TRUTH on this?  This should be the #1 story, not this other crap news.

There is an article by WNYC concerning the 2,000 teachers newly job-hunting this year.  This situation was man-made by Bloomberg.  He wants to break up the union and will do whatever it takes to succeed.  The UFT is quietly going along with it.  Where are they?  They are staying quiet on the situation concerning ATRs. How many newly excessed teachers can’t find positions because their salaries are too high?  How many newbies were hired when they had the job fairs?  Sorry, but new teachers shouldn’t be hired until the newly excessed teachers fill the vancancies created by teachers retiring or resigning.  Then and if there are still vacancies available, a school can hire a new teacher.   

 Starting Sept. 6th when schools open ATRs will be sent all over the place.  The DOE has created a system that will be utter chaos.  Who is going to control how an ATR will get their assignment?  How will an ATR get their assignment?  How many ATRs will be sent to all the schools that have safety issues — just to try to push them out of the system.  An ATR in elementary and middle school is supposed to be assigned within their home district, but a high school teacher doesn’t have a home district.  The DOE assigns the high school ATRs – so that means anywhere at all – any district – any location. 

The WNYC article also states that the city will reassign 555 principals, assistant principals, guidance counselors, social workers. attendance teachers, psychologists and school secretaries that were excessed because of the budget cuts.  Usually schools don’t excess assistant principals – so there can’t be that many.  The article has to be incorrect becuase it mentions principals – what school excessed a principal – unless they are talking about the mentor principals.

The DOE can save a lot of money by merging all the small schools that they created.

In a school building where the DOE has closed a school because of failure, they have created 3 or 4 smaller schools.  The DOE has also increased their own budget with the cost of 3 or 4 principals – besides all the other staff to run each small school.  If the DOE would merge 2 of the smaller schools they can do away with the cost of one principal. 

If the WNYC article is correct and there are excessed principals and assistant principals, are the excessed principals and assistant principals going to be treated in the same manner as an ATR teacher?  Will they get a weekly assignment?  Probably “NO.”  The DOE has already created a vacancy for each and every excessed principal and assistant principal.  All the new smaller schools that are being created by all the schools that they closed this year.

The hell with everyone else — who will protect every other DOE employee from a school that was closed. They will have to join all the other ATRs.   The principal from the closed school is guaranteed a job as principal of a newly created smaller school – the principal isn’t to blame for the failure of the school that was closed. 

The UFT goes to court, tries to fight theschool closures – great, but the schools are closed anyway.  Once you become an ATR – unless you are a new teacher with only a year or two — chances are kind of slim on being hired to fill a vacancy.  As long as the DOE accepts the TFAs and Teaching Fellows, a teacher with a higher salary will have a continuous battle.  The DOE will never force principals to accept the ATRs.  Most ATRs are experienced teachers who were let go because of budget cuts – a situation totally out of their control.

I want my UFT dues back.  I pay my dues, but where is the UFT when its members needs them.  I was an ATR in 2010, but I was lucky enough to have gotten a position.  I really feel bad for all the new ATRs and what they are going to go through this year.  Bad enough, last year if you were an ATR at least you got to stay at an assigment for the full year – even if you didn’t like it.  Now the students will pay dearly.  By the time the students learn the teacher’s name, they will have a new ATR teacher.