A hearing about the city’s plan to close a Harlem middle school drew fire. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook)
A requirement that the city try to help teachers before firing them ended some termination bids. (Post)
One of the teachers the city tried but failed to fire left students unattended in darkened classroom. (Post)
An English teacher at James Madison High School was suspended for misspelling words. (Post)
The Post says the teachers’ cases all show that arbitrators shouldn’t weigh in on poor evaluations. (Post)
This spring, Pace University education students will practice instruction on avatars. (Downtown Express)
Some families remain upset about the city’s rezoning plans for Lower Manhattan. (Downtown Express)
Townspeople aren’t happy about a student’s push to have a prayer removed from her R.I. school. (Times)
President Obama is set to propose tying colleges’ federal aid to whether they help students. (Times)
Transformation Teacher
So you get saved from the “Turn Around” likely for political reasons, are still getting the money this year, and are complaining?
guest
I guess the Post missed Obama’s request to stop bashing teachers. I’m shocked.
reality-based educator
The NY Post is owned by News Corporation, a company that has seen twenty of its employees arrested on various charges relating to a hacking scandal, including phone hacking, computer hacking, conspiracy to cover up a crime, destroying evidence of a crime, bribing police and lying to police.
This list of the arrested includes the former chief editor of the now-closed News of the World tabloid and aide to Prime Minister David Cameron, Andy Coulson, and the former chief executive of News International, the British wing of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire, Rebekah Brooks.Former publisher of the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, Les Hinton, and Murdoch’s son, James, are also being scrutinized by investigators in the case and may be arrested in the near future.
In a settlement it made with some victims of the hacking, News Corporation acknowledged that senior employees and directors of the company knew of the widespread hacking and tried to cover it up by deliberately deceiving investigators and destroying evidence.
That you would act as stenographer for the News Corporation-owned NY Post’s coordinated campaign against teachers wherein they use a handful of examples of teachers engaged in bad behavior, misdeeds or criminal activity and extrapolate that to all 75,000 teachers says less about the fairness or accuracy of the charges against teachers and more about the hypocrisy of those who work for News Corp. and the lamentable need this “independent” news souce called Gotham Schools to parrot everything the Post says as “news” rather than framing it as the political attack it is.
But I get it – after you’ve already worked for a newspaper that has shut down, you don’t want to burn any future bridges to employment for either Bloomberg or Murdoch. After all, there are only so many media outlets that AREN’T owned by those two.
“It is true that differing start dates for age upon kindergarten enrollment make comparisons btw traditional public schools and charters unfair. Frankly, however, the system should give public schools more leeway in this area.”
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