UFT chief Michael Mulgrew signaled the union might not help with rehiring at turnaround schools. (NY1)
Several turnaround schools had no teachers rates unsatisfactory in recent years, or just a handful. (Post)
A for-profit education firm is seriously gouging some city charter schools on rent and facilities costs. (Post)
The scheme used to boost attendance rates at the Shuang Wen School might not be rare. (DNAInfo)
A handful of school administrators were demoted after being caught in affairs with colleagues. (Post)
Mayor Bloomberg, again: Results of teacher evaluations shouldn’t go just to parents. (Daily News)
Michael Winerip: Very little separates some A- and F-rated schools on the city’s progress reports. (Times)
When families withdraw from private schools, the schools sometimes sue for the year’s tuition. (Times)
Several issues are frustrating families as competition between public and private schools builds. (WSJ)
As Common Core implementation advances nationally, criticism of it is growing louder. (USA Today)
Gail Collins: The “Pineapple” test question epitomizes the ill-advised privatization of education. (Times)
The Daily News frets that SUNY’s Board of Trustees might be turning against charter schools.
The Post says Mayor Bloomberg’s latest bid to close 24 schools is a sign of strength, even if it wasn’t 33.
The Washington Post asks why it took a hurricane to induce changes to New Orleans’ school system.
A youth newspaper serving Los Angeles since the Rodney King riots is facing funding cuts. (L.A. Times)
WTF?
The rehiring process for these 24 experiments are ridiculous. It’s so incredible that this is happening and no one is really out there questioning it. 3000 teachers playing musical chairs, reapplying for their jobs and being sent to other schools (anyway) —- what’s the point? What is going on here????
There is 100% a bigger picture here that the DOE is not sharing. This turnaround model of 24 schools is so absurd. The principal hires the most loyal with the ones they originally hired while the other (older) teachers have to play a fake game of finding a “job” on the fake “open market” where 90% of the jobs posted are already filled, but posted by law.
Get the hell outta here!!!!! We are praying for the end of this nonsense!!!!!
jeff s
The word should go out from Mulgrew that no teacher should re-apply for their job. Let them put all of them into the ATR and then hire 3,000 more of these wonderful TFA or Educators 4 Excellence people. As a matter of fact, sincde most of them are Principals, Ernie Logan shoiuld ask his Principals not to participate in this farce but few of them have any you knows whats to stand up to the Walcotts and the rest of those pieces of slime who think they know something about education. I know it’s easy for me to say but if I were still working in the DOE, I wouldn’t reapply for the job I earned with years of hard work. Let them make me an ATR. See if I care. It’s their loss.
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