A Harlem charter school called the police about a union photographer in the building. (Post)
The Harbor School has major plans to expand its space and potentially enrollment. (Downtown Express)
Bronx schools are busy with Regents exam prep and visits from Holocaust survivors. (Riverdale Press)
An N.M. student graduated on time by making up an English class in a weekend. (Albuquerque Journal)
Buyout Time?
Now that he has opened the door to buyouts do it right. Offer all Teachers over 55 OR 25years a buyout , with additional years of service added as a sweetener.—Ex: I’ll be 57-give me 5 years credit and i’m gone if the cash buyout is fair. I think a flood of others would follow solving his Teacher hatred issue, atrs, and salary issues.
Mayvonderon
WHAT IS THE DOE DOING ABOUT ADMINISTRATORS WHO ARE “LOW PERFORMING” OR WHO ARE “REMOVED” FROM A SCHOOL LIKE SEVERAL THIS YEAR? DO THEY GET FIRED TOO?
WALCOTT CANNOT ANSWER THAT QUESTION!!
Paladin55
I can tell you what they did to William Bassell, the former principal at LIC HS prior to this school year, the guy who was in charge when LIC became a “Transformation” school. He was given the principal’s job at the School for American Studies, a much more successful school, which is housed together with Newcomers in the old LIC building.
It would seem that LIC’s decline had nothing to do with any of the decisions he made in his tenure there.
nycdoenuts
Just so that I have this clear in my head: you want to keep your pension, want 5 years FREE pension credit AND a cash incentive to leave?
With due respect, I think the plight of ATRs may be better represented by people like my friend, who has 12 years in, has been trying to find a job, but has been unable because his business license has become rare and his social studies license couldn’t be used as a result of the hiring freeze.
The one U that is on his record comes from an unfair observation process that yielded 6 S’s in a single semester and only one U that resulted from a pop-in visit on the very last day of classes.
This guy would rather be teaching, but doesn’t want to give up because he’d lose his pension. He’s stuck between a rock and a hard place…
…and you want free pension years AND a cash payout?
Tim
Seriously. Buyout Time?, you might as well add a nice gold watch and a brand-new 2012 Buick LaCrosse sedan to your buyout package proposal.
Larry Littlefield
What are you, a member of the one percent who are against the middle class?
How about something more reasonable, like a 20/50 pension plan for all teachers, retroactively granted with an announced cost of zero. And when the cost isn’t zero, just eliminate kindergarten and senior years, and cut the pay of future teachers to the minimum wage.
In reality, the priorities of the commentor you criticized have already determined the future of the schools, irrevocably. The only feasible thing to do is to concede that because of the cost of past retroactive pension deals, the city can’t afford to do anything, and just stick the ATRs back in the classroom.
If the DOE has the power to decide which schools children attend, they could do it this way. Use the new school openings to create “ATR schools,” and send all the children of UFT teachers – staring with union reps – to those schools. Eliminate the office of the principal at those schools, installing in their place a “business agent” with no supervisory authority over teachers to handle administrative duties, so management cannot be blamed for undermining education. And then just leave it at that.
Larry Littlefield
Buyout Time, I like your honesty. Having been in public service, I know that you represent the views of your generation. Except I’m not sure they would agree to stop at 25/55, given an upcoming Mayoral election and UFT control of the New York State legislature.
Of course, the UFT could get Bloomberg to agree to 25/55, and then go under the table in Albany and get 20/50 or 20 and out a 3 am. Peter Abbate could be counted on to make the proposal and not care about how much the schools will have to damaged to pay for it. Come to think of it, is a deal with Bloomberg even needed, if Cuomo wants to run for President and win the Florida primary?
Buyout Time?
What you seem to miss is the City first proposed these terms years ago and then-poof
Walcott now talks big -but his offer is $1000 for up to 10 years service—in other words just a headline no substance
Buyout Time?
Not my terms–these are the city terms for the last buyout/retirement incentive
offer shmoffer
Walcott is now in the habit of making outlandish statements and phony offers just to make headlines and the papers never call him on it. Remember when he said there were 1000 teachers GUILTY of crimes still in classrooms and he personally would review the cases–end result-he is relooking at 4–yes 4–Not 1000—-check his statements-amazing!
Larry Littlefield
Well, what were the terms for all the buyouts from 1995 to 2000, during the teacher shortage? Remember those?
I suppose one can make the case that since having all the vets leave then and replaced by the uncertified the city could afford to hire was killing the schools, the terms could be even more generous now that the city can’t afford to hire replacements.
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