The city’s charter school sector is ramping up planning for life after Bloomberg, a big supporter. (WSJ)
The city’s cost of prekindergarten special education has doubled in recent years, raising issues. (Times)
Arbitrators assigned to hear teacher misconduct cases are quitting after not being paid. (NBC NY)
Sexual misconduct allegations against city school workers are up 37 percent over last year. (Daily News)
Chancellor Walcott went to Albany to push bill that would let him fire teachers in those cases. (AP)
At a hearing on proposed changes to the DOE discipline code, students described punitive rules. (NY1)
A student who beat odds to graduate from Heritage High School asks why he’s the exception. (NPR)
High school graduates who are not enrolled in college are increasingly unable to find work. (Times)
A Manhattan teenager who came to the U.S. five years ago has written a sci-fi book. (Daily News)
Across the country, schools are cracking down on the time-honored tradition of senior pranks. (WSJ)
The College Board has dropped a plan to offer a rare summer SAT to high-paying students. (Times)
A financial audit is turning up issues at three Georgia charter schools tied to a Turkish imam. (Times)
A national survey found that parents in Brooklyn and Manhattan spend the most on their kids. (Post)
Ken Hirsh
I hope there is much more investigation and discussion about what is going on with the arbitrators. On the one hand, the system gave them the incentive to handle cases slowly ($1800 per day is $450k per year), but when the government tries to change the system to lower the cost and shorten the case durations, about 40% of them quit. Meanwhile, the state delays paying them and doesn’t provide a reasonable explanation? What is going on? Craziness.
insiderknowledge
I find it laughable that students are complaining about being suspended by saying they miss days of instruction.. Most of the students that get suspended ruin days of instruction with their behavior and were not passing before being suspended. Now we as teachers have to tolerate being talk backed to? Haven’t we learned that permissiveness is how we got here in the first place?
Ellen
Pre-K
The earlier the intervention the better the results. I question the gaps in the costs, but understand that many other munipalities/states do not provide the rich set of services that NYS/NYC provides.
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Though not linked, if you have a couple of minutes, I highly recommend the article in the Times written that exposes the hidden past of Horace Mann’s history of sexual abuse. Almost cried actually.
So interviews are starting in the turnaround schools on Monday. This is going to be a disaster. I have an interview during regents week at my school and I applied to Long Island City and John Adams- I know which school I prefer to work in, but what if I get offered a job at one of the others first? Also, did they cancel arbitration or did the union decide to drop their turnaround lawsuit, because that was supposed to be settled before the start hiring right?
Eastsider
Ken
Arbitrators are jointly selected by labor and management and agree to provide a specific number of dates per month … State Ed who disagreed with parts of the process chose not to negotiate new procedures, NYC did … King calls the NYC process a “model for the state.” The State simply did not request sufficient budget, on purpose, to create a crisis … pennywise and pound foolish … since the DoE and the UFT negotiated new rules in NYC all cases are resolved within 120 days – it takes over 300 in the rest of the state. Many scores of teachers sit … cases ended … without a decision … stupidity of the highest order.
Ken Hirsh
Thanks! What a mess…
http://nyceducator.com/ NYC Educator
My understanding is that employment, if offered, will be conditional on transition going through. You should be interviewed by a panel containing at least two DOE reps. two UFT reps, and the principal of the proposed “new” school.
http://nyceducator.com/ NYC Educator
School employees committing sexual misconduct with students should be in prison. If Walcott can’t even meet the standard to satisfy an arbitrator, he ought not to be given carte blanche to ruin lives based on not only unsubstantiated, but also discredited allegations. That’s disgraceful and un-American.
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