Sweeping payroll problems have put Fort Hamilton High School under investigation. (GothamSchools)
An audit criticized the DOE for expanding a technology initiative too quickly. (GothamSchools, NY1)
Advocates defended a bill that would have fueled special ed funding for religious schools. (SchoolBook)
A new group is pushing for a greater role for teens in local and national schools policy. (GothamSchools)
The Post says merit pay should be used as the carrot in a carrot-and-stick approach for better teachers.
A reunion of John F. Kennedy HS alums could be the school’s last as it begins to close. (Riverdale Press)
P.S. 55 in the Bronx opened its doors this week for an emergency anti-violence forum. (Daily News)
StudentsFirst NY’s advocacy chief argues that the defunct Chancellor’s District didn’t work. (Daily News)
Goldman Sachs is giving $10 million to cut teen offender recidivism using a new funding model. (Times)
Turnaround Teacher
No other media outlet picked up the Ft Hamilton story, which is clearly a major scandal? Typical…
Clay
Re: “Rise & Shine: Hijinks seen to let Fort Hamilton evade hiring rules”, I got an investigative piece for GS, how was Chancellor Walcott’s daughter able to skirt around the hiring freeze with her phys ed license???
Anonymous
Merit pay does not work.
Tricking people into ‘overdrive’ using monetary reward or loss is sick and stupid. The ultimate result will be more burnout and job dissatisfaction, and that’s about it.
The Post is so reliably crappy.
Anonymous
Merit pay does not work.
Tricking people into ‘overdrive’ using monetary reward or loss is sick and stupid. The ultimate result will be more burnout and job dissatisfaction, and that’s about it.
The Post is so reliably crappy.
Former Teacher
From what I have seen, forty-eight hours before the first day of school, principals are allowed to hire anyone, skirting the hiring restrictions. Suddenly, there are “no qualified applicants” and we “ need to hire this live body in front of me.” This is how it was explained to me as to how my child had a first year, no experience teacher in a highly sought after city school.
http://twitter.com/nycdoenuts nycdoenuts
Moreover, the research says that putting them into that overdrive mentality actually reduces the productivity…they wind up doing even worse!! I think it may be time to try merit pay, just so everyone can see what a disaster it will bring -not to the union, but the student achievement.
guest
Would you as a supervisor want to be in a position where a decision you made might mean one person gets a bonus and another doesn’t? Because you know and I know that there will be quotas on just how many highly effectives a ratng officer can issue in a particular school and in a high school, just as an example, the Principal might have to allot it by department (this is a total hypothetical). So you’re the social studies AP and you’re told no more than two highly effectives. Do you want to be the one to choose which two get the money? And as there are no Regents exams in most social studis classes, on what basis?
Ellen
On the StudentsFirst piece:
I agree that the Chancellor’s District didn’t have much effect on the system as a whole. However I can’t see how she made the jump from Rudy Crew to sex. he was nice, but not sexy. It’s such a bbbiiiigggg stretch. And, not for nuthin’, she seems to like to dwell on the issue. How weird is that?
StudentsFirst claims to be a positive influence on children but mounts slanderous attacks to succeed. That kind of nasty can’t be compartmentalized. Children learn from their teachers. Teachers learn from their school leaders. What are they all learning from her?
It’s a stalking horse to deflect attention from the poor results of the StudentsFirst movement.
Anonymous
Right, of course burnout and dissatisfaction translates to lower productivity and diminishes student achievement.
But according to the Post the mediocre became highly effective, the highly effective became great. That’s brilliant.
Jodama
The Open Market Hiring System is a sham. It doesn’t work. I know several qualified ESL teachers who are looking for work through the Open Market and haven’t gotten one job interview. One is a graduate of TC, the other NYU. Both have a few years experience. Yet they haven’t received one interview. How is it good for kids to have a continuous stream of new teachers who have to learn their skills over and over? It’s not.
guest
..and just think, yu have Randi Weingarten to thank for this who allowed them to undo the excessing rules and the guarantee that if you ere excessed, it was the responsibility of the DOE to place you at a vacant position within the district or fasiling that at an available position within the city in your license area.
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