Comments on: City officials to ed commission: standards rollout needs funds

By: A Teacher

A Teacher — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:02:00 +0000

Feel like (iPad typo error)

By: A Teacher

A Teacher — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:43:00 +0000

I am a NYC teacher…The kindergarten and 1st grade and special Ed classes in our school have the Pearson Envisions program, not the majority of the testing grades. We have been told there is no money for a math program, so we are on our own as far a workable math program. Our Literacy Coach is like a drug pusher with the TC units of study, that do not meet the needs of many of our students or the Common Core. Then three months are spent solely on test prep. That is not a well rounded education. Any professional development has been based around teachers reading the Commmon Core and then trying to design performance assessment tasks.
I fel like I am doing a disservice to my students.

By: Nyr683

Nyr683 — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:26:00 +0000

The DOE built a beautiful school in the Bronx over around the Grand Concourse area. The school is spread out for at least an acre or two and 3 different schools occupy the area with each school having its own building!! The school has a huge state of the art football field, common areas with lights and trees for students to relax, study etc…almost college like….there are other wide open areas around the school complex making the place spectacular!!!!! HOWEVER, the school is in an area which has no parking what so ever anywhere around a 10 block radius…..AND GUESS WHAT, the DOE did not build any parking area for teachers to park…That’s right, no where anywhere on the campus is there “teacher parking”. The staff is expected to park on their own…..The DOE….boy you guys are great

By: Matthew Levey

Matthew Levey — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:44:00 +0000

When city officials plead poverty, I ask where the incremental $12 billion in education spending that the Bloomberg administration has lavished on our schools has gone.

Since enrollment has been flat for the last decade, this means per pupil spending is up to around $22,000 – and that’s not enough to develop a common core ready curriculum? Great oppty for an intrepid reporter to detail where the $12 billion has gone. And find out why nothing was set aside to plan for this completely foreseeable requirement.

By: Mary Conway-Spiegel

Mary Conway-Spiegel — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:00:00 +0000

I keep going back to the trailers/mobile units sitting out on lawns/concrete play spaces pretending to be classrooms. Or the fact that one High School in Queens has two bathrooms for hundreds of students? Why is this still OK? So much money is spent on resources that haven’t proven themselves yet.

By: BloombergMustGo

BloombergMustGo — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 02:10:00 +0000

BINGO!!!!

By: Clay

Clay — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:27:00 +0000

“City officials to ed commission: standards rollout needs funds”

How else are they going to be able to pay for the unsupervised overpriced vendors and contractors???

By: Iron E.

Iron E. — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:14:00 +0000

Let me get this straight: The State Education Department decided a while back to create brand new educational standards as well as brand new assessments and evaluations for every student, in every class, for every teacher, in every subject, forever. Then local school districts as well as local teachers unions agreed to this idea. Now they all realize that this plan is actually going to take a massive amount of actual follow through and cost a ton of money and now they are complaining?

By: Vote NO!

Vote NO! — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:07:00 +0000

” He also said the city needed more funds to develop a key piece of the
new teacher evaluation system, rigorous assessments developed by the
city for each grade level and subject area that would factor into
teachers’ evaluations on top of many other criteria.
“As these assessments become more authentic there are real costs that
come along with them,” Polakow-Suransky said. “None of this is funded.”

I posted before regarding this issue:

This APPR is going to cost far more than the 700 million dollars the state “won” from “Race to the Top.” It will also push many good, dedicated educators out of the profession.

By: BloombergMustGo

BloombergMustGo — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:07:00 +0000

“But Walcott said teachers have in fact received the support they need to prepare students for the new tests,..” OK, there is no polite way to put this: This man is an i d i o t!
There is almost NOTHING available in terms of support for the CCLS. NOTHING. Administrators are useless as many of them have minimal to no classroom experience as it is. They most definitely have no clue when it comes to implementig the new standards. Also, they are too busy trying to figure out how to use Danielson to fire teachers. There are NO CCLS aligned textbooks available and the material found online is pathetically inadequate. Teachers are scrambling to create curriculum maps and design units while concurrently teaching the new material. It’s absolutely ridiculous and a prime example of the atrocious job Bloomberg and Cuomo are doing in education. But they are rich so it doesn’t matter.
I believe this is where someone rants about teacher pensions.