Amid the misery of a bus strike, cab drivers are seeing big raises in their take-home pay. (Times)
A new city program that compensates families for the cabs got off to a rocky start. (Schoolbook)
The Daily News says three of the mayoral candidates are acting like puppets for Michael Mulgrew.
The NY Post says pretty much the same thing and seeks a candidate who “requires” co-locations.
A school getting federal grant money to look like a community school could be closed. (GothamSchools)
Districts are required to give disabled student-athletes access to sports or create leagues for them. (AP)
Kristoff: It’s not just resources that low-income children lack. It’s often parental attention as well.
Cuomo’s school aid proposal is filled with funds that only last for only one year. (GothamSchools)
A national labor board has made up its mind about the bus strike, but won’t share its decision. (NY1)
A new tier of educated Chinese graduates shun factory jobs and wait to work in the office. (Times)
Former Turnaround Teacher
I really hope the UFT is smart and chooses one of the three candidates to endorse. However this is how I fear this all plays out.
Since there are three UFT friendly democratic candidates the UFT decides not to endorse anyone for the democratic primary. Then with The Daily News, Post, and likely Bloomberg all ready to endorse Quinn she ends up winning the primary.
The UFT will then be forced to endorse Quinn since her opposition will likely be Joe Lhota, who may be even less UFT friendly then Bloomberg. Either way we would be doomed to another 4 years of Ed deform policy.
My suggestion is that the UFT throws support towards DeBlasio early. While I know and believe Liu is the best candidate, his supposedly scandals will likely keep him from winning the nomination Thomson already had an unsuccessful bid once so it is unlikely a second bid will be any better. DeBlasio seems like our best bet for a candidate that can both win, and move away from the Bloomberg model.
Ellen
Seifman at the POST announced that there would be a mediation meeting between the bus union and the bus companies on Monday. The Mayor (!!!) is bringing the two sides
together.
Larry Littlefield
Those concerned with the future of public education ought to read this nauseating article.
Gambling the pension fund. Heads you win, probably by slashing the pay and outsourcing the jobs of the serfs. Heads you lose.
Who? In NYC it would be the schoolchildren and the taxpayers, since the pension funds are a “heads we say we’re overfunded and get more pension enhancements, tails you lose” situation. And the unions sit on the pension board and approve this sort of thing.
But in Texas, the focus of the article, the teachers don’t get Social Security and have to kick in just as much as the taxpayers for their pensions, and are underpaid. My guess is they are the losers if the bonus rich lose/steal their money.
The private equity and hedge fund managers win either way.
Thompson started this and Liu continued it in NYC. Hevesi, who I had thought was a decent and thoughtful guy, took bribes from these sort of folks.
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TRUE STORY PLEASE READ:
The Daily News and Post could never understand this, but it’s the truth.
A few years back, a superintendent gathered us together as a staff and told us that our high school would be phasing out. We were a great school until several mini schools were developed and actually took our own population and future prospects from the surrounding middle schools.
The Superintendent told us that we would not be accepting freshman come September BUT ALL current students would graduate from the school at its closing date, June 2014. One hand went up and asked “Hiw could this be possible? If this is true, wouldn’t it mean that we’d have a 100% grad rate?”. She could not respond.
At this point, we have kids with 7 credits, 16 credits, maybe 22 credits. You get the point. This Superintendent lied. SHE LIED!!!!! She said the DOE would see to it that these kids would graduate the school. She was sent to do the devil’s work and she made good of it. She LIED straight to our faces. How could we go from 38% – 100%?
Where ate these kids going by the way when next Zjune comes? They will have nowhere near the required 44 credits to graduate. The DOE was not prepared for this. They are in DEEP TROUBLE. To this day, there has been no report on this. We are not even sure that the public knows that Superintendents, DOE officials (including Deputy Chancellors), and much more individuals, LIED. They did a great job of screwing these kids and the parents didn’t even know it.
You now have HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS of kids whose schools are phasing completely out permanently next June, and they are not graduating! Where are they going?
Hey Gotham, what do you think?????
Flerp
It’s no different from the pressure to meet analyst projections each quarter at public corporations, or a hedge fund whose investors are accustomed to big returns. If you have to return 8% every single year for the rest of time, you’ll chase high returns, you’ll play with the accounting, whatever it takes to keep it going as long as you can. Madoff did this for years and nobody cared as long as they were getting their cut. Mayors, governors, comptrollers, and unions are still doing it. Bring it up and get shouted down.
Flerp
If the goal is “anybody but Quinn,” the UFT will wait as long as it can and then endorse whoever looks strongest. It makes sense. And the UFT will not endorse Liu as long as there’s a federal case over his fundraising. If it makes any endorsement, it will have to be Di Blasio or Thompson, with the goal of making it to a runoff. Before a runoff, the “anybody but Quinn” mentality probably benefits Quinn because it splinters the non-Quinn vote. But the balance could shift in a runoff.
Of course, any number of things can happen in the meantime to upset things.
Larry Littlefield
I believe I noted somewhere that the one and only issue in Mayoral endorsements is going to be additional retroactive pension enhancements. Because the recently enacted pension changes allows either the Mayor or the Governor to grant such changes without even the legislature having to vote for it.This rule can be found in S06735 as adopted by the NYS Assembly on March 15. ARTICLE 25: BENEFIT ENHANCEMENTS. Section 1321.http://assembly.state.ny.us/le…S 1321. ELECTION OF BENEFIT ENHANCEMENTS. A. THE CITY OF NEW YORK MAYELECT TO PROVIDE ITS EMPLOYEES THE BENEFIT ENHANCEMENTS PROVIDED FOR IN SECTION THIRTEEN HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE.A SEPARATE ELECTION TO PROVIDE BENEFIT ENHANCEMENTS PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION A OF THIS SECTION MUST BE MADE FOR EACH SPECIFIC COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ORGANIZATION, RECOGNIZED OR CERTIFIED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW.SUCH ELECTION MAY BE MADE AT THE SOLE DISCRETION OF THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO THE RETIREMENT SYSTEMS UPON RECEIPT OF A REQUEST FROM THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING ORGANIZATION, RECOGNIZED OR CERTIFIED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE FOURTEEN OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW TO REPRESENT SUCH ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES.Took me a while to find it, as I had to wade through all the new benefit enhancements that were proposed this year, presumably at the request of the UFT or other unions, including one allowing anyone who didn’t get in on 25/55 to retire immediately at that service level and age without kicking in an extra dime, as a “temporary” “incentive.” Presumably they would have to cut a deal with the Governor for that one. Probably when he is looking for support (or at least no opposition) running for President.But for some other ones, they’ll just have to cut a deal with the next Mayor. The law also says the employees would have to pay for it in higher contributions. But that just means they’d have to hire one of those actuaries who, for a fee, would say it costs nothing. They didn’t put this in the law for nothing. Start the bidding for that endorsement, gentlemen. Forget the endorsement. How about money and help collecting signatures?
Pegasus
Drop the names. We know who they are anyway. They’re all retired. It was a SET-UP!!!!!
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