Earlier this school year the DOE, realizing that there is going to be a teacher shortage in the coming years and has already hit the Bronx, offered schools an incentive to hire ATRs. This incentive would offer schools an ATR for free the first year, half price the second year, and a 25% discount the third year. Yet few schools have taken the DOE up on the deal. The reason is that the ATR comes with his seniority and institutional memory and the ever increasing numbers of Leadership Academy Principals rather not hire them. Moreover, the Bloomberg policymakers at Tweed remind schools how Joel Klein called the ATRs "bad teachers" and rather hire a "newbie" then giving their students an experienced veteran teacher.
The questions I would like answered by the DOE and UFT leadership are the following:
- How many ATRs were placed because of the incentive?
- What was the experience breakdown?
- What was the age breakdown?
- What was the salary breakdown?
- What was the percentage of tenured members?
- What is the breakdown by subject area?
- Placement by District
- Placement by Borough
I am appealing to the MORE and New Action members on the Executive Board to ask these questions to the UFT leadership, the union has the numbers and maybe the union could be pressured in releasing the statistical breakdown and that we can all see how disingenuous the DOE incentive offer has been.
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Awesome questions but you already know that the UFT will not share this information. (Nor will the DOE) As for the teacher shortage, as a Bronx teacher, I can tell you that it is already happening.
The UFT will say they don't have the information or will openly lie. How can you verify it? There's a wink wink going on between the UFT and DOE concerning the ATR incentive. Its a show to silence critics on the ATR issue and evidence for potential lawsuits of discrimination.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/new-york/education/brooklyn-principal-shrink-city-absent-teacher-reserve-article-1.2944116
Systemic age discrimination, victims of closures and abusive principals. Now they are using roving supervisors to go after ATRS. A waste of resources.
I suppose we can now direct all these questions to Mr. Randy Asher, former principal of Brooklyn Tech, now Senior Adviser of Talent Management to Chancellor Farina. As Chancellor Farina says, “While we have made steady progress on reducing the number of teachers in the ATR pool, Randy Asher is a systems thinker and brings the right experience, vision and strategic lens to accelerate this important work." He will have all the answers to your questions.
Their is a coverup of the data. There is a criminal conspiracy to discriminate against the ATRs. Obtain the data and you have a criminal and civil lawsuit against the DOE and woodshop Mulgrew.
Check the Daily news today, principal Asher from BK Tech quit, to take a job, $185,000 per year, to help ATRs find placement.
Betsy Devos will not last the term if she does get confirmed. We have bigger fish to fry Chaz and further ATRs will be golden no sweat....the newbies are on the front lines making way for charters and so called vouchers
Question for the DOE. Will the ATR pool ever cease to exist?? Will the DOE one day realize that they are wasting away talented professional educators to support a mike bloomberg ideology which was created over 10 years ago!! Instead of information regarding the demographics of the ATR pool I would love to see the DOE's plan for the future of the pool and their ideology regarding how they can dissolve this pool and get these great, experienced teachers, guidance counselors, social workers BACK INTO the classrooms and offices where they belong.
Is anyone familiar with this "non profit" group called Phipps. This bogus organization sends in people who are still working on their bachelor degrees to schools and they are operating as counselors, social workers, college planning counselors. I walked into a Phipps office which has premium space inside our school and asked one of the people if they were a counselor and the response was yes. My next question was oh you are a certified counselor with a NYS license and the response was "I am not a certified counselor as I am still working on my bachelors degree. WHy would the DOE use non licensed, non certified people to act like counselors and social workers when the DOE has hundreds of CERTIFIED, NYS LICENSED social workers and guidance counselors already in the ATR pool???? OMG, the DOE is quite remarkable and they truly represent what a disconnected bureaucracy looks and operates, quite sad people.
All the transfer schools have these bogus councilors who are little better than the students they serve. They have one advantage they are cheap less than 30k.
Did Mulgrew really marry that skank that he was skrewing in the woodshop at Grady?
Mikey....c'mon...she was cheating on her husband!
All Mike's are dopes. David's are smart guys!
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