Tuesday, January 01, 2019

What Chancellor Carranza Needs To Do This Year.





























Richard Carranza has made a few positive changes since taking over as Chancellor of the NYC public schools..  He has pushed out Carmen Farina's favorite , Amiee Horowitz and has removed a couple of misbehaving principals.  However, he has failed to significantly change the culture at Tweed.  Just read the NYC Public School Parents Blog and you can see how. the pro charter and education reformers still dominate Tweed.

While the Chancellor is not anti teacher like the previous five Chancellors (Levy, Klein, Black, Walcott, and Farina), he has failed to make significant changes to the DOE that is still dominated by Bloomberg era policymakers.  What does Chancellor Carranza need to do?  Let me count the ways.he can tackle the issues.

  • Eliminate Fair Student Funding
  • Remove the Bloomberg policymakers at Tweed. 
  • Let teachers teach and control their classroom.
  • Stop schools from hiring "newbies" when ATRs are available for the subject area.
  • Fully fund schools.
  • Reduce the administrative bloat at the DOE.
  • Lower class sizes.
  • Eliminate Charlotte Danielson rubric for teachers.
  • Reduce paperwork.
  • Hire independent investigators for teachers accused. 
  • More rights for Chapter Leaders.
  • Stop discriminating against veteran teachers.
Come January 1, 2020, let's see if anything changes for the better.


10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chaz, what was the real reason that Horowitz left the DOE? Was it on her terms or somebody else's? She was given a new position where she kept her old salary, but within a few months she resigned. In any event, her departure from the DOE was LONG overdue.

Anonymous said...

Fire that skank Namita Dwarka, Principal of Bryant HS. Still double dipping kids in two different classes that terminate in the same NYS regents, snatching federal NCLB/RFTT funds. Where'd that $200K go Namita?

Anonymous said...

The best possible thing that could happen for teachers is that the Grand High Witch Randi and her Boy Blunder Mike resign.

Anonymous said...

He should allow us to have 2 observations now instead of next year.

Anonymous said...

We love you Chaz!
Thank you for being one of the only people who has the balls to publicly out the DOE and their devious policies,
especially their treatment of ATRs. Keep up the good work in 2019!

Anonymous said...

The UFT and the DOE like corruption so much.

Anonymous said...

The US is no longer a democratic country. Latest study declares that the United States is now classified as a oligarch and no longer is classified as a democracy. The people of this country have lost their word and really only thing left is voting and that is corrupt also.

We all saw the writing on the wall when midget mike bloomberg was here for 12 years and casting his spells of hate on us all and using his money to tame our city and livlihoods. Now today we sit and sit all because of a country tht is now ruled by billionaires and no longer the free will of the people.

Anonymous said...

Is it true that there will be a new evaluation system coming with the new contract in September?

Unknown said...

Tyee Chin principal of Flushing High School was removed as well. Where is him know?

Unknown said...

Tyee Chin principal of Flushing High School was removed as well. Where is him now? I would like to express him my happiness