The New York Post has an editorial that blames the De Blasio administration for keeping alleged misbehaving teachers on the payroll indefinitely. The problem is that some of those teachers cited in the article were put in their predicament by ex Chancellor Joel Klein, a decade before Bill de Blasio became Mayor of New York City, but don't let the facts get in the way of an editorial.
Furthermore, the statistics used in the editorial is like comparing apples with oranges. The 2012-13 school year showed that 13% of educators charged under 3020-a were terminated. While only 6% were terminated in the 2018-19 school year. The problem with the comparison is that the 3020-a hearings take six months or longer for the arbitrator to write up the decision. Therefore, many of the 2018-19 3020-a cases have not been completed until this year and are not included in the 2018-19 statistics.
Finally, with a more teacher friendly Chancellor in Richard Carranza, the DOE has been more careful in charging teachers under 3020-a (227 compared to 443 in 2012-13) and that is the reason why there are fewer (47%) educators charged under 3020-a from the last year of the Bloomberg era..
This is all because deBlasio has stopped the charters dead in their tracks. Eva is trying to put a spell out on big Bill with the help of Sue Edelman. Maybe Randi can fly in for a Witchfest Battle Royale. May the best witch win!
ReplyDeleteFor many years DOE Legal has been trying to railroad the career of senior teachers with the help of the UFT. They play a lot of dirty tricks to acocomplish it.
DeleteThere are a lot of inconsistencies with this story. First off, it says Aryeh Eller was removed from his school after only 2 years. If this is true, he would not have been tenured at the time, in which case he could have simply been fired without a hearing. Something is seriously off here.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the larger piece of the story that is missing is all the illegal and underhanded tactics the DOE uses to railroad innocent teachers out of their jobs. The Post's perspective is that these teachers are all guilty and are relying upon the UFT to protect their jobs. The public never stops to consider that the only protection the UFT can provide is an attorney to help you fight the charges. Once the DOE decides to bring 3020a specifications, there is nothing the UFT can do to prevent it.
The auFTbonly helps by looking the other way.
DeleteChad why arent you this perceptive when you do your own school statistics on surveys and quality schools? This editors statistical skills are as poor as your own.
ReplyDeleteThe Legal Dept. of the DOE plays all type of tricks to go after senior teachers. They are not too honest over there.
ReplyDeleteAnd our UFT likes to collaborate with dishonest lawyers.
Delete4:48 is hilarious but true.
ReplyDeleteHow ironic that Chaz proudly posts incomplete or poorly interprets data without context ams now he critiques someone with the same issues. Now Chaz knows how we feel when we read his statistics.