Skip to main contentRemainders: UFT retention rights and retired teacher power
By | June 10, 2010, 11:48pm UTC - With pay and job security increasingly tied to test scores, incidents of cheating are multiplying.
- Retention rights in the teachers union contract give retired teachers first dibs on summer school jobs.
- Helen Zelon looks at the charter & district space wars and questions the new law doesn’t answer.
- Reshma Saujani, who is running against Carolyn Maloney, proposes “Teachers to the Top.”
- Chancellor Klein met with a tough crowd in Queens, where schools are overcrowded.
- Peter Murphy: if the state raises the cost of school construction, the money will come out of classrooms.
- The Alvin Ailey Theater is featuring films produced by NYC students tonight.
- Dan Brown says his school, SEED, is doing great things, but that doesn’t mean all charters are.
- Bill Turque looks at why the D.C. schools and the union took so long to reach a contract deal.
- Community colleges are rethinking how they teach remedial math, a huge obstacle to graduation.
- Chancellor’s Conference Day is all about professional development and wasting time, writes a teacher.
- NYC public school grads now have a website that the city wants to use to stay in touch with them.
- NYC produces the most high school dropouts nationally, but LA has a higher drop out rate.
- And Democrats are thinking of redirecting unspent stimulus money to avoiding teacher layoffs.