WHAT I SENT TO THE NATION

The “Corporate Mentality” BloomKlein Effect on Public Education

A budgetary formula that has paved the way for the abuse and harassment of senior, experienced teachers

-1400 ATR’s – experienced, satisfactory teachers who have been “excessed” and then denied open positions by principals – getting paid to cover classes and make copies – while principals fill their positions with other less senior and lower-paid teachers- and Klein continues to recruit and hire “his own” new teachers at base salary

-Teaching Fellows who are being denied tenure en masse and threatened with loss of jobs while new teachers are being recruited every day

-Teachers in one high school (“small learning community”) in Manhattan who reached their third probationary, “tenure” year and were forced to a 4th probationary year en masse by a retaliatory assistant principal

-700 teachers languishing in “rubber rooms” awaiting the knowledge of why they were placed there for years by principals who have been allowed by BloomKlein to arbitrarily remove teachers from classrooms at will

-The abolition of a seniority transfer system which now makes it impossible for a senior teacher to change schools


A budgetary formula and emphasis on testing that is destroying public education, resulting in

-students being denied “non-core” subjects mandated by the State, e.g. the arts

-principals who force teachers to teach in non-certified areas in order to “cover” these subject areas

-the destruction of special education as students “mainstreamed” into general education are losing or being denied mandated services

-principals and assistant principals playing around with the “numbers” in order to appear to be fulfilling mandates in special education, ESL, and graduation requirements, e.g. Regents passing rates, non-core subjects, and “electives”

-students being given online programs in lieu of actual classroom teacher
instruction in order to “fast track” them out of high school with “credits” and “diplomas” and create more false and misleading data

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