From the Post:
The nine new “executive superintendents” that Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza is adding to the education bureaucracy will cost at least $2.5 million a year, officials say.
Each extra edu-crat will get a salary of $190,000 and up. Fringe benefits add at least $82,000 apiece to the cost, according to the Independent Budget Office.
Department of Education officials say the posts will streamline operations.
That last line is very difficult to believe. What will they be doing? Further down in the article we hear the answer.The new execs will oversee 31 district superintendents and report to Carranza along with five deputy chancellors and a new “chief academic officer.”
Just what the schools need: more central administrators. Well maybe not. I guess we can possibly see some positive in that perhaps central DOE will reign in crazy superintendents but more likely these new positions will just be another layer of useless bureaucracy.
Doenuts gets the last word here:
Tweed re-orgs have become like rugs in the Oval
Office. Each new boss gets to pick his or her own and when it's picked, that's
"the look" for the next few years. But this new re-org has all the
looks and feels of an entity that will not alienate its current employees and
can navigate the politics of the time.
Oh and one more last, last word: Has anyone seen an UFT official reaction?
18 comments:
Where is Mulgrew on this? Sounds like it is business as usual as our contract is a bunch of compensation deferrals due to the city being broke. Mulgrew is useless and harms teachers whether he realizes it or not.
Same a usual, nobody cares. keep suffering...
No links to Koch bros cite will be posted. I don't want to have to read and approve comments before they post so would the anti-union person who keeps putting the link to that cite please stop. This is a pro-union blog. Surely, the Kochs can afford their own advertising.
On more important UFT news, Manchester United is playing Milan on Wednesday night and 99% are staying in the UFT! Come on all you Reds!
Leo you ponce.
Is there a real solution to such bloat?
Nothing that the suits do at Tweed has a positive impact on what goes on in my classroom. In fact, I still teach and students learn in spite of what they do.
How do these people live with themselves knowing that they could retire tomorrow and nothing would change? I have to believe that secretly these people know that their jobs are meaningless, yet they think themselves important. These people love to create work for other people just to justify their positions.
The 2.5 million would have been better spent on giving the teachers a raise in the next contract.
I thought it was a free speech blog. What are you afraid of? A few anti union links? Grow some balls. If you have a strong pro union message it shouldn’t matter if someone posts a few links that might criticize the benefits of unionism. If your afraid you should up your game. Competition of ideas makes us work harder to clearly define the positives of our position. Let people see the anti union posts and let the informed an educated reader decide.
We have let people say whatever they want but we draw the line at links to anti-union sites. Sorry if that offends you.
And don’t mention Arthur’s crush on Amy.
So James, you're saying it's ok to demean members of UFT brass and school leaders, but heaven forbid anti union talk.
James, you are a hypocrite and a joke!
I guess you have made a poor pro union argument. I feel your pain it’s hard to defend the overall benefits of the UFT when members are constantly being screwed by the one organization they pay and are suppose to trust to have their back. It’s easier to just remove the anti union links then allow educated individuals to determine for themselves.
Say whatever you want. Just find the anti-union websites on your own.
July 24 11:01 AM, Your comment is in poor taste and a bad joke. I sent it to our committee and they are deadlocked on whether it stays or goes.
When you made your first attack on Arthur here, I censored it as he was very offended by your comment.
When you put it up again and explained it the second time, we let it go. As a result, Arthur removed a link to the ICEUFT blog from the NYC Educator blog. Supporting free speech here from an anonymous person cost us a great supporter. You now continue to place me in no win situation that I don't enjoy at all. Please stop and I would appreciate if you would email me off list to discuss further.
Thanks,
James
We all know about Arthur and his crush on Amy. She is cute! I guess its ok to offend everyone else on these blogs except the individuals you approve of, James?
There is a growing number of us that can't stand you, James. Whether or not you care, fact are
facts.
Same old comment from the same asshole troll.
Read the last comment 6:16. We lost a great supporter because stupid comments like yours are allowed here. Maybe administrators can put a tracking device to figure out who you are.
I'm glad to read the NYC teacher blogs. I spent almost half my career as a sub and regular teacher in NY. It was too stressful for me, so I made a career change. Less money, but worth it to me. My current local is also smaller and very active. I've seen several president/executive board changes in a relatively short time. When our membership is unhappy with a contract or lack of action- they vote them out.
I hadn't realized how large the UFT membership is- a large boat is harder to turn around. And truly, I only started to pay closer attention to union stuff in the last 5 years or so.
One of the things I like the most about reading the teacher blogs is the camaraderie. When that AP was in my life, I felt overwhelmed. But after reading the blogs, I realize that he's just another ** admin. And from reading another commenter on another blog, there are ways to get along with some of the ** admins. Those two lessons gave me confidence and tools to deal with other bosses. I still get cranky, but nothing like before.
Glad you are reading us. Makes us feel we can make a difference.
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