From the Daily News:
New York City is running on financial fumes, Mayor de Blasio said Wednesday as he warned he may have to furlough or layoff municipal employees — including the selfless workers who stood firm on the front lines in the coronavirus crisis.
Instead of combat pay, New York’s new heroes could face weeks without paychecks unless Washington delivers economic relief to the city that’s borne the brunt of the nation’s worst medical crisis in more than a century.
Specific layoff numbers are in the NY Post account of the presser:
“Closing the $1 billion gap would mean laying off 22,000 city employees, which is a staggering number,” de Blasio said during his daily press briefing.
What does Comptroller Scott Stringer say about the layoffs?
Back to the Daily News:
City Comptroller Scott Stringer agreed the federal government should step up, but said layoffs and furloughs should not be on the table. He suggested de Blasio could do much more to cut existing fat.
“At a time when city workers are on the front lines of the pandemic, the mayor should not threaten their livelihoods in this way,” Stringer said. “From ballooning contracts to runaway spending without results, I have said repeatedly that agencies can find greater savings without harming our workers."
As someone who spent 32 years working for the Board of Ed/Department of Ed, I have to concur with Stringer on finding greater savings without layoffs.
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He could easily layoff 2,000 useless, highly paid bureaucrats at Tweed.
I concur and give ATRs the jobs they deserve instead of paying them to do nothing.
NYPD just lost 1 billion.
I read the article in chalkbeat. What did the commission mean exactly by eliminating the ATR?
As a resident and someone who has suffered through ages of democract mismanagement, I hope feds don't bail us out. We asked for it, we got it. Maybe melt the statues and sell the metal to China for scrap.
Anyone attend Nate Parker online meeting? Speaking fees $50-100k. Look him up. Thanks Carranza!
School districts are big money pits and full of corruption.
I received my excess letter today, it was dated yesterday the 23rd. Teachers who have not been excessed in my building will receive their programs tomorrow. I have 20+ yrs in the DOE, no vacancies on open market.
Lucky you
If it is 20 years on regular teacher appointment, you should not be placed in excess (Rule 10). If you are in another title, we can check your contract.
It needs to be 20 years in the same building, but again they bend the rules.
No it doesn't. Read Rule 10:
Rule 10. Teachers at all levels who have served 20 years or longer on regular
appointment shall not be excessed except as follows and except for those in neighboring
schools who are excessed to staff a newly organized school:
Nothing about the same building, just on regular appointment. If you worked as a regular sub (CPT or PPT) that time does not count but all your appointed time is counted. We won grievances on this at Jamaica.
Rule 10A says that they can excess you into your own school.
Rule 10-A. Teachers with twenty (20) years or more of seniority who are covered by
Rule 10 (“Rule 10 status”) may be excessed consistent with all other applicable
provisions of this Agreement, but they will be placed in the school from which they were
excessed as an Excessed Employee/ATR and will not be rotated (as defined in Rule
11(B)(6)(a). These individuals will have all the rights and privileges of other teachers on
the school’s table of organization except for program preference rights, and may be used
for coverages or other teacher related duties. However, teachers who have attained Rule
10 status and are in schools that are phasing out may only be excessed in the last year of
the phase out and only if there is no program in their license area or they have not taught
a program in a different license area with a program satisfactorily during the past two (2)
years. Rule 10 status cannot be attained while an individual is in excess.
What if you had 20 years and the school did a restaffing and you were not rehired?
This year or in the past?
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Here is my idea: Cuomo signs an executive order that eliminates the 180 days required of school. (He can change it to say, 120 days) Then, simply furlough teachers for the 60 days at no pay but keep medical benefits. Thoughts? I also like the idea that someone had on the NYC Teachers Facebook group about voluntary furloughs. This would entail teachers volunteering to take unpaid time off with a guarantee of return to service once a vaccine is produced. (Keep medical benefits during furlough) I would take that deal in a heartbeat. I may be dreaming, but I got nothing better to do right now!
They can't excess you if you are in an appointed position. If you are an ATR, you are in excess and can't achieve Rule 10 status while an ATR.
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I think de Blasio and maybe even us are living in a dream world. NYC definitely needs to cut 8-9 billion right now. They are exhausting every dime from the reserves without thinking about next year and still coming up short a couple billion. Even with a bailout from the Federal government, the best case scenario, it will not be as large as the gap.
If de Blasio and the city does not cut fast and deep now, there will be such a cash crunch(not enough money coming in to pay basic bills) and nothing in the reserves, that draconian cuts will come. I think the city council and mayor are looking forward to 70's style imposed cuts so they can blame someone else for the city looking like Detroit of the 80's and 90's.
Very hard days are ahead. We have built a city that that works decently for everyone, supporting the needs of everyone- including the poorest and most disadvantaged in the good times...but in the bad times everyone suffers and the middle class and poorest will suffer the most. The rich and upper-class have left and can either end their leases or wait out the disasters that here and coming in their "other" homes. They will move their addresses to avoid any increased taxes(like Trump), they'll put their kids in schools outside the city, and they will work from home or offices elsewhere fully protected from the virus and the consequences of a city in turmoil.
The best we can hope for is major cuts for a short time, a vaccine, and then we slow back down to the decline we were already in before the virus. Now that people have discovered so many can work from home, outside the city, and save billions in rent, taxes(including income tax employees pay)- NYC's whole allure may permanently fade and I am afraid. All the programs, benefits, salaries, pensions, employees, etc. that were supported by the system are in mortal danger.
You just made a case for why we need strong unions.
The Mayor would prefer to do nothing difficult, and that includes making any hard cuts, or to highly paid bureaucrats and their fiefs. Cutting school budgets is an easy cut compared to others. What else would the Mayor prefer? He would rather borrow billions of dollars than cut billions of dollars. He is probably banking on an emergency Federal aid package over the summer too.
It is hard to speculate but we will know a lot more shortly - July 1st might tell us a lot - and it will be a fast summer, as we most likely move towards all or most staff back in schools and classes larger than they should be according to medical experts.
Since this is supposedly worse than 2008 and other meltdowns, there really should be a negotiated Early Retirement Incentive as part of the money-saving plan too.
First - eliminate the three tiers of numerous do nothing bureaucrats surrounding Carranza - each makes well over 100k, some double that.
Second - eliminate the army of lawyers left over from the Bloomberg years, whose only job is eviscerating every teacher they get their hands on.
Third - eliminate Ridiculously highly paid educrat consultants, that for the most part don’t know a damn thing.
Fourth - eliminate expensive highly questionable contracts that are deeply tainted with cronyism and the appearance of illegality - Pearson is enemy number one. Their books are complete drivel and are only used to prop open doors, windows and as flying projectiles.
Fifth - stop paying Charter school rents. Isn’t that jackass Cuomo supposed to be a Democrat?
Sixth - Give the city a two week loan, like we did in 91.
Seventh - Over a buyout to veteran teachers and administration.
Eight - Consolidate the numerous Chuck Cheese little schools into one school as before the mighty midget Bloomberg. It will greatly reduce the redundancy in all high salaried titles.
Ninth - Sell municipal bonds
I forgot one more important aspect concerning DOE spending and cuts. There needs to be an outside New York State fiscal manager to sit and approve every decision coming from de Blasio and Carranza. Their dual authority must be greatly curtailed. Neither one can be trusted to use common sense in reference to cuts and spending.
Covid spread
So I haven’t thought much of the outdoor protests theory, but Houston did have one genuine superspreading event recently - George Floyd’s funeral, held June 8.
1 year salary, ill quit.
Keep us employed so the people who claim to care about black teens continue to give them fake diplomas and endorse crime and destruction. that is what we do.
A student just emailed me to ask how can they bring their grade up for class.
What should I reply?
Calendar
Open Market
Spring Break Comp?
3 days left to opt out.
1:07: tell him to take his grade to the top of the Empire State Building.
Where he will see Z100's antenna.
why you're at it.. get rid of the Regents exams that assess nothing... no one even knows what a Regents exam is outside of NY ... Eliminate all those Office of Assessment jobs... On state level.. get rid of all those people who make up flawed test questions .. don't bother to limit the number of topics so teacher can know what to cover.. watered down rubrics that are meaningless.. save money on printing, distribution and per session. Would love to see the numbers on how much that nonsense costs every year! When Bush said no one left behind and made everyone take the Regents...it became toilet paper.. At the very minimum go back to the different levels of diploma NY had before the 90s ... making students who a cognitively impaired take a test in the name of "equal access" is completely idiotic.
107,
I haven’t posted a new assignment or checked student emails on google classroom since Memorial Day. After may 1st, I stopped replying to emails and repeated the same current events assignment each week.
The fact that you are still checking emails from students is adorable.
Do you believe in the tooth fairy as well? Haha
Also get rid of Danielson and Common Core. They instituted these years ago and still the kids' skills are as bad as ever, so they didn't improve anything.
Daniekson and Common Core have nothing to do
With academic improvement and everything to do with placing blame for a culture that denigrates achievement and discipline and celebrates undeserved self-esteem.
I agree but we were told when these were first instituted that the students would gain better skills and come to high school better prepared. Fat chance at that. Also Danielson only rewards teachers that teach good schools and punishes teachers who are in bad schools.
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