kiknkorea
Joined: 16 May 2008
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 Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 7:55 am Post subject: NYC to stop paying teachers to do nothing |
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NEW YORK � The city and the teachers' union have worked out a deal to stop putting hundreds of teachers waiting for disciplinary hearings in "rubber rooms" and will close the centers this fall, two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Officially known as teacher-reassignment centers, the so-called rubber rooms are off-campus spaces where hundreds of teachers are paid their full salaries to do nothing while they await disciplinary hearings. |
Kind of sad that a "deal" was needed for this action.
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| More than 600 teachers generally spend months or even years in the rubber rooms playing Scrabble, reading or surfing the Internet. |
Amazing.
But it gets better-
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Because the teachers collect their full salaries of $70,000 or more, the city Department of Education estimated last year that the practice was costing the taxpayers $65 million a year. |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100415/ap_on_re_us/us_rubber_rooms |
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