Tuesday
Jun232009
The Rubber Room Balloon
Justin Bathon on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 7:58AM Unbelieveable, really. 700 teachers in New York sitting in rubber rooms waiting on hearings, costing the city an estimated 65 million dollars a year. The issue:
...because their cases are heard by 23 arbitrators who work only five days a month, stints of two or three years in a rubber room are common, and some teachers have been there for five or six.
Hire more arbitrators/hearing officers? I don't see anything in the law that prevents that. Just a thought. I'm sure they have some excuse or another, but at this point I don't think any excuse is sufficient. This has become a national embarassment for education and it needs to go away ... pronto.
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