The Rubber Room Balloon
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 7:58AM
Justin Bathon in Teacher Rights, arbitrators, nyc rubber rooms

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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