NYC Rubber Room Reporter and ATR CONNECT

A close-up look at NYC education policy, politics,and the people who have been, are now, or will be affected by these actions and programs. ATR CONNECT assists individuals who suddenly find themselves in the ATR ("Absent Teacher Reserve") pool and are the "new" rubber roomers, people who have been re-assigned from their life and career. A "Rubber Room" is not a place, but a process.

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Leanna Lansmann On Cathie Black's Business Acumen

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The underlying premise of Leanna Landsmann's argument is that successful business leaders can turn around the absolute failure of public...
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Teachers Sit In "New Rubber Rooms" And Do Nothing; The Gotcha Squad Is Still hard At Work

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Teachers in NYC Rubber Rooms Are Now Scattered So That The NYC Board of Education Can Hide The Harm and Retaliation Parentadvocates.org ...
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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

UFT Goes To Court To Keep Teacher Data Confidential

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Here is the problem with the release of teacher data: what if the scores are false? Not all of them, but enough to say that teacher data can...
Monday, December 6, 2010

Melissa Petro, NYC Teacher Now In The Rubber Room

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Melissa Petro Read below Melissa's essay on why she feels she should still be teaching. In my opinion, if she is a good teacher, LET ...
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Sunday, December 5, 2010

A Look Back: Andrew Wolf On "Banana King Bloomberg", 2008, And "The Fix Is In", 2010

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One of the best journalists around, in my opinion, is Andrew Wolf of the  New York Sun . He seems to always hit the nail right on the head a...
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Laurence Tribe, US Department of Justice Senior Counsel, Speaks About The Disintegration of Justice In America

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U.S. Department of Justice challenges state Chief Justices to fix access to justice systemic deficiencies LINK On July 26, 2010, Laurence...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

New York State Education Officials Are Sued For Giving Cathie Black A Waiver; ATRs Are In Danger

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Praises go to Park Slope parent Eric J. Snyder for suing the State education officials who okay'd the waiver for Cathie Black against th...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Andrew Wolf On The Two-Headed Monster Black-Polokow-Suransky,

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A Chimera Emerges at the Helm of New York Schools; Two-Headed Monster Is Apt Metaphor for New Arrangement By ANDREW WOLF, Special to the S...
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Detroit Schools In A Death Spiral

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Detroit schools in final death spiral? Susan Ohanian web site Detroit is dying a death of a thousand cuts. Still, the cuts add up and w...
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