New York, NY – The president of New York City’s teachers’ union says there’s no agreement on a new teachers evaluation system because of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s “my way or the highway” attitude.
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Michael Mulgrew told reporters Thursday the union had actually reached an agreement with the Department of Education. But then, he said, he assumes the DOE called City Hall and then “we didn’t have an agreement.”
He said he watched the mayor’s news conference where he announced that no agreement had been reached. Mulgrew said he “never saw such blatant misrepresentation of the facts.”
The city faced a deadline of Thursday to submit an evaluation plan to New York state or risk losing up to $450 million in state aid and grants.
Bloomberg said the teachers “unilaterally walked away from our negotiations.”
Sigh!
What else do you expect from king Bloomberg?
There are some people at VIN who must really hate the mayor. It even outweighs their hatred of unions.
Problem with the public schools are the principals. Bloomberg has gotten in horrible unqualified principals that discriminate against & fire Jews, whites & experienced staff. My friend has been told she can’t leave at 2:45 on short Fridays & threatened & harassed. They fire the good teachers & keep the bad ones, their friends.
To Posters #3, #4 , #6
You read what you want to read. The so-called meeting of the minds was killed by the union at the last minute with their eleventh hour demand that the agreement terminate in two years, which would have essentially protected all the teachers now under investigation. This is all about union dues, and the union protecting the rank and file regardless of their merits as educators. Regarding unqualified principals, why blame Bloomberg? Is he the head of the Department of Education? I don’t know the details of the teacher who allegedly wasn’t allowed to leave at 2:45 PM on short Fridays. While on the surface if seems like an actionable cause on her part, there may be more to the story that isn’t being disclosed to us.
Why is it that you all have some grievance against the Mayor that manifests itself in illogical behavior as demonstrated by these posts?