The Bloomberg administration plans to announce that it will open 10 new senior centers, each serving 250 to 300 people.
- He could choose to make the cuts elsewhere in the overall city budget, or DOE spending, including the many billions of dollars on central, contracts, consultants and computers.
- He could choose to draw from the $2 billion still remaining in the city’s health care reserve.
- He could choose to support the retention of the millionaire’s tax, either on the state or city level.
Instead, has chosen to make our children pay the price.
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Let's be realistic here. A decade ago fresh on the ego ride of winning the Mayoral Race Mayor Bloomberg promised the public a better system. Unaware of the complexities of a public school system he hired Joel Klein, a monopoly breaker. Joel Klein proceeded to dismantle the system without really knowing what he was doing; calling it "reform" and hoping his new boss and the public would agree. For ten years this crowd has dismantled a system that needed improvement, but not dismantling. But, no one opposed it. Ten years later the children still can't read, can't do math and the National Scores prove it. Joel Klein, working for R. Murdoch scammed Bloomberg. R. Murdoch and Klein are laughing all the way to the bank.
Mayor Bloomberg was screwed by the very business people he trusted, but it was never about the children it was always about the Mayor's ego.
Mayor Bloomberg, why did you want to steal a third term?
What budget line does teacher salary fall under?
This is an outrage,but why would anyone be surprised. The mayor has cared little about the children or teachers in our public school system since he took office.. He is worried about his charter school friends and has done nothing but test,test,test while the children in this city fail to acquire the skills needed to actually succeed in college or in the future workforce.Next year when grades 3-6 have 32 children and K-2 have at least 25 you should know who to blame for this outrage. It is not Washington or Albany,the culprit is the education disaster,our mayor.
This is a wakeup call to everyone. There will be teacher layoffs every year.
The outsourcing of teachers is right at the doorstep of every classroom in New York. Teaching staff will be steadily replaced by computers and internet web instruction services which are contracted out to private companies that produce the hardware overseas and even service the website overseas. One senior teacher's salary is more enough to pay for 3 or 4 consultants overseas who replace 3 o 4 classroom teachers in US.
Please tell me that I am wrong!
Joel Klein is currently working on a web intruction site called K-12 that is associated with Newscorp.
If the layoffs do materialize, let's go to court and get an injunction against them. We shall state that fewer teachers shall provide for safety hazards for our darling children. The NLRB NEEDS TO BE CALLED IN AS THE MAYOR IS ENGAGING IN UNFAIR LABOR ACTIVITIES WITH HIS PLAN TO ABOLISH LIFO. Let's make use of the National Labor Relations Board!
End of LIFO-Who needs a union?That's what the mayor is gunning for. Senior teachers are the focal point of any school. They mentor newer teachers. If LIFO goes, you will see dismissals to save money AND people will be let go on the basis of race, religion and gender. I'm not kidding.
Just because Bloomberg could hide in his office on 5/12 doesn't mean he can or should evade responsibility forever in all venues.Make his Memorial Day weekend particularly memorable by coming out to the College Point Memorial Dat Parade in NE Queens(near the Whitestone Bridge, a Target/BJs shopping center w free parking) and lots of friendly folks) Sunday 5/29 @1PM starting @ College Point Blvd. + 26th Ave., proceeding N to McNeil Park.College Point was home to the dearly missed Helene Orenstein, who died while Mikey was checking on the state of his lootings in Bermuda during THAT snowstorm. Let's all us unbooted and horseless hoi polloi show him the great welcome to which he has proven himself eminently entitled!
To ignore children in a budget is not a good step.These children are the future of state.
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