Sentences with phrase «called rubber rooms»

In mid-April, Mulgrew agreed with Klein to streamline the teacher - discipline process in a way that, by the end of the year, will close New York's so - called rubber rooms, the infamous «reassignment centers» where the New York City teachers charged with the most extreme incompetence or misconduct (currently 600 out of 80,000) are sent to do nothing while they await tenure - protected arbitration hearings.

Hundreds of teachers sit in so - called rubber rooms in New York City, playing cards, video games, whatever, collecting their salaries, maintaining their healthcare benefits and adding dollars to their defined benefit pensions.

His research had begun, after all, with an article he wrote for The New Yorker about New York City's so - called rubber rooms, where incompetent teachers did nothing — at full pay — for years, while their cases were adjudicated.

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The DN praises UFT President Michael Mulgrew for striking a deal with the city to do away with so - called «rubber rooms.»

The Bloomberg administration and the UFT are still locked in a protracted contract negotiation, although they did just announce a deal on doing away with so - called «rubber rooms.»

They have been spending their days in what used to be called the «rubber room,» not teaching but still being paid.

At the same time, it keeps funding things from the unrestricted fund like the «rubber rooms» and a very large police department while calling it «school site resources».

The New York City Department of Education has chosen to ignore this factor by forcing principals from 39 schools to hire 41 teachers from what was dubbed the «rubber room,» via Steven Brill's New Yorker essay, but is really called the Absent Teacher Reserve, or ATR.

Then there were the so - called «rubber rooms» of New York City, which operated until 2010.