August 31, 2006

NO UNION SINECURE LEFT BEHIND:

Klein: We gotta keep the rejects (ERIN EINHORN, 8/31/06, DAILY NEWS)

Forty-four assistant principals are so inept that no city school wants to hire them - but they'll all have jobs when classes begin next week, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein bemoaned yesterday.

Klein said he must waste "millions of dollars creating jobs we don't need" - money that could be used to hire 80 teachers - because the assistant principals' jobs are protected by their union contract and state law.

Posted by Orrin Judd at August 31, 2006 8:14 AM
Comments

Could he assign them to Riker's Island?

Posted by: jim hamlen at August 31, 2006 8:56 AM

Klein has turned out to be the Larry Summers of the New York City Board of Education, and so far, Bloomberg has showed a little more spine than the folks at Harvard did with Summers when it comes to listening to what he has to say.

Posted by: John at August 31, 2006 9:01 AM

The pay of 44 do nothing rejects = the pay of 80 teachers.

Posted by: ic at August 31, 2006 1:58 PM

Anyone still think the problem isn't the teachers unions?

Posted by: erp at August 31, 2006 3:43 PM
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