Mulgrew says school bureaucracy should take deeper cuts
Warning that the city’s cuts to public schools will “eradicate just about every service and program out there,” teachers union president Michael Mulgrew called for deeper cuts to the education bureaucracy today.
Mulgrew testified on the planned four percent cuts to schools citywide, but mainly focused his comments on what he called “unchecked” spending by the Department of Education on everything but schools. This includes criticism of the DOE for increasing the number of deputy chancellors and giving salary increases to those people, re-categorizing positions instead of eliminating them, and taking credit for cutting more administrative positions than they really did.
While the DOE has increased the number of deputy chancellors and their paychecks, Mulgrew’s explanation of the personnel cuts is wanting.
Warning that the city’s cuts to public schools will “eradicate just about every service and program out there,” teachers union president Michael Mulgrew called for deeper cuts to the education bureaucracy today.
Mulgrew testified on the planned four percent cuts to schools citywide, but mainly focused his comments on what he called “unchecked” spending by the Department of Education on everything but schools. This includes criticism of the DOE for increasing the number of deputy chancellors and giving salary increases to those people, re-categorizing positions instead of eliminating them, and taking credit for cutting more administrative positions than they really did.
While the DOE has increased the number of deputy chancellors and their paychecks, Mulgrew’s explanation of the personnel cuts is wanting.
How scared should SUNY’s Charter School Institute really be?
Was the State University of New York’s ability to approve and oversee charter schools truly at risk during last month’s charter school cap debate? The lead vignette of today’s Times profile of city lobbyist Micah Lashersuggests that it was:
Just when Micah C. Lasher thought it was safe to finally sleep one recent morning, three words appeared in his in-box: “It’s a sham.”If SUNY’s Charter School Institute really was only saved during a middle-of-the-night wrangling, that could be a
Mr. Lasher had stayed up all night helping write a bill to increase the number of charter schools in New York, a cornerstone of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s education agenda. But amid the frenzy, a highly contentious provision had slipped by him: the State University of New York would lose its power to approve charter schools.
