Friday, August 6, 2010

City opens doors to new physics, G&T, and ESL teachers | GothamSchools

City opens doors to new physics, G&T, and ESL teachers | GothamSchools

City opens doors to new physics, G&T, and ESL teachers

In a Friday afternoon gift to prospective teachers, the city announced today that it is relaxing hiring restrictions in a few more subjects.
Principals are now allowed to look outside the city’s current teaching corps to fill physics, gifted and talented, and elementary English as a second language positions. Applicants who want to teach gifted classes must have special certification from the state.
The positions join a handful of others that are exempt from the Department of Education’s


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