Absent teachers reserve 'crisis' created by Klein, Bloomberg, union
This was written by Marc Epstein, a history teacher at Jamaica High School in New York. It first appeared on Huffington Post. By Marc Epstein When there is evidence of bad public policy, you can safely assume that it took two parties working collaboratively to create the swamp. New York's Department of Education and the teachers' union have found themselves mired down in a dispute over the fates of more than a thousand teachers, many of whom have no assigned teaching position, but continue to collect full-time salaries. This group of teachers is collectively referred to as ATR's, or the absent teacher reserve. Large numbers of ATR's are not instructing students in their licensed areas. Instead they often find themselves working as substitute teachers.
