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NYC Rubber Room Teachers Pay To Go Back To Their Jobs
One of the most obvious failures of NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg's "education reform" is the process of dumping 'good' and 'bad' teachers into holding pens known as rubber rooms, and then threatening them with termination at their due process, or "teacher trial" unless they pay for their return to a school. Payments may be $1,500 or $20,000, but without any basis in fact or law, it is still extortion. Betsy Combier

Teachers removed from class do U-turns after paying DOE fines
by susan Edelman, NYPOST
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Bad teachers are buying back their jobs.


Many teachers accused of incompetence or misconduct sidestep termination hearings and take city Department of Education deals in which they admit some wrongdoing, pay an