Council members unite to defend city teachers against criticism
City Councilman Fernando Cabrera speaks at a press conference defending teachers outside City Hall today.At a press conference today to criticize the release of teachers’ ratings and the tone Mayor Bloomberg has set recently when talking about city teachers, Cabrera suggested that Bloomberg take over a classroom for a week.
“I guarantee he’ll get his attitude well changed,” said Cabrera, who said his son is studying to become a special education teacher but fears that the city’s administration “doesn’t believe in teachers.”
Cabrera was unusual in suggesting that anything could be done to alter the mayor’s attitude. Steven Levin, the