Mayor-Elect de Blasio, “The ATR Pool is Insanity,” (A Hopeful Scenario)
Mayor-elect de Blasio speaking to a high level Department of Education official,
“Let me get this straight, when you close a school you dump the staff into what is called the ATR pool, the teachers are not assigned to another school, they rotate weekly from school to school and do whatever the principal assigns them, there are over 200 guidance counselors who also rotate and you have just added assistant principals to the rotation system. You have a team of field supervisors who observe and evaluate the folks in the ATR pool, the vast percent are rated satisfactory, and this system is costing, me, costing the city over $100 million a year.”
Department official, “Yes, you’re basically correct, let me explain the underlying reason for this policy.”
de Blasio, “Not not, do you have any evidence that this system improves students’ academic achievement or social and emotional well-being, by evidence I mean a peer-reviewed study?”
Department official, “No, but this policy is a core belief of our administration
