Senior watch: Mid-career teachers facing financial crunch. Veteran teachers are being forced out.
In suburban District 64, Park Ridge (where I was local union president and negotiator over many contracts), our salary schedule had competitive entry-level salaries. But it also took 20 years to reach the top of the schedule. And by 10 years, the increases at those middle steps were sometimes less than 1%. Of course, we proposed solutions to the board that would stop punishing mid-career and late
Terrence P. Carter claimed a doctorate as principal at Chicago’s Barton Elementary School. Do we get a rebate?
- Linda Posted on the Ravitch blog from a Chicago reader, notice his “teaching” experience increases two years in a one year span when he is NOT in the classroom, from 2006 to 2007. It’s all bullshit. I found Carter’s salary listings for the years 2006 – 2010 for his work at CPS, in the Teacher and Administrator Salary Database at the Family Taxpayer Foundation. A master’s degree is listed for Ca
Former Chicago AUSL turnaround school guy “Dr.” Terrence P. Carter is no doctor. And he may not even be certified.
Every day brings more problems for the New London, Connecticut board of education and their now-on-hold decision to hire Terrence P. Carter as their school superintendent. Carter came from Chicago where he worked on managing turnaround schools for the Academy for Urban School Leadership (AUSL), claiming a PH.D. – which he now admits he did not earn. - From The Day Carter’s certification for New
7-22-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: NBC’s Erin Carlson: “Karen Lewis for Eva Peron.” No. Madonna for Eva Peron. Lewis for mayor.“Lewis has been an Eva Peron-style champion for teachers facing layoffs, school closures and the loss of their pensions (along with police and fire unions).” NBC’s Erin Carlson. Ah. Chicago journalism. Here’s t