LI Teacher's Salaries (Union, Garden City, Nassau: loan, employment, middle school)
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Try reading Shadowbosses - Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind - by Mallory and Elizabeth Factor - explains all about governmental unions and political influence. The teachers' unions are included in this book. Keep your Pepto Bismol handy - this book will make you sick.
If Nassau County and Suffolk County each had only one superintendent, that would go a long way to lowering our taxes. All those superfluous superintendents and asst. superintendents would be laid off along with any other redundancies.
This topic is a horse ready to be beaten to death again.
The side of the story we forget, is that once funds travel outside your financed district- they become open season for federally mandated school choice transfers.
I.E. in a county-run system where money is going to fund a County superintendent of schools, kids in a failing school like Roosevelt have every right to attend a school with open seats in a non-minority majority. i.e. neighboring Garden City, as long as the parents of the home district are willing to drive their students.
The excess in administration is definitely an overprice- considering the salaries are a bit egregious. However their foundation is rooted in the continuation of a segregated society, and high results/accountability for students.
You would notice a significant difference in workflow by laying off 360 (1 supe, and 1 asst. supe) administrators on Long Island. It would come with a savings, but far from a -long way- to lowering ones taxes.
No businesses on LI = High Taxes.
The Island will never compete with NYC when it comes to attracting business, and yet NYC will never compete with LI when it comes to churning out quality K-12 students.
40k start, 3% thereafter, salary caps at 125% of the median household income of district
15k student loan reduction payment (bachelors and masters) on aniversary of 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th year of service
medical, dental, eye coverage (0% contribution years 1-5, 10% contribution years 5-10, ...cap contribution @ 25%)
50% reimbursement for required additional college credits
pension at 60
Well at the rate things are going, with standardized testing companies determining our kids' curriculum, and making millions to do so, why have teachers at all? Why not just give parents a standardized testing manual to beat our kids to death with and be done with it? I am not a teacher but I will tell you that I am sick of all the teacher bashing. Education is a mess right now. Teacher morale is low. They went into the field to....wait for it....teach. And now what they are being told is that in order to secure their jobs they need to strictly teach to the test, as these tests determine their annual performance evaluations/job security.
From kindergarten, kids are broken down into categories- tier1,2,3, depending on performance. With the teachers' job security determined by standardized test scores, kids with special needs/learning disabilities in the lower level tiers are less desireable to have in class, because if they do not score as well as their peers they may skew the overall score and bring the teacher's performance evaluation down. The publishers of standardized testing manuals are making loads of money. They are the winners here. And our kids, who are now no longer individuals, but merely hard data/statistics, are the ones suffering.
Thank G-D for this teacher witch hunt though. It obviously is helping our kids. Oh, wait.....what we are left with is a NIGHTMARE!
40k start, 3% thereafter, salary caps at 125% of the median household income of district
15k student loan reduction payment (bachelors and masters) on aniversary of 3rd, 6th, 9th and 12th year of service
medical, dental, eye coverage (0% contribution years 1-5, 10% contribution years 5-10, ...cap contribution @ 25%)
50% reimbursement for required additional college credits
pension at 60
I am a public school teacher on Long Island and I don't get any of that!!!!
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