{"id":3390,"date":"2008-04-30T08:47:54","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T13:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2008-04-30T08:47:54","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T13:47:54","slug":"bloomberg_the_negotiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/bloomberg_the_negotiator.html","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg The Negotiator"},"content":{"rendered":"

A looming election<\/a>, more instructional time<\/a> and now it emerges why things went relatively smoothly during the last teachers’ contract negotiations<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The city shouldn’t have to pay unassigned teachers indefinitely — a side effect of the 2005 teachers’ contract that will cost taxpayers a projected $81 million by June, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. <\/p>\n

Bloomberg’s message came in response to a study warning that the pool of nearly 700 teachers who’d been cut from schools — but are paid full salary and benefits to serve as substitutes – would grow indefinitely. <\/p>\n

The report, by the nonprofit The New Teacher Project, called for putting teachers on unpaid leave after they’d spent a year in the pool known as the Absent Teacher Reserve. <\/p>\n

“We are spending tens of millions of dollars, which we are struggling to come up with, and the taxpayer [money] would be better spent on the classroom [than] on supporting these teachers,” said Bloomberg. <\/p>\n

“There was an outside study that said we should not pay them after a while — that the money could be better used.” <\/p>\n

An education official denied a report there’d be a move to reopen contract negotiations to fix the problem, though “we may pursue it separately.” The official didn’t elaborate.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A looming election, more instructional time and now it emerges why things went relatively smoothly during the last teachers’ contract negotiations: The city shouldn’t have to pay unassigned teachers indefinitely — a side effect of the 2005 teachers’ contract that will cost taxpayers a projected $81 million by June, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. Bloomberg’s message […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}