NBC reports the following:
* A teacher will only be able to be removed from a classroom for 60 days. If by then the teacher has not been charged, he or she can return to the classroom unless there are serious accusations involved.
* The deal gives the city greater ability to suspend teachers without pay in more severe cases, and saves taxpayers from spending $30 million a year to pay teachers to essentially do nothing.
* The hearing process will be expedited in part by hiring more hearing officers to adjudicate. In less serious cases, there will be an expedited hearing processs in which the case will be resolved in three hearings over a period of two weeks.
The key is who doesn't get paid in the more "severe" cases. Look for these to be expanded to a wide level - like anything having to do with a child. I'm not talking things like sexual charges (which is already a reason to not get paid - and teachers have been exonerated based on false charges). I'm thinking things like ANY physical confrontation. Who knows what else? Will there be enough ambiguity to give the DOE wide latitude not to pay people?
And what are "serious" accusations? Does anyone trust the UFT to assure bullet proof protections? Will they tell you to file a useless grievance? Expect a report from experts Jeff K and James E on the ICE blog soon.
Ed Notes
Hell, I wasn't paid while I was "suspended" for eight months because those bastards at WCSD wanted me to settle. Mind you, this was over a fucking clerical error on an FMLA form, which the principal lied and said I committed "dishonesty," "negligent of duty," "inefficient," and a host of other slanders resulting from my having been so seriously ill.
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