UFT’s detailed analysis finds bias and distortions in ATR findings by DOE-connected firm
Jun 9, 2008 5:50 PM
A new analysis by the UFT thoroughly debunks a recent much publicized report, by an organization that has contracts with the Department of Education, that complained about the financial burden posed by excessed teachers serving in the Absent Teacher Reserve and characterized many ATRs as unable or unwilling to find permanent jobs.
The original report, by The New
Teacher Project, attempts to
shift responsibility for the failure of some ATRs to find permanent positions
to the unassigned teachers themselves and to the union.
“It is a highly-biased position paper, not a research report,” the union analysis concluded. The UFT notes that the
recommendation the report makes to put ATRs who haven't found jobs on unpaid leave “is notably similar to a proposal that the DOE
made in the last contract round.” That idea was completely
dismissed at the time by the fact-finding panel of independent arbitrators.
