UFT: Principals need to work together with teachers
Sep 5, 2007 3:43 PM
Guidance counselor Jenny Rojas welcomes parents Liana Santiago, Maria Moya and a new student outside PS 53 in the Bronx.
On the opening day of school on Sept. 4, UFT President Randi Weingarten stressed the need for principal-teacher partnerships as the Department of Education hands over more responsibility to individual schools.
“Regardless of your view on the latest reorganization, teachers and principals have to work together to help kids learn,” she said.
An opening day display of unity at PS 53.
To underscore the need for unity, Weingarten made a joint appearance that morning with Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Eliot Spitzer, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Council of School Supervisors and Administrators Ernest Logan at PS 53 in the Bronx.
Later that day, Weingarten visited the Bronx’s MS 22 with Governor Spitzer and the Bronx’s PS 83 with City Council Member James Vacca.
The first day of school went relatively smoothly, with reports of pockets of overcrowding and long line-ups at some enrollment centers.
