To the Daily News, Sept. 3, 2007

Sep 3, 2007 10:52 AM

To the editor:

At a time when we need all the talented educators we can find to work in New York City public schools, Chancellor Klein tells the Daily News he wants to terminate skilled, “excessed” teachers who, through no fault of their own, find themselves without classroom assignments (“He Learned His Lesson: Schools Boss Talks Reform With News,” September 3).

Instead of proposing innovative solutions (such as using excessed teachers to fill vacancies and lower class size), the Chancellor puts forth a counter-productive and wrong-headed alternative that would waste talent and most certainly thwart future teacher recruitment efforts. After all, who would want to work in such an unimaginative (and punitive) educational system?

Randi Weingarten

President
United Federation of Teachers