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Shortly after Mayor Bloomberg proposed giving new teachers in the “top tier” of their college class $25,000 to repay their student loans, UFT President Michael Mulgrew responded by sending a letter to Chancellor Dennis Walcott advising the city to modify the program to help address a problem more pressing than teacher recruitment: teacher retention.
Mayor Bloomberg’s idea for a loan-forgiveness program to recruit talented teachers should be aimed at retaining teachers, not just hiring them, UFT President Michael Mulgrew warned as he called on the mayor and the Department of Education to negotiate the details with the union so that the plan accomplishes both goals.
Job satisfaction among teachers has plummeted to its lowest level in more than 20 years, according to MetLife’s most recent annual survey of the nation’s public school teachers. Only 44 percent of teachers surveyed reported being very satisfied with their jobs, compared with 59 percent in 2009.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew sent a letter to Chancellor Dennis Walcott urging the Department of Education to institute a student loan forgiveness program to increase teacher retention.
Two new studies show that high teacher turnover and attrition, particularly in high-needs schools, is the product of the poor work environments that exist in many of these schools — not a lack of interest in working with the high-needs children that attend these schools.
With all the mayor’s talk about firing “ineffective” teachers, it seems there must be a big supply of replacements just waiting in the wings, busily perfecting their lesson plans and brushing up on testing metrics. One can only hope so. Because 6,000 teachers and support staff left on their own last year, even more than the year before.
While New Yorkers are not surprised to discover that an office temp or the waitress serving them is really an aspiring performer, not many know of the Actors’ Work Program which helps professional performers find meaningful sidelines to supplement their incomes — including bringing them into the classroom as substitute teachers.
Following years of trying to recruit more minority teachers so that our national teaching force resembles the diversity in our student population, a new study finds that a high turnover rate among minority teachers is undermining that effort.
Inspired by outstanding teachers, five young men — students at the Bronx Academy of Health Careers — have set their sights on becoming teachers themselves. Tenth-grader Shaquille Mualimmak wants to follow in the footsteps of his 5th-grade history teacher, David Varenne from PS 3.
While employment increased nationwide by 290,000 in April, it’s the worst job market for teachers since the Great Depression.
Schools that once couldn’t fill hard-to-staff positions with certified teachers are being flooded with applications.
Teachers in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool attended job fairs across the city in September in hopes of filling one of the 1,100 vacancies still open as the school year moves into its second month.
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