Bob Braun reports that three of the Newark principals who spoke against school closings were reinstated, and two were assigned to the central office.
The national reaction to Anderson’s “indefinite suspension” of the five may have led to the reinstatement of the three. It seems they did nothing worse than disagree with the plan to close down public education in a substantial part of Newark, which violated their principles.
The state-appointed superintendent for Newark, Cami Anderson, plans to privatize one-third of Newark’s public schools. The public, which has had no voice in school policy since 1995, reacted with outrage.
Legislation was introduced in the state legislature to stop the school closings.
The mayoral candidate leading the fight against the closings, Ras Baraka, is ahead in the polls.
Chris Christie’s efforts to hand the public schools over to private charter operators has hit some speed bumps and may eventually run into a brick wall if the state legislature supports the people of Newark.
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I do not understand this abusive practice of assigning administrators to central office at the tax payer expense. How can you justify $450k in salary, benefits and replacement cost. The fact is the total salaries involved in the Newark (5) situation is approximately 3/4 of a million dollars!! Discipline must be based on violation of law, district policy or profession code of conduct not for expressing your professional opinion.
Please understand that state appointed fiscal monitors have been using this ploy to bypass laws and contractual obligations for years. In Pleasantville you have multiple administrators assigned to central administration to facilitate political agendas.
I estimate over $750k in salaries and benefits have been thrown down the same black hole that Newark is now feeding. Pleasantville reward was a $1.5 million dollar tax increase for the 2013-2014 school year. Scandalous and a breach of public trust.
People are paid to do a job. They must be held accountable for the position they are being paid. They must be evaluated based on their performance.
And this is the beginning of the story of these five new education leaders, not the end.
I’m proud of the people of Newark, the New Jersey legislators, the reporters who broke the story in local papers, and of Antony Cody and of this blog.
Five years ago, when the betrayal of public education by the Obama administration first became apparent, all I could do was pick myself up and and ask, “Can Democracy and a free press save public education?” In a somewhat pitiful little Daily Kos diary, I suggested congress should look at how the education stimulus money was being awarded, and provide public oversight and accountability over the corporate grifters who were intercepting it. That never happened. We have to go over their heads, and join with the people of Newark and Chicago and Philadelphia, as well as rural Texas and Idaho. That’s how democracy moves. This is what democracy looks like.
The answer is coming back now: Yes, we can.
Two were “assigned” to central office (administrator jail, perhaps?). I hope not. Having been in “teacher jail” I can tell you it’s not much fun.
As my mother used to say, “We’ll just have to see about that!”
Something tells me they’re not just going to shuffle away and shuffle some papers when they walk into the “central office” Monday.
What a hideous state of “democracy” that principals can be fired for voicing their opinions one day and some reinstated the next while others continue to languish as if the powers that be have no respect for the principals or the teachers and students they lead. I would love to know the “justification” they give as to why two principals are being reassigned. And what reason led them to more clarity on “democracy” for the other two by allowing them to have their jobs back? What possible reason could these dictators give?
Thanks God the people are seeing throught this. And it’s partly your doing, keep up the good work, thanks for all the posts.