Many states are planning to lower standards for new teachers, because charter schools can’t recruit enough teachers to fill their staff.
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And don’t worry about Africa.
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The charter schools have no choice but to lower standards because of the high rate of turnover. The so-called teachers that leave during the first year are sure the badmouth corporate charters to all their friends and future coworkers. Over time as the churn keeps churning, word-of-mouth spreads making it more difficult to find anyone that is willing to teach for a corporate charter except unemployable people who can’t find a job. For instance: job applicants who just got out of prison after serving a term for a felony or convicted child molesters who are listed on a sex offender registry.
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Lloyd, By coincidence I just finished reading that David Wildstein, the Bridgegate planner, was sentenced to probation, fine, community service & is prohibited from working in government. He now lives in Florida; he could teach for one of the many charters there.
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Wildstein protected Christie and threw Christie’s executive assistant Bridget Ann Kelly, a single mother of four, under the bus. She may go to prison while Wildstein enjoys the beach.
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Tangential topic- The Future Caucus is a bi-partisan political organization of Congressional members who cite a focus on millennial interests, including education. It’s evident that the outcome of Wash. D.C. bi-partisanship directed at education is reflected in groups like the Gates-funded Aspen Senior Congressional Education Staff Network.
A new group of Dems have formed the Future Forum Foundation, focused on millennial interests. The topic of education is prominent among issues. ShareBlue announced the group this week and reported it would be “…helping big business…”. That statement of sentiment appears to have been subsequently edited out of the article. Disparagement of schools, conforming to the rhetoric of hedge fund ed reformers and tech tyrants was included in ShareBlue’s description.
Various lists of Congressional members involved include Jared Polis of Colo.(charter schools), Stephanie Murphy of Fla., who has connections to the for-profit college, Full Sail, Marc Veasy of Texas, who Black Agenda Report described as “wedded to big oil” and who “goes along with the Wall Street crowd” (2015)….
Network for Public Education may want to consider providing the Future Forum Foundation with a contrasting view to that of big business and self-anointed ed reformers.
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Here’s what I wrote as my personal comment:
I am a graduate of SUNY@Buffalo and a New York State Master Teacher, appointed to that program just four years ago by SUNY. I am appalled that SUNY is considering allowing unqualified teachers to instruct our state’s children at the same time they are lauding and elevating certified teachers in their Master Teacher program.
It is hypocritical that SUNY promote and encourage certified teachers in K-12 STEM, but also be supportive of allowing unqualified people, without the requisite educational background and experience to teach in our state’s schools. While the NYS Master Teacher program is open to all K-12 STEM teachers across the state, very few of our ranks are from charter schools. We’ve been told this is probably because teachers in charters don’t stay long in those positions, thereby they don’t gain the required years of experience needed to apply to the program. Evidence has shown that charters aren’t kind to teachers, so they don’t stick around very long.
If private charter schools are unable to find enough qualified people to teach in their schools, perhaps that is an indication their charter to operate was given in error. At the very least it should cause a critical review of that authorization and a detailed reassessment to see if it should continue.
SUNY runs teacher colleges all across NYS. It is hard to understand how they can undercut their own mission to educate and train qualified teachers by even entertaining the notion that uncertified, unqualified persons should be allowed in classrooms educating our most vulnerable youth. Fewer and fewer young adults are entering the SUNY schools to become teachers. How is this proposal in anyway supportive of those that do?
No. This is shameful, and the SUNY trustees should reject this outright.
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Dear SUNY Charters, Teaching is a Profession. Here’s why: https://youtu.be/buuGRyHqlGw
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