With plenty of money in the bank, Keith Wofford is well-equipped to sell voters on his vision for an attorney general who eschews policing corporations in favor of claiming unprecedented power to chase corruption.
‘At almost every turn, the contract benefits the Department of Education and does little to improve the lot of the vast majority of union members.’
In addition to the staff shortages, District 75 has a teacher-absentee rate exceeding the rate of New York City teacher absenteeism citywide, according to federal data.
Most members of the Absent Teacher Reserve aren’t there for disciplinary lapses. Many are trapped by a combination of reforms that put experienced teachers on the sideline and made it costly for principals to get them back in the game.
‘If you just look at the data, we’re good,’ says one expert. ‘But if you look at the actual breakout of the teacher turnover rate, it is significantly higher in communities of color.’
There’s disagreement on how to measure chronic teacher absenteeism, and the causes of it are more complicated than you might assume. But there’s no denying big disparities in absentee rates—even among schools in the same district.
We spoke to residents of Staten Island—site of one of the fall’s most closely watched Congressional races—about their borough’s most pressing issues and whether they intend to swing blue or red this November.
Across the city, state and nation, students deal with missing teachers every day. It’s a multifaceted problem whose impact on school performance is often overlooked in the debates about education policy.
The city is aging, and its older population includes many thousands of people who have never learned English, posing a large challenge to society that current resources are ill-equipped to solve.
Cities across the country including Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Austin as well as the states of South Dakota and Hawaii have renamed Monday’s holiday to honor Native Americans.
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