Department of Education Employee Sent Email

The teachers unions and the Department of Education have done vast harm to the education of America’s children.  New York City is one of the prime examples.  It has been documented that in NYC thousands of teachers are paid to stay out of classrooms because of their incompetence.  These teachers are tenured so NYC can’t fire them.

An education department employee sent an e-mail message to dozens of Queens parent coordinators—DOE employees who work at schools as liaisons between school administrators and the community, asking the coordinators to circulate a petition among parents and others that would be delivered to elected officials. The petition is to urge elected leaders to help end the state's last-in, first-out layoff rule and instead allow "teachers to be retained based on their performance, rather than just seniority."

The United Federation of Teachers called the DOE's petition e-mail potentially illegal and said its lawyers "are reviewing the DOE's conduct."  The teachers union considers it illegal to have the best teachers in the classroom.

New York Senate Republicans introduced a budget bill this week that would allow Mayor Michael Bloomberg to start layoffs with teachers who have received unsatisfactory ratings. The mayor has been predicting that he needs to lay off more than 4,400 teachers and that current law would force him to lose some of his brightest educators.

The teachers union cares nothing about children’s education, they care about power.  The union would rather protect bad teachers than your children getting a good education.

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