NYC backdoor deal: Klein took state $$ earmarked for class size reduction -- & increased class sizes

[Hannah Bell]

Back in 2007, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer achieved a historic multibillion-dollar increase in state aid to New York City schools.

The centerpiece of the Spitzer plan, known as the Contract for Excellence, required our city's school system to use much of that additional money to reduce class size in all grades by 2012.

But earlier this year, state Education Commissioner David Steiner quietly gave Schools Chancellor Joel Klein permission to change the city's "class-size reduction plan" - and actually increase class size.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2010/09/22/2010-09-22_money_for_nothing_exclusive_city_took_aid_to_cut_class_sizes_okd_packing_more_in.html#ixzz11w3cmH9V


http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2010/09/revelations-concerning-seds-secret.html

[aquart]

1. So what happened to the money?

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Logistically speaking, two things:

1. How does the School's Chancellor expect one teacher to connect to 40 individuals in a single time frame, making education available to each and every one of them?

2. Wouldn't there be fire hazard violations with so many people in one building, let alone one room?

[bettyellen]

3. my friend taught in a rough school way over the legal limit, also no textbooks and this was in a

very upscale neighborhood. several people reported it to the fire dept and nothing happened, it was "failing" so they closed it. which is what they wanted. i bet. they';; unload that building at a huge profit