This week’s lesson plan is on great numbers, class — we’re getting 3,700 more teachers!
But has anyone done the math?
In truth, this lesson is not about learning, students, budgets or results — it’s about union power.
And it’s about more — more teachers providing more bad instruction in more classrooms to more kids, more of the same.
Mayor Adams announced on Wednesday that the New York City Department of Education — the state’s largest single employer, with 76,000 teachers — will hire an additional 3,700 teachers and 100 assistant principals.
That’s just for starters. The initial hiring is merely a down payment toward a planned total increase of 17,700 teachers, costing about $1.9 billion annually — which Adams has said for years would be too costly.
Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post
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Wai Wah Chin is the founding president of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance of Greater New York.
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