WATERBURY – After the city was unable to negotiate a new contract with the union representing its school building principals, vice principals, supervisors and other administrators, an arbitration panel has made recommendations regarding the issues that were disputed. Those issues…
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These principals, vice principals, instructional leadership directors, and other administrators are too expensive. Cut some of these school administrative positions, and Waterbury Public Schools will then have more money that can go to directly helping students such as hiring more bilingual education teachers, more teachers in general, and more paraprofessionals to directly help students who have learning challenges.
Do any of these ILDs actually WANT to bump to retain a position here? It was pretty common knowledge at hiring time that these positions would vaporize as fast as grant funding. How about the other directors on the chopping block — do they get a fair shake in this scramble, or is it a jello mold in the 2nd floor conference room and sayonara for only certain people? Could now be the time to have a RETIREMENT FAIR inside the Chase Building? This isn’t the Guiness Book of World Records. Rewrite and combine some of these roles. Time for many to step
aside and LET SOMEONE ELSE in their first career show the district what success could look like — because with all of the $ flowing out, this isn’t it.
Why can’t this guy negotiate a contract In other words do his job?? Does he wasn’t to have someone else to blame? EVERY contract goes to Arbitration.. He is letting outsiders decide Waterbury’s fate… Fail
Time for every municipal & state union to go. They are strangling taxpayers to death. Where in the private sector can one extort a guaranteed pension for life along with free medical and prescription drugs after only 20 years of service. Unions are parasites with taxpayers as their hosts. The big losers with this deal will be he taxpayers of Waterbury.
So good maybe you should take the test?
You’d take from an AMERICAN teacher or cop , but say NOTHING of the 3 generations of lazy minorities in every project in Waterbury? OR the THOUSANDS of illegals soaking up MILLIONS in services in your city??? If you rid the city of illegals, you’d be able to give raises and lower taxes…
Yep, money from the ‘state’ is drying up. That has been the socialist experience time and time again. When will people learn?
O’Leary would have more than enough Alliance grant money to absorb the increase if he didn’t use the fund to plug holes in the general fund budget process. The greedy sow is already laying the blame to pass the buck & comes to the proverbial well again to sock it to the taxpayers with a mill increase. I can hear the political spin already. Meanwhile, he creates more jobs in the Mayor’s office. He’s not only a con artist but the ” canard ” king.
And by the way, if you want to start some cuts to realize savings start with those ILD positions. But will Big Bad brother Neil have the temerity to cut his sister out of one one the sacred cow positions ?? Doubt it …
The positions? COMPLETELY ineffective. This district needs to look at the value of those in administration THAT actually are striving to lead our children to academic success. There are a few. The others.. complete failures. Did the turnaround program really “turn anything around”. These positions served as hiding places for a few. It’s about time this district starts rewarding those who deliver and put out pasture those that don’t. 4 salaries in the FACE Center come on?
Have just one person being a curriculum director that oversees all instructional curriculum areas. There’s no need for individual instructional leaders. Send those instructional leaders back into the classroom to actually teach and use their “amazing expertise” if they’re supposed to be such pros at teaching. They’ve been giving the advice to teachers for years. Now it’s time for them to walk the walk instead of just talking the talking. It’s time for them to put up and prove that they really are so amazing…get them teaching again. This will also save money because then they will be paid a teacher’s salary instead of an administrator’s salary.
Spot ON!