ATR NYC, blog of displaced DOE staff

SOME ARE ROTATING STILL, ALBEIT ON A YEARLY BASIS. Are you one of these folks? How do you get excessed?

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2023/12/still-rotating.html

From Work-Bites, March 22, 2023: Retirees that have tried Medicare Advantage are not happy with it, probably owing to the denials of service / coverage. > Studies show disenrollments from...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2023/05/nyc-retirees-struggle-to-save.html

URGENT CALL TO ACTION! RALLY FOR OUR HEALTHCARE & ATTEND CITY COUNCIL MEETING, Tuesday, April 11th at 12 PM *RETIREES + ACTIVE CITY WORKERS* Educators, let’s unite with retirees and city w...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2023/04/urgent-call-to-action-rally-for-our.html

EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION NO Medicare Dis-Advantage for New York City Municipal Retirees New York City Municipal retirees have been fighting for almost three years to prevent the City from swi...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2023/03/emergency-mobilization-today-39-1130-1.html

Considering retirement? The dearly departed Chaz, generous, resourceful, humorous , long may his memory live and his lessons for us. --Especially also his financial tips. Let us recall his ti...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2022/04/doe-teachers-considering-retirement-its.html

The passing of Eric Chasanoff (Chaz School Days) was a sobering event for myself and many NYC teachers. We relied on him for reporting accurate, timely, information about NYC education policy, in...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2020/05/another-appreciation-of-widely.html

Baruch Dayan Emes ("G-d is the True Judge"). I am overwhelmed with grief at this terrible news. Eric was a caring and knowledgeable educator, whose talents were squandered by the irresponsible cr...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2020/05/rest-in-peace-eric-chasanoff.html

The UFT is holding its annual meetings for ATRs Friday, November 22, Monday 25, Tuesday 26 at its boro offices. All meetings are 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm. This is for DOE staff in excess; so this incl...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2019/11/official-atr-meetings-by-uft-nov-22-25.html

Just to remind folks: NYC held out against giving teachers a contract after Randi Weingarten's 2005 epic giveback contract.  Costs of NYC living climbed in the years since that contract ran ou...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2019/10/retro-coming-next-week-again-ufts.html

So, it's the end of the summer and the same thing has happened: Earlier in August the NYC Department of Education shut off the open market transfer for a few days and then reopened it. (The far...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2019/08/nycdoe-uft-up-to-same-bs-job-crumbs-at.html

Official UFT ATR meetings where  the UFT will discuss  placements and evaluation  and other questions we may have. Which plan for observations will be put under? The one for probatione...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2018/10/uft-atr-meetings-this-week-placement-is.html

COME TO THE MORE CAUCUS (UFT) MEETING, TOMORROW, SATURDAY, SEP. 22, 12-3 PM, AT THE CUNY GRADUATE CENTER, RM. 5414. Bring concerns, whether they be how the fair funding formula feeds into schoo...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2018/09/come-help-bring-atr-issues-to-plate-for.html

New York City's Department of Education is starting out the new 2018-2019 with problems already. Standard ATR assignment procedure has the ATRs getting their assignments by Thursday afternoon, ...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2018/09/doe-excess-system-starting-out-new-year.html

The two staff member dying in last week's latest mass school shooting were substitutes. Let that sink in. Time magazine gets it. Why doesn't the NYC DOE or the UFT for that matter? Where is Mich...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-staff-members-that-died-at-santa-fe.html

Recent weekend copies of AMNY reported that De Blasio wants active shooter drills for the schools by March 15. The major question looms: will ATRs and other itinerant teachers (traveling "special...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2018/03/hey-doe-are-35-lives-worth-less-than.html

Last week 17 people, students and staff, have lost their lives to gun violence on campus. One key way that teachers helped many students to survive in the Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connec...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2018/02/why-in-era-of-newtown-and-parkland-are.html

The deadline for joining the class action suit of ATRs against the New York City Department of Education has been extended to Friday, February 28, 2018. See the post from last week for details...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2018/02/deadline-of-atr-class-action-suit.html

The deadline for joining the class action suit of ATRs against the DOE has been extended to Friday, Feburary 9, 2018. See the post from last week for details on the excessed teachers' lawsuit.

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2018/02/class-action-vs-nyc-doe-extended.html

EDIT: The class action joining deadline is moved forward. It's finally happening: New York City ATRs are suing the city Department of Education. Members of the Absent Teacher Reserve, or AT...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2018/02/atrs-are-suing-doe.html

In your 50s, 60s, 70s, or even 80s: living out of an RV, or a car, going from seasonal job to seasonable job, as the nomafic working elderly. Jessica Bruder three years ago wrote a breakthrough...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2017/11/your-future-if-scrooge-asher-and-farina.html

The teacher and counselor members of the New York City Absent Teacher reserve know first hand the ramifications of the reformers' attack on senior teachers, and the attack on the schools in under...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-chief-paper-of-nyc-labor-gives.html

When ATRs were disparged nine years by Joel Klein and the DOE, then president of the UFT Randi Weingarten defended ATRs' reputation: > "These are good teachers, mostly from closing schoo...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2017/10/weingarten-defended-atrs-reputation-we.html

The plan was to enjoy my summer, clean out the basement, and go on a few college visits with my daughter. Yeah, storm clouds are brewing for ATRs, but I made a solemn vow to stay above it all, n...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2017/10/do-you-really-believe-that-in-which.html

As you know, we are under attack this year as never before. We need to strategize on surviving this year. 'FEW ATRS WILL BE RATED EFFECTIVE BY PRINCIPALS UNDER THE NEW DOE POLICY' (FROM THE C...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2017/10/come-to-acrs-and-atrs-workshop-this.html

New York City is poised to do a multi-barrelled assault on teachers: ATRs are being put into the classroom at inappropriate time (mid-October) –holding some teaching positions as vacancies unti...

http://atrnyc.blogspot.com/2017/10/why-wont-uft-fight-for-atrs-other.html