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Second of two parts.
Last time I introduced the ups and downs in the teacher job market. Not long ago, I warned that a dangerous teacher shortage was on the horizon; now, we’re talking about cutbacks, layoffs, and the difficulty of getting a teaching job. What’s the story?
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By Steve Kussin
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5/6/11
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Chris McAvoy, a 16-year-old West Hempstead High School sophomore, has been selected as a finalist to represent Long Island in the New York Science Congress in Albany next month.
The regional …
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By Svenja van den Woldenberg
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5/4/11
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A prolonged standstill that has left West Hempstead teachers working without a contract for two years is nearing an end.
Following the release of a report filed by a state-appointed fact-finder, …
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By Lee Landor
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5/4/11
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The student, all of 12 or 13 years old, slammed my already broken left hand against the cinder-block wall. Pain shot down my plastered skin. The boy then ran out of the suspension room, pursuing another student with whom he had gotten into a fistfight.
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Scott Brinton
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4/7/11
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Randi Weingarten, former president of the United Federation of Teachers, now head of the American Federation of Teachers, recently delivered a speech titled, “Towards a True Development and Evaluation System.” She was being proactive by presenting her own plan in response to recent calls for revamping teacher assessment and tenure.
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By Steve Kussin
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3/17/11
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The New York Times reported last week that three-quarters of the 17,500 freshman at City University of New York’s six community colleges require remedial classes in reading and writing and math.
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Randi Kreiss
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3/10/11
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Much like their West Hempstead counterparts, teachers in the Malverne school district are getting antsy about working with an expired contract.
Whereas the West Hempstead teachers’ union …
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By Lee Landor
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12/22/10
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The state mediator requested by the West Hempstead Board of Education to facilitate contract negotiations with the teachers’ union failed to accomplish that task. Instead, the board …
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Lee Landor
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10/27/10
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These days almost everybody has a complaint about the government. In Washington it’s about health care, taxes, over-regulation and bailouts. Here at home the complaints deal with the economy and real estate taxes, but mostly taxes.
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Jerry Kremer
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10/7/10
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Following rallies by West Hempstead teachers working without a contract since June 2009, the West Hempstead Educators Association met with the district school board last week in a five-hour mediated …
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Lee Landor
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10/6/10
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