Education Law

The Rubber Room Balloon

Unbelieveable, really. 700 teachers in New York sitting in rubber rooms waiting on hearings, costing the city an estimated 65 million dollars a year. The issue:

...because their cases are heard by 23 arbitrators who work only five days a month, stints of two or three years in a rubber room are common, and some teachers have been there for five or six.

Hire more arbitrators/hearing officers? I don't see anything in the law that prevents that. Just a thought.

Full post as published by Edjurist on June 23, 2009 (boomark / email).