Reassignment centers (New York City Department of Education)

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Reassignment centers are holding facilities for New York City Department of Education teachers who are accused of misconduct. Among teachers and in the print media, they are referred to as rubber rooms.[1] The city has 13 reassignment centers.[2]

Rubber room teachers assert that the "rubber room" term is offensive. They also claim that the city's teacher union, the United Federation of Teachers neglects to provide proper representation to teachers assigned to reassignment centers.[3]

Reassignment centers arose as a budgetary concern in bureaucratic studies and press coverage in Spring 2008.[4]

[edit] Documentary

Filmmaker Jeremy Garrett produced an independent documentary on the centers, called "The Rubber Room."[5]

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Where Teachers Sit, Awaiting Their Fates - New York Times
  2. ^ village voice > nyclife > Class Dismissed by Mara Altman
  3. ^ 'Rubber-Room' Teachers Demand Rights - New York Post
  4. ^ Teachers in trouble spending years in 'rubber room' limbo that costs $65M
  5. ^ This American Life
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