Friday, May 14, 2010

NB School District may be forced to pay $800K to special ed teachers - The New Britain Herald (newbritainherald.com)


By James Craven
Staff Writer
Posted by Frank Smith at 14.5.10

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

This particular scam has been going on for years. It's another of the infamous mandates from the State; mandates require special ed. class sizes not to exceed a certain number but if they do, teachers of those classes recieve additional compensation for every student above the proscribed number. The scam works this way; lets say the class size of a particular SPED class is mandated not to exceed 10; the class roster shows that 15 are registered for the class; the teacher gets paid extra for the 5 additional students. In reality, while the roster indicates a 15 student enrollment, fewer than that generally show up on a daily basis for instruction - for various reasons. Little if anything is done to alter this situation. It is reputed that a couple of "veteran" SPED teachers at the high school make well over a six figure salary; notice I said make and not earn!
Worse yet is that the Teachers' Union President is a SPED teacher who benefits from this scam!!!!
The New Britain School District's SPED budget alone exceeds the entire Education budget of many CT school districts.
By the way, this is one for which you can't blame Kurtz - this scam has been going on long before her arrival in NB; if you're going to assign blame to anyone, blame your do-nothing liberal, tax and spend State Legislators.

May 14, 2010 at 11:27 AM
Anonymous said...

Good, so that will mean at least 200 to 250 teachers will need to be laid off in order to pay this debt!

May 14, 2010 at 1:28 PM
Anonymous said...

And you think a business would rather locate here over a "right to work" state where unions are basically illegal?

May 14, 2010 at 2:17 PM
Anonymous said...

The answer is simple.

Eliminate all special education teachers in New Britain. Lay them all off. Join most other towns in Connecticut by contracting this service out to private special education schools operated by CAPSEF. The children will receive better educations because we all know that the private sector always outperforms public sector government employees, and the school district and ultimately the taxpayers will pay less for this service, especially since the private schools are non-union, and therefore the teachers are paid based on performance and not some whacked out plan where once they attain tenure, they can sit and do nothing because they can never be fired no matter what they do or don't do.

Everyone wins!

May 14, 2010 at 5:59 PM
Anonymous said...

I agree, the best way to eliminate the scam is to eliminate them altogether and contract out the SPED program to a private provider. I found a list of over 100 towns in Connecticut that currently do it that way, so why can't New Britain?

May 14, 2010 at 6:48 PM
Anonymous said...

I'll bet Governor Christie could fix it in no time!

May 14, 2010 at 7:19 PM

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