i’m really fascinated in watching the progress of this charter school in nyc. they have put together an amazing financial model in which starting teachers’ salary is $125,000 – about 2 1/2 times the national average. pretty incredible, and even more so when you investigate that they are managing this without any private funding and by cutting down on administrative positions and starting principals at salaries significantly less than teachers. the nyt has an interesting article. i’ll be anxious to see how this pans out.
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Speaking of NYC schools, I was listening to this and wondered if you’d ever heard of ‘The Rubber Room’ when you were working up there.
MP3:
http://podcast.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/350.mp3
And some text:
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=350
i haven’t heard of the rubber room and now i’m kind of fascinated! i’m going up next week, maybe i can do some nancy drew sleuthwork and report back to you…
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