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Dr. King, Rabbi Prinz, And The March That Helped To Change America PAGE 10 May 2017 Volume 50, Number 9 American Federation NEWS of School Administrators, COUNCIL OF SCHOOL SUPERVISORS AND ADMINISTRATORS AFL-CIO Local 1 Cooperation, The Sun Will Shine on Your Diligence, Parking Space Once More and Trust BY CHUCK WILBANKS parking areas as indicated on park- park at school sites they visit. ing signs, and in no other locations. Each DOE permit will be num- Parking permits are on their way. The city is issuing the permits as a bered and only given out after a No, you’re not hallucinating— result of a legal decision and nego- valid car registration and driver’s Fuel Change parking permits are on their way. tiations between unions, the DOE license is shown to the school prin- “It has been easier for a camel and the city of New York. cipal or designee. Schools must to pass through the eye of a needle The permits for school-based maintain a log of all permits given than for the city to sort out this left- staff will be school specific – that is, out showing which numbered per- over injustice from the Bloomberg they will indicate the name of each mit was given to which individual. at Bronx HS days,” said CSA President Ernest school and the permissible streets The current DOT permits that Logan. “And for too long, this camel for parking. These school-specific schools have are still in effect until BY CHUCK WILBANKS wasn’t even moving. Now, we have permits can only be used to park in next November. Either a current finally made progress.” the designated areas at the school DOT or new DOE permit makes the One of the first things Principal Asya Johnson did Here is how it will work. What displayed on the permit and not user eligible to park in designated when she took over Banana Kelly High School in 2015 follows is according to a statement for any other school. School-based school parking areas. was ask the teachers to reapply for their jobs. by the Department of Education. staff who work in more than one Please note that there is no Out of 23 teachers then working at the South Bronx The DOE will shortly begin to school will be issued permits for increase in the number of parking school, she rehired nine. issue parking permits to school- each of the schools they work in. spaces for each school. Therefore, “That number sticks with me,” she said when recall- based and other members of CSA, Principals will be able to print out the additional permits will not ing the difficult, emotional process during a recent inter- DC 37 and UFT (although it was a one-day generic permit to use if increase the ability of staff to obtain view. CSA that litigated and won the they need to attend a meeting at a a parking spot in a designated area. Such mass dismissals frequently lead to waves of permits case, the city on its own different school. School-based staff will receive grievance filings and lawsuits, fights between unions, accord included in the settlement Finally, permits for CSA, UFT and permits first, followed by non- and even spurious charges that can land principals on permits for teachers as well). These DC 37 staff not based in a school school based central and field newspaper front pages. Ms. Johnson’s work has instead permits only allow the user to park such as central or field office staff will office staff. led to high praise from top Department of Education offi- at schools in the designated school also be generic, permitting the user to cials - “transformational” and “amazing” were the words Continued on Page 6 CHICAGO Popular, Award-Winning Principal Bucks City Hall, Loses Job: A Cautionary Tale BY KATE GIBSON challenge put him at odds with that he did when he didn’t have CPS, which told principals to to is pretty impressive,” she said. ust over a year ago, get permission before talking to An outspoken critic of Troy LaRaviere was by the press. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel all accounts a popular Mr. LaRaviere’s appeals for and the CPS hierarchy, Mr. principal running one sufficient public funding for all LaRaviere, in April 2015, wrote of Chicago’s best public of the city’s schools was nota- an editorial published in the Jelementary schools. Then, he ble because they came from a Chicago Tribune voicing out- was abruptly pushed out, with principal leading a school in rage at spending by then CPS “insubordination” among the a relatively affluent neighbor- Chief Executive Barbara Byrd- allegations made against him by hood, noted Jeanie Chung, a Bennett. She later pled guilty Chicago Public Schools (CPS). former CPS employee and the in a multimillion-dollar bribery Mr. LaRaviere may have parent of a child currently in scheme. begun laying the groundwork public school. “It’s important The local school council that for his April 2016 ouster in the for people at schools like Blaine had hired LaRaviere in 2011 COURTESY CHICAGO TRIBUNE summer of 2013, when he held to speak up for schools where condemned his ouster: Members n Troy LaRaviere was ousted from James G. Blaine Elementary School after a news conference and ripped the budget cuts would be much issued a statement saying they publicly criticizing Chicago Public Schools and the mayor, Rahm Emanuel. into CPS budgets. His public more devastating, and the fact were “outraged that CPS has removed our award-winning principal without due process.” The trouble is, Illinois law School Leaders Local Budgets Standing in prohibits school leaders from forming a collective bargain- Find Changed Support Schools Solidarity With ing unit. Legislators crafted the Landscape But Feds NY and NJ law on the theory that princi- pals and assistant principals are In Capitol 5 Plan Cuts 10 Workers 13 Continued on Page 8 325343_May_17_R1.indd 1 5/9/17 6:22 PM 2 CSA NEWS May 2017 May 2017 CSA NEWS PRESIDENT’S PAGE SUPREME COURT Acting First, Thinking With Janus Case, Unions Likely To Face A Brave New World Council of School Later, Anarchy at the Door Supervisors & Administrators BY CHUCK WILBANKS American Federation of School Administrators, AFL-CIO, Local 1 Heaping More On To Principals’ Plates Is Unwise By Ernest A. Logan Janus, the Greco-Roman god of transi- 40 Rector St., NY, NY 10006 tions and new beginnings, typically was rep- Phone: (212) 823-2020 just had another one of those “What The city bowed to the pressure and redoubled resented by a two-headed man, symbolically Fax: (212) 962-6130 were they thinking?” moments, when its efforts. They should have. But that’s where facing the past and the future. www.csa-nyc.org DOE changed its departmentalization the congratulations end. When you hear the word today it is President rules and diluted principals’ authority In a classic example of “act now, think probably referring to a plaintiff in a fed- Ernest A. Logan to select elementary school teachers later,” they shifted responsibility from ACS Executive Vice President eral court case – Mark Janus, an Illinois Ibased on subject expertise and students’ social workers to school principals. The only state government employee who, like the Mark Cannizzaro needs. Before that came new absentee proto- thing that has changed is who the city will First Vice President plaintiffs in 2016’s Friedrichs v. California Henry Rubio cols that require school principals to assume point the finger at if another tragedy occurs. Teachers’ Association, is challenging the experienced caseworkers’ responsibilities for As school leaders, we passionately want to Treasurer right of unions to collect dues. Christopher Ogno investigating child abuse. Earlier, DOE intro- protect the safety of our students, but within The US Supreme Court is likely to hear Secretary duced a disciplinary code that seeks alterna- the limits of sanity. Instead, DOE mandated Janus within the next year. How the court Sandy DiTrapani tives to student suspension for difficult or that our principals assume responsibility for rules in the case may signal a radically differ- Vice Presidents violent behavior. It was a laudable effort, but figuring out which students fall under an open ent future for unions and millions of work- Debra Handler one with insufficient resources to back it up. ACS investigation and make ultimate deci- ing people around the country. Lois Lee Whatever they were thinking, I’m sure it was sions about the validity of the parent’s excuse Ronald Williams Janus v. AFSCME is nearly identical in its Nancy Russo, Retiree Chapter well-intentioned. But I’d like them to recon- for absence. The policy has colossal room for facts and legal theory to Friedrichs, which sider how good the results are for kids. error. One miscalculation in investigation and essentially faded away after Supreme Court Executive Director Operations Dividing up instruction by subject area is reporting could lead to a principal’s firing or Erminia Claudio Justice Antonin Scalia died and the Supreme relatively new in elementary school, where all even prosecution. Principals run school build- Court deadlocked on the case. General Counsel teachers used to be generalists who taught a ings and are educators. To think they have the David Grandwetter As in Friedrichs, lawyers for Janus have range of subjects, including the ones they were weak in. A recent training of ACS caseworkers is unfair to at-risk children. In fact, argued that public employees who do not trend allows K-6 students to have some teachers who specialize in it’s outrageous and DOE should rethink it.

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