Cannizzaro: Compliance Office Inaugural Professional Use Fair Student Releases Mid-Year Meeting, Development: Funding Formula Results On Schools Celebration Summer 2019 For City Budget Throughout NYC For CSA’s Workshops And 3 Asian Courses From 3 American The Executive Association Leadership Institute 5 6 April 2019 Volume 52, Number 8 American Federation NEWS of School Administrators, COUNCIL OF SCHOOL SUPERVISORS AND ADMINISTRATORS AFL-CIO Local 1 New Agreement Solves Long-Simmering Pay Problem For Supervisors in Charge BY CHUCK WILBANKS APs will be paid as principals pay fall. Because the DOE step up to the plate and take from the day they receive the counts the number of weeks a charge, weren’t compensated Assistant principals who CSA General temporary assignment. 10-month AP works to calcu- fairly. But the fact that they take over the duties of princi- Counsel David Additionally, the agreement late their paychecks, moving also were penalized made the pal on a temporary basis will covers the scenario in which up to temporary principal slot situation particularly non- now be paid for that work at Grandwetter: an AP covers for a principal meant their work wasn’t being sensical. It’s good that this is the same rate as a principal. not on an approved leave, but counted at all and they would, behind us.” The stipulation, won by a ‘APs who step up who is using CAR or annual perversely, be paid less in their CSA General Counsel CSA negotiating team, solves leave for an extended period. summer checks. The unfairness David Grandwetter said he is a long-simmering problem in to lead a school In such a situation, immedi- was compounded because the happy to have helped secure which APs took over the duties building deserve ately after two pay periods APs typically had to continue the agreement on behalf of of their principal who left for from the first day of the princi- to handle their own workloads assistant principals. “CSA is medical or other approved rea- fair compensation pal’s absence, the covering AP as well as those of their prin- proud to have negotiated a set sons, but continued to be paid will be paid prospectively. cipals. of clear rules for our APs who as APs, and in some cases even and stability.’ The stipulation also solves “We are glad the DOE has step up to lead a building as saw their pay decrease. another injustice embedded agreed to this correction of supervisor in charge when the The new agreement takes in these situations: Some an unjust practice,” said CSA principal is out for a period of effect immediately and will absence during the 2018-2019 10-month APs who helped President Mark Cannizzaro. absence. Our APs who do this cover APs who fill in for prin- school year and all those in such their schools by acting as prin- “It was bad enough that our work deserve the compensa- cipals on approved leaves of circumstance going forward. The cipals actually saw their annual members, who care enough to tion and the stability.” CSA Saved Early Childhood Education My Job: One Rallying For The Cause Member Tells BY CHUCK WILBANKS the speeches. Council Member Helen Rosenthal, The issue of higher pay who represents parts of His Story for early childhood edu- the Upper West Side, BY STANLEY WILSON cators and staff took on remarked that she had (as told to Chuck Wilbanks) a new urgency in March been to so many of these as two locals of DC 1707, I grew up in the 1950s, and my mother representing teachers and CSA TESTIMONY AT was an elementary school teacher. In those a variety of other day THE CITY COUNCIL care specialists, voted to years, many teachers were reluctant to join COMMITTEE PAGE 9 a union – there was a certain breed who authorize a one-day strike. thought they were above that. They didn’t Advocates took to the consider themselves “labor.” It was also the steps of New York City rallies for ECE members McCarthy era, with rumors of communism Hall for a boisterous rally that she hoped there in labor unions. In my mom’s school – PS on March 20 demand- would be no need for 235 in Brooklyn – there was a one-day ing that Mayor de Blasio more of them. Mark strike in the spring of 1962. Out of the address the problem. CHUCK WILBANKS Treyger, who chairs the entire school, only one teacher went out. A long line of City n On March 20, a lively crowd assembled on the steps of City City Council’s education I became a teacher in 1967. Each of Councilmembers, union Hall to advocate for pay parity for early childhood educators. committee, said Mayor de my first two years opened with strikes. In leaders and ECE took the Blasio should stop cam- 1967, the issue was a salary dispute, but podium to call for pay parity. The tone Council Member Ben Kallos said paigning for president and spend 1968 was really bad, a horrible time, with of many was of anger and frustration. the Mayor’s signature issue was sul- more time in New York to resolve the Oceanville Brownsville struggles. I CSA First Vice President Rosemarie lied by the failure to resolve this issue. this long-simmering fight. “While became an AP in 1972 and a principal in Sinclair stoked the crowd and assured “When the mayor rolled out Pre-K for the pancakes in New Hampshire are 1991. I spent my entire career at PS 297 in them that CSA is with them in their All, he did it on the backs of CSA and undoubtedly tasty,” Mr. Treyger said, Brooklyn. fight, as it has been with CSA ECE 1707 members,” Mr. Kallos said. “put down the maple syrup!” In 1976, the budget crisis led the city members who are directors and assis- The theme that a change is At press time, no date had been set to lay off thousands of educators, and a tant directors. overdue ran through many of for the one-day strike. Continued on Page 10 2 CSA NEWS April 2019 April 2019 CSA NEWS PRESIDENT’S PAGE HIGH SCHOOL Summoning The Courage Teamwork, Leadership, Service In New Collaborative Program BY CRAIG DIFOLCO Council of School To Take The Long View Supervisors & Administrators During the February recess, over American Federation of School 50 cadets in the Naval Junior Reserve Administrators, AFL-CIO, Local 1 Rhetoric of Politicians Shouldn’t Guide Our Schools By Mark Cannizzaro Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) pro- 40 Rector St., NY, NY 10006 Phone: (212) 823-2020 or decades, the United States has released a report in February on the lessons gram of Benjamin Cardozo High School Fax: (212) 962-6130 been awash in critiques and programs learned from the Renewal School Program, and the ROTC program of Freeport High www.csa-nyc.org to improve our schools. In 1965, we were greatly interested. The anonymous School in Long Island participated in President Lyndon Johnson passed the authors deserve kudos for a mostly well-done drill routines, team building activities, President Elementary and Secondary Education report that rightfully acknowledges various and color guard drills as part of a joint Mark Cannizzaro FAct, which established Title 1 school funding stakeholders, including principals, for the exercise between the schools. When Executive Vice President as a weapon in his “War on Poverty.” In the successes of the program. It also acknowl- Assistant Principal Peter Georgatos Henry Rubio 1980’s we had “A Nation at Risk,” and in 2001 edges that missteps included unclear lines of helped establish the program at Cardozo First Vice President at the start of this year, under the leader- Rosemarie Sinclair President George W. Bush passed the No Child accountability. Thankfully, it acknowledges Left Behind Act, a carrot and stick approach that lessons learned must be considered going ship of Principal Meagan Colby, he began Treasurer an ongoing collaboration with Freeport, Christopher Ogno promising that all students would be doing forward in our quest for continuous improve- and this event promises to be the first Secretary grade level work by 2013, conveniently long ment. I hope that was not simply rhetoric. Steani Fanizzi after the president’s term of office ended. But the report also left a lot of unanswered of many activities and competitions Vice Presidents Michael Bloomberg successfully argued for questions. Specifically, we’d like to know between them. Sam Akel mayoral control of schools, while the state how important the following factors were in “As a new program we can learn a Jose Garcia adopted an Annual Professional Performance whether a renewal school succeeded or not: lot from both the leadership of their Ramon Gonzalez school, as well as their students. Events Lois Lee Review, with at least five variations since • How much the principal was involved in Katiana Louissaint 2010. New York City has invested in Renewal selecting and evaluating the CBO partner; Nancy Russo, Retiree Chapter Schools, Community Schools and Pre-K educa- • The relationship between school staff and Students learn military Executive Director Operations tion. Our schools have been designated as Out CBO employees; Erminia Claudio of Time, SINI, SURR, Receivership, Priority, Focus, CSI, and TSI. • How much the principal was involved in allocating resources protocol, naval history General Counsel Other “answers” pushed by non-educators have included leader- and selecting strategies. David Grandwetter ship changes, re-staffing and closing schools. • The effectiveness of superintendent and support personnel; and do physical drills For too long, we have been listening to politicians, research- • The level of trust among stakeholders; Executive Director Field Services ers and reformers, rather than practitioners.