Mayor Bloomberg and NY City's teachers' union (United Teachers-AFT) have agreed to do away with "rubber rooms" full of teachers accused of wrongdoing or incompetence and speed up hearings for them, reforming a disciplinary system that has made City Hall and the teachers' union subjects of ridicule.
If you haven't read about these "rubber rooms", google NY teacher rubber rooms and see what comes up.
Each one of these terminations have to be assigned an arbitrator and the hearings go on forever.
Steven Brill also wrote an article about "rubber rooms" in the New Yorker Magazine last summer.
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