QUEENS
Elementary & Middle Schools
P.S./M.S 042 R. Vernam
P.S. 043
M.S. 053 Brian Piccolo
P.S. 197 The Ocean School
Village Academy
High Schools
Rockaway Park High School for Environmental Sustainability
Rockaway Collegiate High School
CHANCELLOR CARRANZA ANNOUNCES BRONX PLAN HARD-TO-STAFF SALARY DIFFERENTIALS
Initiative will include 10 Bronx District 75 schools
in addition to 50 previously announced Collaborative Schools
NEW YORK
–Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza today announced that staff with
specific
titles at 60 historically underserved schools in the Bronx, Brooklyn,
and Queens will receive an additional $7,200 in salary for the upcoming
school year. Titles include bilingual teachers, bilingual special
education teachers, bilingual guidance counselors,
bilingual social workers, and bilingual school psychologists; and
middle and high school science and math teachers.
The
$7,200 “hard-to-staff” salary differential is part of the Mayor and
Chancellor’s Bronx Plan. The plan is named to reflect the challenges
many Bronx schools face, and
adds resources to improve teacher retention and recruitment, reduce
teacher vacancies and teacher turnover. The differential is available at
50 previously announced Collaborative Schools, and ten Bronx District
75 schools.
“Never underestimate the power of great teachers and their ability to shape the lives of our students,” said
Mayor Bill de Blasio. “The Bronx Plan is about upending the
status quo and building a fairer school system. With these hard-to-staff
salary differentials, we’ll be able to recruit and retain excellent
teachers to ensure that all students across the city,
no matter their zip code, will get the education they deserve. This is
equity and excellence in action.”
“Great
teaching is the foundation of great schools, and this innovative
approach will encourage our teachers to take jobs and stay in
historically underserved schools,”
said Schools Chancellor Richard A. Carranza. “In particular, the
Bronx Plan hard-to-staff differentials will help support our
multilingual learners and students with disabilities, including in ten
Bronx District 75 schools. The Bronx Plan advances equity
now, rights historic wrongs, and helps provide an excellent education
for all students regardless of their zip code.”
“The
Bronx plan is designed to help schools find their own answers to the
challenges they face, and then provides the resources to help make that
happen,” said
Michael Mulgrew, President of the United Federation of Teachers. “Schools will now have a chance to use hard-to-staff differentials to help them recruit and retain teachers.”
The
Bronx Plan, launched in October 2018 as part of the UFT contract
agreement, will support a total of up to 180 historically underserved
schools citywide, with an additional
120 Collaborative Schools and Hard-to-Staff Only schools to join the
initiative next year. Through collaborative decision-making, teachers
and principals will create specific solutions tailored to the needs of
their school communities to increase student achievement.
The
hard-to-staff differential will apply to educators who are hired or
retained this spring to work at Bronx Plan schools in 2019-20. Current
staff, new hires and transfers
are eligible for the salary differential, which will be paid out over
three equal payments with the final payment in 2020-21, to incentivize
continued retention.
At
the 50 Bronx Plan Collaborative Schools, educators in these license
areas or who teach more than 50 percent in the following roles or
subject areas, will be eligible
for the differential and receive an additional $7,200 on top of their
base teaching salary:
·
Teachers in all bilingual licenses, including bilingual special education and bilingual speech
·
English as a Second Language (ESL) Teachers
·
General Science Teachers (Middle School)
·
Earth Science, Physics, and Chemistry Teachers (High School licenses)
·
Mathematics Teachers (Middle and High School)
·
Bilingual Guidance Counselor, Bilingual School Psychologist, Bilingual School Social Workers
In ten District 75 Schools in the Bronx, Bilingual Special Education Teachers will be eligible.
This represents a majority of the District 75 Schools in the Bronx.
Bilingual
Guidance Counselors, Bilingual School Psychologists, and
Bilingual Speech Teachers in district-based positions in the Bronx are
also eligible. These staff work
for School Districts 7-12 or 75, and support multiple schools.
“As a lifelong Bronx resident, the education of our community’s children has always been a top priority,” said
New York Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie. “The Bronx Plan will
support underserved schools across the city and prioritize one of our
greatest challenges – teacher retention. The retention of great
teachers has been proven to have a direct correlation
to the academic performance of our students.”
"This
new Bronx Plan, with $7,200 ‘hard-to-staff’ salary differentials for
teachers, will give a greater chance in succeeding in their academic
career by providing the necessary
resources they need to combat the many difficult challenges that Bronx
schools face,” said
New York State Senator Luis Sepulveda. “This initiative is the
right step to ensuring that our Bronx students are better prepared for
their educational, professional, and personal futures."
“I
am pleased to see that five schools in Senate District 19, and several
nearby, will finally receive much-needed attention this fall under the
Bronx Plan,” said
New York State Senator Roxanne J. Persaud. “While these positions
are considered 'hard-to-staff,' our students are suffering without the
support they deserve; and I commend their diligent teachers in their
efforts to help them achieve success."
“The
Bronx Plan is a step in the right direction that focuses on increasing
resources and opportunities in undeserved schools in New York City and
in particular, the Bronx.
I applaud the Administration for recognizing the importance of
recruiting and retaining quality teachers while reducing vacancies and
turnovers,” said
Council Member Vanessa Gibson. “District 9 and other districts,
face a high concentration of students in temporary housing and the Bronx
Plan will further invest more resources and collaborative measures to
ensure our students achieve academic success.
By adding $7,200 on top of the base salary to bilingual teachers,
guidance counselors, social workers and more, this plan will support and
retain the vital educators of our students, especially within District
75 schools. I am thankful for the six schools
within my district who took advantage of being a part of the Bronx Plan
and I look forward to working with Chancellor Carranza as these
investments are made in our Bronx schools.”
“For
far too long, public schools in the Bronx, specifically those in the
South Bronx, have been at a competitive disadvantage,” said
Council Member Rafael Salamanca. “In addition to the unfair
stigmatization of our neighborhoods, our schools have historically
suffered from underfunding and low teacher retention rates, among other
issues. Caught in the middle of decisions made by adults
are our children who are purely seeking an opportunity to enrich theirs
and their family’s lives. With the creation of the Bronx Plan, however,
positive change is occurring. Instituting a ‘hard-to-staff’ salary
differential scale is an important step in ensuring
high-level teachers and counselors remain in the schools in which they
are making a difference in, while making prospective jobs in
traditionally underserved schools more attractive to educators. I
applaud the de Blasio Administration for taking much needed
action, and look forward to working with Chancellor Carranza on behalf
of students in the Bronx.”
The
Bronx Plan is aligned to the Mayor and Chancellor’s Equity and
Excellence for All agenda, which is building a pathway to success in
college and careers for all students.
Our schools are starting earlier – free, full-day, high-quality
education for three-year-olds and four-year-olds through 3-K for All and
Pre-K for All. They are strengthening foundational skills and
instruction earlier – Universal Literacy so that every student
is reading on grade level by the end of 2nd grade; and Algebra for All
to improve elementary- and middle-school math instruction and ensure
that all 8th graders have access to algebra. They are offering students
more challenging, hands-on, college and career-aligned
coursework – Computer Science for All brings 21st-century computer
science instruction to every school, and AP for All will give all high
school students access to at least five Advanced Placement courses.
Along the way, they are giving students and families
additional support through College Access for All, Single Shepherd, and
investment in Community Schools. Efforts to create more diverse and
inclusive classrooms through Diversity in New York City Public Schools,
the City’s school diversity plan, are central
to this pathway.
Below is a complete list of the schools eligible for the salary differential:
BRONX
Elementary & Middle Schools
P.S. 277
M.S. 301 Paul L. Dunbar
Soundview Academy for Culture and Scholarship
J.H.S. 022 Jordan L. Mott
P.S. 063 Author's Academy
New Millennium Business Academy Middle School
The Highbridge Green School
MS 593
MS 594
North Bronx School of Empowerment
Leaders of Tomorrow
Pelham Gardens Middle School
P.S. 214
Fannie Lou Hamer Middle School
Fairmont Neighborhood School
I.S. X318 Math, Science & Technology Through Arts
Bronx Envision Academy
P.S. 536
High Schools
Mott Haven Village Preparatory High School
Bronx Leadership Academy II High School
The Urban Assembly Bronx Academy of Letters (Grades 6-12)
Renaissance High School for Musical Theater & Tech
Bronx River High School
The Hunts Point School
Gotham Bronx Planorative High School
Bronx Arena High School
School for Tourism and Hospitality
Kingsbridge International High School
High School for Teaching and the Professions
Fordham Leadership Academy
Academy for Scholarship and Entrepreneurship: A College Board School
Bronxdale High School
BROOKLYN
Elementary & Middle Schools
P.S. 150 Christopher
P.S. 165 Ida Posner
The Gregory Jocko Jackson School of Sports, Art, and Technology
P.S. 327 Dr. Rose B. English
Brownsville Bronx Planorative
Mott Hall Bridges Academy
High Schools
High School for Civil Rights
World Academy for Total Community Health High School
The School for Classics: An Academy of Thinkers
Frederick Douglass Academy VII High School
Teachers Preparatory High School
QUEENS
Elementary & Middle Schools
P.S./M.S 042 R. Vernam
P.S. 043
M.S. 053 Brian Piccolo
P.S. 197 The Ocean School
Village Academy
High Schools
Rockaway Park High School for Environmental Sustainability
Rockaway Collegiate High School
BRONX DISTRICT 75 SCHOOLS
J.M. Rapport School Career Development
P.S. X811
P.S. X010
P.S. X017
P.S. 168
P186X Walter J. Damrosch School
P.S. X188
The Vida Bogart School for All Children
P469X – The Bronx School for Continuous Learners
P.S. X721 – Stephen McSweeney School
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Contact: Chancellor’s Press Office (212) 374-5141
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 9, 2019 N-25, 2018-19 |
I’ve met plenty of ATRs with those licenses and I’m sure this incentive isn’t truly open to them. This plan is ridiculous on several levels. Teaching for me (and most teachers I’ve known) is a vocation. A monetary incentive denigrates it to a job - something unpleasant you do only for money. This will not encourage stability in those schools or neighborhoods - it will do the opposite. I started my career in MS 301 then called JHS 120 - many of the teachers there attended it as kids and were originally from the neighborhood. I also grew up in the neighborhood - still one of the poorest and worst in the country. The older teachers there were teaching the grandchildren of their first students. Back then most teachers stayed in the same school they started, for their entire career. I ended up getting excessed and was placed down the block in Jane Addams. I had some of the same kids I taught in 120 as high school students. Many of the teachers back then still have lifelong friendships with their former students. Bloomberg ended these neighborhood schools with his business model. The business model destabilized not only the schools and their staffs, but also the heart of what a teacher should be. It created detachment in all facets of school governance and interpersonal relationships. That the Uft would present this, in the last contract, is an example of how oblivious they have become to the nefarious reality that Bloomberg has created. I don’t believe the chancellor actually believes this has any chance of working, it is just a façade. Otherwise, he actually is what the Post called him today - “a total pathetic twit”.
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