I'm emailing this to both Obama and Duncan and demanding an investigation. [View all]

[Smarmie Doofus]

Another courageous NYC teacher *destroyed* by Bloomberg's "school reform" bureaucracy. For insisting that the bureaucracy follow federal law.

BTW... isn't that what Obama and Duncan are supposed to be doing? Are either of them even aware that they're supposed to be doing that?

I know they are both educational lightweights.... but Jeeeeesuusss...........

OK. I'll stop. For now.



>>>>But in September 2011, school administrators placed uncertified teachers — and a conga line of unemployed teachers who came for one-week stints — in classrooms filled with special education students, which is to say those children most in need of expert help.

This violated federal regulations.

Mr. Lirtzman, 56, decided to speak up. As he was not yet tenured, he stepped gingerly.

“I am NOT trying to cause problems,” he wrote in an e-mail to his assistant principal, but, he added, “we’re violating” court-mandated educational plans for students.

Mr. Lirtzman, unwittingly, became sand in the school’s gears.

He had received nothing but satisfactory evaluations. But in December, he said, the principal, Grismaldy Laboy-Wilson, said that she would not recommend him for tenure. The next day, she told him to leave immediately.

Mr. Lirtzman took his allegations to the Office of Special Investigations, an in-house unit at the Department of Education. An investigator asked for proof.

Mr. Lirtzman handed over 20 student programs, all of which showed that administrators placed students in classrooms with uncertified teachers. The investigator informed Mr. Lirtzman that these were confidential documents.

Now I am opening an investigation of you, she told him. It would be enough to bring a smile to the lips of Kafka.>>>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/nyregion/punished-for-helping-special-education-students.html?_r=1