NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Daniel Webster Elementary and Trinity Elementary schools in New Rochelle were designated as “Reward Schools” in a recent statewide report released by the New York State Education Department (NYSED). In addition, all New Rochelle public schools and the district as a whole are considered to be in good standing.
Daniel Webster and Trinity are among only 29 schools in Westchester County and 250 statewide that qualify as “Reward Schools.” NYSED states, “Reward Schools are either schools that have made the most progress or schools that have the highest achievement in the state and do not have significant gaps in student achievement that are not being closed.” Daniel Webster received its designation as one of the highest performing elementary schools in the state while Trinity has been designated as a high progress school because the “school’s combined ELA and mathematics performance index places it among the top ten percent in the State in terms of gains between the most recent assessment data and the data from the prior year.”
“We are immensely proud of the educational achievements fostered by the hard work of the administration, faculty, students and parents of the Webster and Trinity school communities,” said Richard Organisciak, Superintendent of Schools. “Furthermore, the district is delighted to have all of our schools in good standing and we are deeply committed to building on our success going forward.”
For more information, click on the following link and then click on Reward Schools Identification Technical Documentation.
I guess all the schools have good tech facilitators…………
Humm… I can’t figure out what is going on and apparently neither can Mr. Cox. The Board cut the Technology Facilitator position at New Rochelle High School, ostensibly to save money and removed the person in that position for 15 years back into the classroom. This is the same person who apparently built the Technology Department in the NRSD from the ground up. After having this person summarily removed from the position that was her life’s work, her passion, where his or her dedication and achievements were admirable and impeccable, the Board suddenly, after a year, finds the funds to reinstate the position and hires a new and relatively inexperienced person as the technology facilitator at the high school. I guess they really did need a technology facilitator there after all!!! NEVER MIND THEY CUT THE LEGS RIGHT OUT FROM UNDER ONE OF THE MOST HARD WORKING AND DEDICATED EMPLOYEES IN THE DISTRICT. NO PROBLEM PLAYING GAMES WITH PEOPLE’S CAREERS AMONGST ALL THE CORRUPTION,MISMANAGEMENT,INEPTITUDE,INCOMPETENCE, FRAUD AND WASTE IN THE DISTRICT. I guess they just wanted their guy in there….the same guy that is still learning how to use e-chalk.
Here is a copy of my e-mail to Talk of the Sound dated September 14, 2012 to which I received no reply:
Hi: Below is a copy of an e-mail I sent you on March of 2012 and your response to that e-mail. You said that, “The technology facilitator
position at the high school was eliminated in the 2011-12 budget approved in May 2011.” You offered no reason or explanation as to why.Yet after one year they hired a new technology facilitator at NRHS. I
was wondering why? Do you have any idea?
DEAR BLABBY: Why is it that every school in New Rochelle has a full time, highly paid technology facilitator specialist except New Rochelle
High School? I have inquired with the district several times but cannot get any response. Any suggestions?
Confused in New Rochelle
DEAR CONFUSED: It only seems like every school in New Rochelle has a full time, highly paid technology facilitator specialist.Columbus, Trinity, Jefferson and Ward have full-time technology facilitators. Each of them have special “technology” related magnet
school or magnet overlay themes; technology instruction to students is a major part of their curriculum. . The technology facilitator position at the high school was eliminated in the 2011-12 budget approved in May2011.
As far as technology facilitators being “highly paid,” they are paid onthe same salary schedule as any other teacher covered under the F.U.S.E.
The annual budget process is underway. You can get a copy of the budget here. If you have questions, there is a community discussion period during each board of education meeting.
So Columbus, Trinity, Jefferson and Ward have full-time technology facilitators because they. are tech. schools. Barnard, Davis and Webster have
part-time technology facilitators. But NRHS, with the most students and faculty does not have a tech. facilitator because it is not a special “technology” related magnet school or have magnet overlay themes. I guess high school kids don’t need technology to be college and career ready!!!? I guess high school teachers don’t need training in technology? I guess the educators at NRHS are so good they all know how to seamlessly integrate technology into the classroom? Wasn’t this the same person who trained all the other tech. facilitators in the district? Wasn’t this the same person all the tech. facilitators ran to when they had a problem? I guess all that doesn’t matter!! At least for a year anyway since the position was miraculously restored, after removing the person in question and replacing that person with someone else. Why couldn’t they just hire a new teacher at the lowest step to save the money they apparently wanted to save. I smell a rat here. No I smell several rats…..all spineless manipulative administrators who had to remove someone from their position because that person was TOO GOOD and was a threat by making everyone else look like they actually are….all form and no substance
FUSE
It is the position of FUSE that NRHS have a tech. facilitator. Just not for one year I guess. Just not the one that was there for 15 years…..Just because something is not in the contract, such as a right of retension for that particular position, does not mean the Union should not at least put up the appearnce of a fight for what is best for the students of NRHS. What ever happened to the duty to represent and advoctae for a union paying member? What ever happened to fighting for a union memeber who was being manipulated and lied too? What ever happened to the union standing up to the adminstration when they clearly make a poor education decision to advance some kind of personal hidden agenda? Daly just rolls over a plays dead as he hides behind his desk and the contract. Wonder how much political capital he gained by doing that? Its dangerous when the administartion and the union “leader” are in bed together winking to the world as they screw not each other, but a union dues paying pawn in one of their game of deciet. What a joke all of them. so sad……