Liberal Education At It's Finest

From the New York Daily News: The city will spend a whopping $29 million in 2013 on the salaries and benefits of outcast educators who are deemed too dangerous or incompetent to work in public school classrooms but cannot be fired, the Daily News has learned.
As of Friday, there were 326 city educators who have been reassigned away from the classroom yet were still collecting pay, a sharp rise from 2012, when 218 ousted teachers drained $22 million from city coffers, Education Department records show.
The teachers and school administrators are accused of abusing kids, breaking rules or just being lousy educators. But they’re still collecting salaries because of a controversial firing process that makes it too difficult to terminate bad employees, education officials charge.
Back in 2010, Mayor Bloomberg and the city teachers union agreed to eliminate the shameful “rubber rooms” that house these expensive educational pariahs, but critics say the only difference is that today the accused teachers are spread out in spare offices across the city instead of being herded together.
We still have rubber rooms,” said Francesco Portelos, an engineering teacher from Intermediate School 49 on Staten Island who has been reassigned away from the classroom for more than 17 months. “The only difference is we’re not being corralled anymore.”
Portelos has spent his time sitting on his hands while continuing to draw his salary of $75,000 as he’s investigated on a variety of charges, including misuse of school property. He says he’s innocent.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/city-spend-29m-paying-educators-fire-article-1.1477027#ixzz2gpvTFJ8e
Yep, nothing like these government schools spending taxpayer money wisely.