DOE Teachers- did you hear the latest?

Eighty-two percent of us with parking permits will lose them.

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Randi sells us out again.

Message edited 8/27/2008 3:25:38 PM.

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She's too busy with her NEW job!

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THis is just ridiciolous. I work where there is parking but sometimes when I go to a workshop where there is no parking, I used it. I don't think we (teachers) are big abusers of the permit b/c if we parked anywhere then around school the police would probably still ticket us!

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SHE is absolutely USELESS and needs to be impeached!

Why does she care she is too busy having a great time in Denver at the DNC which I am sure our dues paid for!

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I'm really not too sure what to make of it, read what came in my e-mail about this situation.

There are a lot of rumors floating around regarding parking placards. Do not believe everything you hear and read. The Education Department was the only city agency not to lose parking spots, and that is because the UFT fought hard for its members from the moment the mayor first announced his intention to cut spaces. We filed a grievance and took the case to the Public Employees Relations Board (PERB), and we were the only ones to negotiate a parking agreement. The deal that the union and the city reached yesterday ensures that all on-street and off-street parking spots for schools have been preserved and presents an opportunity for an increase in the number of spots.

Teacher parking has always been a problem in New York City. There has never been enough. In the past, the Department of Education has sought to address this problem by increasing the number of permits without increasing the number of actual spots. This has created problems for neighborhoods and educators. Although I would rather the city not change the process right now, the agreement the UFT reached with the city continues the number of available spots and more closely aligns the number of placards with the number of spots. This brings the decision on who gets the placards to the school level where it belongs.

Under the agreement, the number of permits available to a school will be limited to the number of available spaces currently designated for parking by DOE personnel. The principal and chapter leader in each school will decide the distribution of these on-street and off-street placards, whether through assignment to individual people, pooling of placards for use each day (which could be on a first-come, first-serve basis), or some combination of those two methods. There is now an appeals process when the principal and chapter leader can’t agree as well as a way for the principal or chapter leader to appeal if they believe their school needs more parking spots. The city will also issue at least 1,000 additional parking placards for educators whose work requires them to travel between different schools.

Enforcement of the new system will begin Oct. 1. New placards will start to be issued at the beginning of the school year.

Please read the full agreement here.

Sincerely,


Randi Weingarten
UFT President

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Yikes.

I'm glad my school has two parking lots... in my old school, I'd have to park in a different borough!!

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I got the same e-mail. I don't think she sold us out, we're still getting our passes. I understand how school parking can cause a neighborhood problem. Before I had a pass, I lived on a block with an elementary school. Because I work in a HS with a split schedule, the first one being VERY early, I would get home around 2. Of course the elementary school was still in session for a couple more hours. I would have to circle endlessly looking for a spot in my neighborhood. It goes the other way too, I work in a residential, upper middle class neighborhood. My school is literally set among million dollar houses. The residents hate us. They put cones and garbage cans in front of their houses so that no one can park there. My car has been keyed (in the shape of a PENIS no less) and banged around so much. Because I work in a HS, a lot of the seniors drive and in the spring the juniors AND seniors drive. There is nowhere to park. I don't think that there is a viable solution to this problem; it's just a fact of life that I have become accustomed to. I also don't understand why the city would make such a big deal about our passes. They only entitle us to park around the perimeter of the school (or even less!)

Message edited 8/28/2008 7:19:34 PM.

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We have no DOE parking at me school...we all park on the street anyway, but I use it when I got to PD and workshops sometimes...ugh...***!