UFT President Randi Weingarten appeared on the NY1 News program “Inside City Hall” on July 31 and spoke about the recent UFT member survey. Teachers said that Chancellor Joel Klein and the Department of Education need improvement, but Weingarten told host Dominic Carter, “Instead of sitting down with us and saying, ‘What can I do to listen to teachers more,’ they disparage it.”
“We believe in accountability, but we believe in 360-degree accountability,” Weingarten said. The Department of Education, she added, believes “in accountability that’s top to bottom. We say do bottom-to-top accountability, too.”
This echoed the statements that Weingarten made when she announced the results of the survey at a press conference at UFT headquarters on June 26.
In a short video clip [Real Player required] available on the NY1 News Web site, Weingarten explained that New York City teachers overwhelmingly feel they need more support from officials. “We took their learning survey — the same questions that they used for parents and teachers — and just substituted the word ‘chancellor’ in it. […] In a one-week time, 61,000 of the hundred thousand teachers answered this survey, far greater than any other response rate, and they said to the chancellor ‘You need improvement. You need to support us.’”
NY1 News is Time Warner’s 24-hour news channel in New York City.
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