Sunday, January 20, 2013  Mayor Bloomberg Hates Teachers Even
When It Hurts The Children.  The latest attack on New York City
teachers by Mayor Bloomberg has yet again cost the City a
minimum of $250 million dollars and possibly more.  The expected
budget shortfall will be felt by the schools who will probably
not be able to hire teachers to fill vacancies and result in
even larger class sizes, already the highest in the State.
According to the union, already 1,000 of the 3,500 teachers
hired this year have left the NYC schools and more can
reasonably be expected to leave.Was the mayor's action an
isolated act or is it something far more?  The answer is quite
simple to me.  The Mayor wants to break the teacher's union and
teacher "due process rights" and he will cost the City millions,
maybe even billions of dollars to achieve his goal.  Lets see
what the Mayor has done to attack NYC teachers and cost the City
a billion dollars or more in the process.  The Absent Teacher
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