PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 With less than a month and a half before the start of the new school year, many Philly teachers still don\u2019t know what schools they should report to.<\/p>\n
While promises of city funding last month saved 340 classroom positions, many of those teachers are being shuffled to different schools. According to Philadelphia Teachers Union Chief of Staff LaShawna Coleman, communication from the school district has left staffers confused and frustrated, unsure of what grades or subjects they will be teaching and unable to prepare.<\/p>\n
Coleman said the district also didn\u2019t give a clear list of vacancies at schools during Zoom meetings with teachers this week. <\/p>\n
\u201cSome teachers were told, \u2018You\u2019re going back,\u2019 and they didn\u2019t choose to go back,\u201d she recounted. \u201cSome teachers were told, \u2018You\u2019re not going back,\u2019 when they said, \u2018Hey, I asked to go back to my school.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n
The process of matching teachers with schools is usually completed by June, though Superintendent Tony Watlington maintains administrators are moving as fast as possible. He said in a statement to KYW Newsradio that as of Wednesday night, 92% of teacher positions for the fall are filled \u2014 six points ahead of the district\u2019s pace at the same time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 With less than a month and a half before the start of the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,1998,233,3316],"class_list":["post-239635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-school-district-of-philadelphia","tag-schools","tag-teachers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}