By Kate Pastor
kpastor@riverdalepress.com
Philip Scharper has officially resigned from his post as principal at PS 24.
The announcement was made by Interim Acting Principal Deidre Burke at the school’s parents’ association meeting last night. It comes more than two weeks after Mr. Scharper was sent to the “rubber room,” where educators await the outcome of Department of Education investigations.
The resignation creates a formal vacancy and will allow the C-30 process for finding his replacement to begin after June 16, according to Department of Education spokeswoman Ann Forte.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
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Maybe now we can cancel the idiotic G&T program that overcrowds PS24?
While I agree with your implication that a top-flight gen ed program has to remain the foundation and the focus of 24, blaming the G&T program for overcrowding is off-base. It's just one class per grade, and 35-50% of each G&T class is comprised of kids zoned for 24 anyway. I don't think the district G&T programs are all they're cracked up to be, but they're a rare example of the DOE actually listening to parents, so the program deserves our support almost on that basis alone.
If you want to do something about overcrowding, you look at the fact that 20% of the total student population at 24 consists of out-of-zone students receiving special ed services. No offense to anyone involved, but that's just insane. And maybe do an audit of in-zone students to make sure everyone's actually living where they say they are.
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