NYC DOE PRINCIPAL EMMANUEL POLANCO - MAJOR SCANDAL ROCKS THE NYCDOE BILINGUAL TEACHER RECRUITMENT PROGRAM FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
Currently, 19 Dominican teachers are shacked up in the Bronx at three rooming houses run by the Association of Dominican American Supervisors and Administrators — a fraternal group of DOE principals and other employees. Currently, 19 Dominican teachers are shacked up in the Bronx at three rooming houses run by the Association of Dominican American Supervisors and Administrators — a fraternal group of DOE principals and other employees.
Except for the married couple who share a room, each person pays $1,350 to $1,450 a month for individual rooms, while sharing a kitchen and bathroom. They use Zelle, a banking app, to pay their rent to ADASA treasurer and DOE administrator Daniel Calcaño, sources said.
Amid a widening scandal over the Dominican teacher program, the DOE removed Polanco, first vice president of ADASA, from MS 80 this month. Last week, three members of ADASA’s executive board — Polanco, Calcaño and Jay Fernandez — abruptly booted Socorro Diaz, the organization’s president.
In late October, one teacher who told Savery she was seeking less costly living arrangements soon received a letter from Marianne Mason, executive director of the Cordell Hull Foundation for International Education — a New York-based group that sponsors teachers’ visas. The letter stated that her visa had been canceled and she had two days to leave the US, sources said.
As authorities began investigating allegations that ADASA intimidated the newcomers and possibly profited off the rentals, the same teacher received another letter from Cordell Hull this month telling her, without explanation, she could return to her job.
Savery — one of the Dominican teachers’ main points of contact — “disappeared” after the investigation started, they said.
NYC principal’s wife rakes in cash from Dominican teachers paying steep rent
Department of Education this fall that brought 25 teachers from the Dominican Republic to teach bilingual education in city schools. Ten were assigned to MS one of the teachers assigned to MS 80, charging that she was being forced by Polanco to pay about $1,800 to rent a single room, or lose her visa.
11 Dominican teachers were housed by ADASA, the Association of Dominican-American Supervisors and Administrators
- The DOE has obtained emails in which the principal verbally abused one or more of the teachers
- On Oct. 29, Polanco reportedly held a meeting with many of the teachers, telling them not cooperate with the probe
- One of the teachers went back to the Dominican Republic because of the threat
Ongoing story:
The NYPOST
By Susan Edelman and Georgia Worrell
November 12, 2022 8:21am Updated
The Post
By Georgia Worrell and Susan Edelman
November 19, 2022 6:47pm Updated
Bilingual teachers brought from the Dominican Republic to work in New York City public schools have been treated like indentured servants by educators acting as their slumlords, The Post has learned.
The city Department of Education announced with great fanfare in September that it had hired 25 bilingual Dominican teachers to work with Spanish-speaking students. But the program is now embroiled in accusations that the foreigners have been controlled and intimidated by a group of DOE administrators profiting as their landlord.
(2021) - 22% of city students spoke Spanish as their first language. Nearly 14% were learning English as a second language.
Comments
Post a Comment