Assistant Principals placed in the ATR Pool by the NYC Department of education were often experienced and at the top levels of their salary.
Placing Assistant Principals in the ATR Pool was also done to force senior supervisors to early retirement, allowing the NYC Department of Education to get new supervision at lower cost.
[2] The term is used today in the New York City Department of Education to describe teachers who wound up on ATR status for the above stated causes.
However in New York City, principals are in charge of their own budgets, so a person at the top of the pay scale is undesirable even if highly effective and qualified.
Many current teacher vacancies are posted on the New York City Department of Education's Open Market website.
Several hundred assistant principals excessed from their administrative positions in the New York City Department of Education are also rotate to different schools in ATR status.
Any ATR teacher who misses two interviews without just cause will be considered to have resigned, and will be terminated without due process or the usual Education Law §3020-a proceeding of charges.
A fundamental part of due process and Education Law §3020-a hearings was that charged teachers possessed the absolute right to cross-examine witnesses against them and present a defense if they wished.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stated he trusted principals to judge whether to keep teachers assigned from a pool of rotating substitutes or send them back.