NEW YORK – “No one during contract negotiations was representing students,” Staten Island father Sam Pirozzolo recently told the New York Post.

Most New York City parents and taxpayers likely will come to the same conclusion upon news of the city’s recently approved contract with the United Federation of Teachers union. The pact robs struggling students of roughly 150 minutes of weekly “small group” instruction and replaces it with “parent engagement” and “other professional work,” such as teacher training, the Post reports.

“I’m very disappointed,” Pirozzolo said. “I know the extended day worked. It worked for our son.”

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Ultimately, the new UFT contract gives teachers a nearly 20 percent raise over nine years but adds no instructional time to the school day.

Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg managed to extend the school day through union negotiations in 2005 in exchange for a 14.25 percent raise over 52 months. “It added 37.5 minutes of instruction for four days a week or Saturday instruction,” the Post reports.

But the newly crafted contract takes that time and devotes it instead to teacher training and parent visits. Education advocates contend both increased teacher training and parental outreach are important, but are disappointed that Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed to forfeit teaching time, according to the news site.

“How can they take away additional learning time when so many kids can’t read and write? Why must the children suffer? The mayor is clearly putting teachers first, not the children,” New York City Parents Union spokeswoman Mona Davids said. “Teachers can’t get training on their own time? Teachers have the summer off!”

The new contract is more about politics than it is about improving New York City’s education system. The UFT essentially refused to negotiate with Bloomberg for five years, then worked tirelessly to elect de Blasio to office with the obvious intention of “negotiating” a big payday with its chosen candidate. The tactic clearly paid off.

UFT “union chief Michael Mulgrew stood next to Mr. de Blasio in announcing a new contract and said he couldn’t ‘thank the mayor enough,’” the Wall Street Journal reports.

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“And no wonder. The deal includes an 8% retroactive raise plus a 10% cumulative bump from 2013 through 2018. The 19.5% compounded pay increase will boost the starting salary to $54,411 from $45,530 and the maximum to $119,565 from $100,049,” according to the WSJ. “Teachers will also get a $1,000 signing bonus for approving the contract that rewards their recalcitrance.”

Other bonuses negotiated into the contract include $5,000 retention bonuses for teachers at “hard-to-staff” schools, and $7,500 to $20,000 extra per year for teachers to serve in mentorship positions, the WSJ reports.

“These teachers must spend a mere 30 to 55 additional hours a year on duties like ‘demonstrating lessons’ and sharing ‘instructional best practices,’” according to the news site. “That works out to an hourly pay rate of $250 and $360.”

The bottom line: “… New York taxpayers will pay more for less teacher accountability and less reform. Mr. Mulgrew is getting what his campaign contributions paid for in electing Mr. de Blasio.”