The phrase "a reassignment center" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to job placement, military service, or organizational restructuring where individuals are assigned to new roles or locations.
Example: "After the company downsizing, employees were directed to a reassignment center to find new positions within the organization."
Alternatives: "job placement center" or "relocation center".
They were standing under a poster of the room's mission statement: "TRC" — Temporary Reassignment Center — "Is a Community".
The final episode, "Rubber Room" (which is to be broadcast on May 24), tips its hat to the current ado about New York City public school teachers' being warehoused for the school year in reassignment centers known as rubber rooms.
Afterward, Mr. Garabitos was told to report to a reassignment center on Friday rather than to the school, in the Morrisania section of the Bronx.
Still, Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration demoted me from principal to teacher, slashed my pay in half, and sent me to a rubber room, the DOE's notorious reassignment centers where hundreds of unwanted employees languish until they are fired or forgotten.
The stated rationale for the reassignment centers is unassailable: Get these people away from children, even if tenure rules require that they continue to be paid.
So Monday was the last day for the roughly 700 teachers and administrators spread among seven reassignment centers, where they were sent after being accused of transgressions as small as persistent tardiness and as serious as sexually harassing students.
Under the agreement, teachers the city is trying to fire will no longer be sent to the rubber rooms, known as reassignment centers, where the teachers show up every school day, sometimes for years, doing no work and drawing full salaries.
For years, the city used "rubber rooms" as paid reassignment centers for teachers waiting out disciplinary hearings.
But an officer who takes part in "rubber room" hearings, which deal with teachers being paid to out disciplinary hearings in reassignment centers, praised the system.
The city and teachers' union may have agreed to shut down the usage of "rubber rooms" -- reassignment centers for educators awaiting discipline hearings in 2010 -- but according to a new report, the city is still shelling out to idle teachers.
