Posted on 10/30/2009 9:09:52 AM PDT by raybbr
New Haven, increasingly a model city for the state, is about to begin an education experiment that could lead school reform efforts around the nation.
Teachers will be evaluated, at least in part, on how well students perform. Classroom teachers who struggle will be asssisted and bad ones may be given the boot. It's also possible teachers will get bonus pay if students perform well. Failing schools may close and new ones could open. The union will not be able to block school reforms.
And teachers, for a change, will play an active part in making decisions.
This isn't just happy talk: The city and the New Haven Federation of Teachers have signed a four-year contract, promising to make this happen.
So remarkable is this deal — negotiated over months of difficult, frank discussions — that top officials from the U.S. Department of Education and the American Federation of Teachers came to the city to praise the agreement this week, hoping that it will become a model in districts around the nation. School officials, not surprisingly, want the Obama administration to reward them handsomely for their work. This is a strong possibility.
Now for the good news:
The deal will bring teachers 3 percent annual raises in each ofthe next four years in addition to the automatic increases that come with each year of seniority.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
Yes, you read that right. They are going to get double raises and this guy thinks it’s a model for the nation.
can anybody say “grade inflation”?
From the city that brought us the New Haven 20.
I was duped by the first few paragraphs, until I saw the pay increases.
They will promise ANYTHING to get the pay increases, and then afterwards whine that it is so unfair to make them actually produce results.
Oh an you cannot fire a teacher thats just so wrong- don’t you care about students? why should teachers be evaluated on how students perform? Why do you hate teachers???
We know they will do this, because what they have promised is exactly what “No Child Left Behind” act was supposed to do, and which they have been bitching about since it was enacted.
One of the TRUE and CORRECTLY NAMED laws (unlike the Orwellian names for other laws) “No child left behind” meant to ensure that ...um... no child was left behind.
If true, they got one thing right...
2006-07
1. California $63,640
2. Connecticut $61,039
3. New Jersey $59,730
4. New York $59,557
5. Rhode Island $58,420
6. Illinois $58,275
7. Massachusetts $58,178
8. Maryland $56,927
9. Michigan $55,541
10. Pennsylvania $54,977
My question would always be what is the performance being compared against? If it’s compared to a cirriculum that is liberal propaganda and not an objective teaching of the facts than it’s still not helping the students.
All schools have to pass standardized tests since NCLB, it’s probably based on those scores
"Hello, dear? I'm coming home early after I stop at U-Haul. Call the utilities and have everything disconnected. Pack three days' worth of clothes for both of us, and our prescriptions. We're outta here at midnight."
How nuts is this? I thought the first part was the good news. Apparently having standards and holding teachers to the standards is a bad thing?
will there be a REAL dimissal process or will it be a bogus costs too much dimissal process.
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