Posted on 06/14/2010 7:48:42 AM PDT by bs9021
Salary Rheeview
Bethany Stotts, June 14, 2010
Michelle Rhee and the Washington Teachers Union have reached a tentative union contract which “will boost the average annual salary of a D.C. educator from $67,000 to about $81,000 and gives the city’s public school teachers salaries comparable to those in surrounding suburban districts, according to a union survey,” according to the Washington Post.
In 2007 the Washington Post called the D.C. Public Schools system “among the highest-spending and worst-performing in the nation.”
The Washington Post reports that the tentative agreement (pdf) with the Washington Teachers Union
* redefines tenure as a due-process mechanism instead of “guarantee[ing]” of “lifetime employment,”
* launches a “voluntary performance pay program to begin this fall could add $20,000 to $30,000 to D.C. teachers’ salaries, based on significant improvement in student test scores and other yet-to-be specified criteria” and funded by private foundations,
* creates a new teacher evaluation system that will use growth in test scores as one benchmark,” and
* ends the practice by which displaced teachers are guaranteed spots within the school system; it adds a series of financial incentives.
“The [D.C. teacher] payday stands out amid a wave of deep school budget cuts across the country,” reported Bill Turque on June 3 for the Post. “New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said Wednesday, for instance, that his city will eliminate raises for its public school teachers and principals over the next two years to avoid deep job reductions.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...
heck, just pay them a million each and be done with it
No more poor teachers and the kids will all be academic all stars since money will be no problem- right?
sarc
it’s “for the children”...
The Enormous Cost of Public Unions
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2532762/posts
Study: States must fill $1 trillion pension gap
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35448576/ns/us_news-life
—nowhere is it more true than CA an NY. They are the models of our pending demise. don’t expect Statists in government to take any serious action .
http://www.pensiontsunami.com/public.php
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