If Rhee can get this to go through it will be ground-breaking and may change the face of teacher contracts in both union and non-union districts.
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This would crack the union like Humpty Dumpty.
Teachers’ unions would let the scheme go through in order to get that big money. Then, once in, they would sue the daylights out of any district that denied teachers (especially women or minorities) new contracts once they’ve opted for “the green”.
Giving teacher more money to actually do their jobs the right way? Crazy.
And how would the loss of bumping privileges really affect the teachers? Public education isn't cyclical. It's not like a downturn in the stock market is going to lead to massive layoffs where such privileges would seriously come into play.
To me, it just looks like a sneaky way to slip in an absurd bonus structure.
Hrm. I am sort of on the wall about this one.
While I like the concept, it must be done on a case by case basis. For instance, I teach low performing students. If I raise scores of those students, I have really done something.
What about those who teach the consistently high performing? Do they get anything for that? I mean, most of those kids will be at the maximum point anyway, so there is no room for improvement and ipso facto, no performance raise.
Done correctly and more importantly, fairly, this could be a good thing. I would like to know up front and in writing what would be taken into consideration and such. There are a lot of mitigating factors going into something like this before I would sign off on it.
Knee-jerk reaction is to think ‘Oh Yeah! Stick it to them,” but there are too many things that can go wrong and a good teacher can be without a job.
It may be an attempt to weed out the capitalists and conservative teachers.
very interesting...
like shag, i am especially interested in the details yet to be determined. my primary special ed students can and have made great progress, but passing the sol’s that begin in the 3rd grade can be a very different story.
many years back i was the victim of bumping rights. i had worked as a teacher consultant for the early childhood programs in my district for 5 years but i had only been a teacher there for a total of 7 years. when it came time to cut a consultant position, i had lower seniority than another teacher who had taught there about 10 years but only one as a part time consultant. she took over the early childhood programs even though she had only worked with the upper elementary populations. seniority doesn’t always equal more qualified. i left the state.
I don’t think there will be too many takers that will relinquish tenure, although they ARE making it very tempting to do so.
Hey, I'd take that bet....and I think I'd win. ;-)