This would crack the union like Humpty Dumpty.
There is a provision in the discussion that if you don’t want to ‘go green’ you can opt out of this. But how long will that last when someone in the red zone is teaching next to someone making 25k a year more?
You’re not familiar with how the public schools actually make decisions. Wherever tenure and workrules permit the majority of principals haveused their office to reward friends and supporters. Rhee, being a follower of Joel Klein, the Clintons’ favorite lawyer since he produced Foster’s suicide note,is trying to one up her mentor’s efforts in NYC. Once these rules are in place the very opaque nature of educational statistics could well make the DC school system look like a recreation of Andy Jackson’s Spoils System.And with no real improvement in the true education of the kids beyond knowing how to respond to an exam.