Examiner Editorial: Tough teaching assignments get recognition San Francisco Examiner:
"San Francisco teachers will receive more money if they opt to work at one of the 25 lowest scoring schools in The City — instead of transferring to more easily controlled classrooms as soon as they build up enough seniority.
The San Francisco Unified School District incentive program pays teachers $2,000 more a year to remain in the more arduous assignments. There will also be an extra $2,500 bonus to teachers finishing their fifth year at hard-to-staff schools and $3,000 for completing eight years.
This largely symbolic monetary “carrot” could significantly help the district’s lowest achieving students. Educators have long understood that hard-to-staff schools have high turnover and are mostly taught by inexperienced teachers less skilled dealing with discouraged and somewhat unmotivated students."
"San Francisco teachers will receive more money if they opt to work at one of the 25 lowest scoring schools in The City — instead of transferring to more easily controlled classrooms as soon as they build up enough seniority.
The San Francisco Unified School District incentive program pays teachers $2,000 more a year to remain in the more arduous assignments. There will also be an extra $2,500 bonus to teachers finishing their fifth year at hard-to-staff schools and $3,000 for completing eight years.
This largely symbolic monetary “carrot” could significantly help the district’s lowest achieving students. Educators have long understood that hard-to-staff schools have high turnover and are mostly taught by inexperienced teachers less skilled dealing with discouraged and somewhat unmotivated students."