Late last week District of Columbia Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee reached a tentative agreement with Washington Teachers Union President George Parker and American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten on a long-awaited new contract for DCPS teachers (entire
.pdf here). Among
other things, the two-years-in-the-making agreement would establish a small performance pay plan and new “professional development centers” and created new options for excessing teachers. In addition to making salary increases retroactive, it also would create an entirely new salary schedule.
Base salary schedules are determined entirely by years of experience and education credentials, and they set the base salary for every teacher in the district. Any performance pay would be in addition to these amounts, but there are no details yet on how much those supplemental payments might be. They’re certainly going to amount to far less money than a teacher’s base salary.
The chart below shows what base salaries would look like for DCPS teachers in 2009-10 (this chart and the ones
