How did this D75 school end up with performance pay?
The New York Times earlier this week reported on the New Americans Academy, a 2nd year District 75 school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, that will eventually be K-5. The Times article focused on the Academy’s use of a modified open classroom.
But in a throw-away line they indicated that there had been a huge modification to our contract:
They found a space in an elementary school three blocks from Mr. Waronker’s [the principal - jd] home in Crown Heights, and in a special deal with the teachers’ union, he won the right to pay
