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Friday, November 11, 2011

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago principals say no to Rahm's "merit pay" scheme

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago principals say no to Rahm's "merit pay" scheme:

Chicago principals say no to Rahm's "merit pay" scheme

The mayor and his Broad Academy-trained CEO,J.C. Brizard, are trying to take a page from the Broad play book -- merit pay for principals.

But Rahm's divide-and-conquer strategies seem to be backfiring. I give him credit for one thing. He appears to have succeeded in doing what I thought couldn't be done -- uniting the city's teachers and principals against him and his top-down, corporate-style reform model.

First his attempted bribery of the city's elementary school teachers to g et them to abandon their union and surrender their own collective bargaining