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Schools Matter: Hawaii's Teachers Take a Stand: Take Your RTTT Bribe and Shove It

Schools Matter: Hawaii's Teachers Take a Stand: Take Your RTTT Bribe and Shove It:

Hawaii's Teachers Take a Stand: Take Your RTTT Bribe and Shove It

From Valerie Strauss at WaPo:
Public school teachers in Hawaii have rejected a contract that called for a move to a performance-based evaluation and compensation system, as required by the Race to the Top grant that the state won from the Obama administration.

The rejection comes shortly after Hawaii was warned by the U.S. Education Department that its $75 million Race to the Top grant had been put on “high-risk status” — the first state to be so sanctioned — because it had not moved quickly enough to implement specific reforms.

Sixty-seven percent of about 9,000 teachers, counselors and others represented by the Hawaii