Newark Teachers Contract: Knowledge vs. Ignorance
Dr. Bruce Baker, professor of education and nationally recognized scholar on school finance, tweets about the Newark teachers contract:
Voting to accept a contract which bases compensation on an eval system that doesn't exist is, well, problematic!
From district (NPS) perspective, foolish as well. Can't determine budget impact of merit compensation w/o info on merit systm
Only basis they can use is to "assume" that only X% can get bonuses and that Y% must have salaries frozen (no increment)
As far as I can tell, unless far more details have been articulated, this one's a disaster from